aside from threatening you with violence, what other, more subtle ways could a dragon have to inspire fear in humans?
aside from threatening you with violence, what other, more subtle ways could a dragon have to inspire fear in humans?
aside from threatening you with violence, what other, more subtle ways could a dragon have to inspire fear in humans?
Making shit threads day after day.
are you implying that dragons are posting on teegee?
It's got to get awfully boring in those caves. Gotta find some way to amuse ourselves, and playing with the quality of an entire board seems a simple yet mildly entertaining experience.
/tg/ is a garbage pit though.
Dragons are attracted to gold, not steaming liquid shit smeared with autism.
Hold a grudge to your family for generations. Force you to strike a shitty deal and then make it shittier just to spite you. Eat your wife's leg so she can't go outside and you will always hear her complaining, leave your local hero burnt and scarred to wander the town and terrify the peasants...
It's a big-ass firebreathing dragon. Why is it trying to be subtle?
threatening you physically is something that any big simpleton could do. So a dragon, in all of its pride, may want to have more intricate means of keeping its victims under control to establish dominance on ALL levels
Threaten your access to financial services because he controls the largest supply of gold for thousands of miles and has the means of punishing people who give you access.
Banker Dragons? We doing that again?
When are you going to stop avatar posting
An up to date genealogical chart and a little knowledge of necromancy.
Elaborate please
Use their master level skill in magic to take human form and spend years infiltrating human society and creating gangs of outlaws that for him. Cults that worship him, politicians that will bend over backwards to have a being as ferocious and powerful as a dragon as an ally. And then at a moments notice can nudge or command any one of them to do his or her bidding. Can do it mentally via magic from a great distance as well because once more (And I hate that so many people never consider this) dragons are fricking amazing at magic, not just le fire breath
*Work for him
Mark the borders of their territory by melting a few mountains or something.
This is actually not a bad idea.
Incredible displays of power by changing the landscape.
Also, controlling armies of minions.
Or incredible showings of intellectual might, to prove that they are as deadly with their minds as they are with their bodies.
Or just being a living thermonuclear device, that ought to do it.
Sex.
Multi kilometer long dragon would have huge sexual organs, which even with magic would be too large to attend, and pelvis crushing or intense suction forces are serious problems.
it can buy your land and all your relatives land and force you to live homeless in the gutter
Like that
dont make me post the gif
please post
Dew it
If they're powerful mages a Dragon could coerce a nation by casting spells to prevent rainfall. Not giving my share? It's going to be a lean year and if you keep it up we'll see how the nation deals with a decade long drought.
Occasionally coming by and performing a good deed that would take the humans months of prep work.
Don't ask for payment, just say that its not a big deal for you and they were struggling.
Re-route a river to help irrigate their crops.
Melt an entire pile of iron ore into molten soup in moments
Casually lift a wagon so it can be fixed
Fricking obliterate a bandit camp in seconds.
Then, every once in a while, block someone's path for no fricking reason.
Don't even say anything.
Just block someone from walking down the street.
Let them see just how powerless they are to stop you from doing something so incredibly petty.
Never bring it up again.
Every time you do something nice for them they will have in the back of their minds just how quickly that power can be turned against them.
>giving an entire country of people a Lex Luthor complex
Damn dragons
to turn their legacies into lies.
brave heroes remembered as bandits, if they're remembered at all. Family fortunes built on the backs of adventures burned away one disaster at a time
Threats like that only work their wonders on the wicked. The bravest heroes will gladly vanish into nothing if to safeguard others from disaster.
>What more is my own name over another's?
Big Frickoff Dragon flies down lands in a field grabs a cow and starts eating it. Imagine if a 50ton lion just popped out and stared eating something would you frick with it?
Getting away with fiscal fraud.
Host a lavish party where the dragon displays their enormous wealth and strength.
Randomly give life changing gifts/assistance to people that are on their good side.
Make it known that they keep a book of groodges, occasionally show up and showily cross out writing in it when something bad happens to someone.
Give dragonback rides to a person's children while they think over a proposal.
Hire singers, poets, and people close to the fallen to sing of the impressive exploits of the would-be dragon slayers they've defeated before.
they randomly invade homes at night
The dragon invites the wizard of the group to a nice game of chess-equivalent. When they arrive at the rendez-vous, the dragon seems sincerely in a hurry and sorry, they actually have something to take care of. BUT they will still play : they randomly determine who gets the black or white pieces, and consequently choose from two small piles of papers.
As they explain, when it should be their turn, return the top note of the pile, read the instructions on it, move their piece accordingly and put the used note aside. As a penalty for their lack of presence and politenesses, if at any point the instructions on the notes stop being possible and rule-legal, consider they have lost. And they fly away in a hurry.
INT vs INT opposed roll.
If the dragon wins, it seems that they predicted exactly how the game would go, including the point when you decide to do some random shit to throw away the algorithm, and what it would be, leading to a check-mate. The dragon drops back down at this moment, thanks the player for their courtesy and the good game, long had they had to push themself like this against a humanoid.
If you win… essentially same thing, but you actually manage to throw away the predictions and break the chain of instructions and so win by special rule. But it still went far too long for comfort for you to manage to do something that wasn’t long predicted. The dragon drops down sometimes later and says pretty much the same thing.
On an exceptional success, you manage a check-mate without breaking the chain of predictions. Still unnerving how you got played for so long but you managed. The dragon drops down later, starts their courteous speech, actually looks at the state of the game and visibly goes "wait, what ? How ?".
Threatening rape
Swoop down on the ruler's castle and give him a long hard look. Show him and everyone else in view you're big enough to just walk on their strongest, most impressive defensive structure, bypassing everything, and that you can easily take him and anyone else you want.
Got magic powers? The kingdom is having a succession crisis, big father king is dead and his kids are fighting amongst themselves? No worries, you're here to help. His corpse is probably not that well guarded in this time of need, nab it and revive it, if it's true revival - great! He is your servant now, immortality for loyalty. If it's a necromancer zombie type of revival, what better way to teach the new kids what a dragon is capable of than parading around the true ruler and their inevitable fate?
Crime bosses and greedy or old rich merchants and lords are way more easily influenced and threatened then others. They are also a good, reliable source of gold. Make then your servants by providing a service only dragons can provide, whether it's dragon-magiced immortality or youth, or physical force to take out their competitors and enemies. Have them establish an early warning system, in case any a group of adventurers or king plots against you, to tell you of the incoming threat. Make it clear to them that you can take what you give them at any moment, by making an example out of one of them. If you need some humans threatened, have them do the job instead of you.
He could want a re-evulation of your tax?