So, my party went toe to toe with an Adult Black Dragon tonight. Epic fight!
And now they want to harvest the body because, as every adventurer knows, dragon hide makes good armor and their horns and teeth and all of that are good reagents.
Everybody knows that... but I have never read any rules on how to go about harvesting those things from a dragon.
So, does anybody know of rules for that? Or have any advice on how to adjudicate it?
Skills for harvesting?
Anything more interesting than “x GP worth of dragon hide?”
It all depends on your encounter budget and how much wealth you want to give the PC's. You could give them X GP worth of related magic item crafting materials. I have no issues giving my players a little extra gp if someone has devoted skills to crafting (reward for skill) same as someone who has high Survival for the "harvesting" Also I'd do up 4 tyres of what they can get based on their skill lvl: 0-10% for untrained, 11-25% for trained, 26-40% expert, 41-75% for Master, 76-100% for legendary. So for example a Level 11 Permanent Item is worth 1400GP so As stated the DC is 28 for survival. I'm guessing the party is around 9-11th lvl so average trained survival should be 11-15, expert 12-17, master 14-19 and they shouldent have legendary. Success at whatever skill lvl gleans that % ie trained success harvests 11-25% of 1400GP (to make it eazy I'd go with the high values so 25% of 1400GP or 350GP. A crit success gives GP at the next training value so if a trained person crit succ the role he gets expert % or 40% of the value and so on.
None of this is official but it makes sense to me. I would allow other players to use aid other actions with survival and or skills such as Arcana/Occult/Religon. Try to include everyone if you can, have fun with it. Oh I'd also give a circumstance bonus for taking their time up to +3 (+1 per day) but after 5 days it would start to rot (unless some extra percautions were taken loosing up to 50% of the "harvested" value at 10% per day starting on the 5th. So after 10 days they only get 50% of whatever GP amount they harvested.