On top of that old dragons in disguise meddling with human society make good NPCs... which the players will not find out until much later. So even when they meet Dragons -even ones not antagonistic- early on they will rarely realize it...

>Cthulhu: "Wasaaaaaaaaaaaaap!" Definitely one of the Great Old Ones.

Not always the best, but often a lot of fun

Blame it on two year old Cindy Gygax who picked the name out of a few choices.

This implies the existence of incompetent dragons and I really want my DM to have us fight one

This sounds an awful lot like a story Gary made up to cover for his mistake /s

There's pseudodragons and whelps that can easily be low level encounters. I threw a green dragon and a bunch of flying kobolds at my level 3 party and they easily won the fight.

Supposedly some sources in the past claimed his wife made the pick, but wiki says it was his daughter. Given how many variants I've seen over the years to avoid a copyright, it seems a good choice. Even became well known for the name by people who didn't understand it, like Jack Chick readers.

Did anyone die in character creation?


You made me realize Balder's Gate 3 does in fact contain ample dungeons and even multiple dragons.

It really depends on who your DM is. I have not yet played a campaign without either dungeons or dragons. A gold dragon is typically the one giving us quests, which requires delving into dungeons.

Truly worthy of GotY

Protect that DM at all costs. They truly understand what it means to create a D&D campaign

Oddly enough, they're pretty much the only Steam friend I still have that reguarly comes online other than my sister. It's the other 3 players that have fallen off the face of the earth that keeps us from playing again

.........ngl I've been looking for a campaign to join 0_o Just saying

 Dragon Delves exists, it is, I believe 12 different dragon focused adventures for levels 1-12. I recently ran a group of high school kids through The Shattered Obelisk Phandelver and Below, which has a dragon in it. The group kept avoiding the area with it. I finally had it make an appearance to save their bacon.

I play dragons like "vainqueur the dragon" aka very full of themselves and won't actually listen to anything the players say. Its hilarious because its made to frustrate the playersvas much as possible. Getting a dragon to do anything is a monumental task. MINNON!

That sounds like a job for Readied Actions! (Our DM tried that with the dragon at the end of Icespire Peak, but fortunately my character had a spell that grounded flying enemies and it failed its save. Dragons aren't nearly as bad when you know they're coming and have an entire module to build your character towards fighting them. Surprise dragons are still a nightmare though!)

Off the top of my head: - Cast Fly yourselves or purchase/*acquire* some boots of flying - Elemental resistance or immunity vs the element of dragon's breath you expect to be meeting, from the Protection From Energy spell or from equippable gear - If you're confident in your spell save DC, Hold Monster is a fun one to cast on any flying creatures - buy a bow and arrow - better yet, buy a ballista and a mule to tow it around - buy a couple dozen health potions that you chug furiously on the rounds that you aren't being breath-attack-strafed - have the fighter make consecutive grapple checks to [Los Tiburon the dragon into the fucking dirt](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDGreentext/comments/2xx8jj/the_tale_of_los_tiburon_xpost_from_rgreentext/) There are a lot of ways to deal with this, you just have to get creative and maybe set yourselves a short side quest or two to acquire what you need for the real job. Half of the above suggestions can be accomplished by a single tactically minded cleric, and no arcane caster worth his salt isn't going to know how to fly by level five, wizards that can't fly generally don't live very long and sorcerors that can't fly don't get laid.