GM's Perspective

While dragons have always been an integral part of the game, with the coming of 3rd edition Dragons are now, much more than ever, less an encounter for the characters and more a part of the setting that surrounds them. With a host of skills, feats, special abilities & spells, creating a dragon for use in game is much more related to creating another character.

All right, Game Masters and Game Mistresses, let's talk morale. Here's what happened: I was in my local gaming store last week, browsing, when I happened to overhear a game in progress at one of the game tables. It was obviously a random encounter:

the PC party was being mugged in a nasty part of a town somewhere.