One thing I’ve noticed reading some of the 1st and second edition books I already own from bookstores is that most AP’s seem to include at least one dragon encounter somewhere within the adventure’s course.
Is this deliberate? Regardless- me like very much.
Whenever one is introduced to a new game there can be a lot of alien ideas for new players to grapple with.
But they often perk up at the mention of ‘dragon’.
Extinction Curse doesn't have any proper dragons, though the last installment has two separate encounters with linnorms. It does, however, have a whole lot of dinosaurs.
Huh. Fair. I didn’t know that.
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We don't intentionally try to include at least one dragon in every Adventure Path, but we DO try to make sure the ones we DO include are not just rando monsters in a room. One thing I learned very early on during my time working on Dungeon Magazine is that folks really get frustrated when dragons appear in adventures and aren't an important part of the plot, so ever since, when I include dragons in an adventure, I try to make sure they have a personality and story role and are at least load bearing to the adventure in some way. Which does result in them not appearing in large numbers but also results in them being things I "program" into the outlines early on, more so than most other monsters.
So while we don't intentionally try to get one in every Adventure Path, we do usually try to curate their appearances more deliberately, even before we hire an author for the adventure.
We don't intentionally try to include at least one dragon in every Adventure Path, but we DO try to make sure the ones we DO include are not just rando monsters in a room. One thing I learned very early on during my time working on Dungeon Magazine is that folks really get frustrated when dragons appear in adventures and aren't an important part of the plot, so ever since, when I include dragons in an adventure, I try to make sure they have a personality and story role and are at least load bearing to the adventure in some way. Which does result in them not appearing in large numbers but also results in them being things I "program" into the outlines early on, more so than most other monsters.
So while we don't intentionally try to get one in every Adventure Path, we do usually try to curate their appearances more deliberately, even before we hire an author for the adventure.
That makes a lot of sense.
I always did feel Belshallam and Zarmangarof were odd in a CotCT campaign that never did feature it’s biggest draconic baddie: Kazavon
Spoilers:
Edit: unless the party *drastically* fails.