Dragons of the Pact Worlds

[Belabras]

This week we take a look at how dragons fit into the Pact Worlds setting. How have you used dragons in your Starfinder game?

[Metaphysician]

I had an arc in my Starfinder game where the players were tracing the Villain Organization of the Game to Triaxus. They ended up fighting some terrorists who were trying to set off a hot war between dragons and not-dragons.

In general? Dragons are people. Very very powerful people, but still people. . . and not as untouchably powerful as they used to be. Sure, a dragon is a big and powerful, but so is a star cruiser, or a tank brigade. Which is why all but the most ancient and epicly-powerful dragons tend to tie themselves into social structures in some way. Unless your CR is significantly north of 20, you either are obeying laws set out by someone else, or setting out laws to be obeyed by others. . . usually that latter one way or another.

[Dargoth876]

I have yet to really use dragons in my games for other thing as an encounter, such as

in adventure path:

Pazzoedioth in the Starstone Blockade (Devastation Ark part 2/3).

I have also Zenniledie as a patron of a charter, not the one of my players. It is pretty limited.

I agree with Metaphysician, dragons are people in social structures. In the Drakeland of Triaxus, when the highest autority are great wyrm living more than a thousands years, every boss figure are younger dragons trying to impress their own boss. Younger dragons don't have a lot of capacity to make itself its own place in a world. It is not as easy for them to hitchhike into another world either, but young Triaxus dragons could bargain for a transport offworld.

Other than that, there is a difference in the thinking process of the dragon depending on its age. Dragons younger than the Gap will act as a normal creature (or normal boss with a bad attitude). Dragons a bit older will have an attitude similar to elves from Castrovel, not remembering their past but having the impression to have been cheated somewhere. The older ones will say that the Gap did not affect them as much as the lesser races; part of this comes from them being very powerfull creature, so their place is "obvious", and they have the power to invent the truth they want.