Wolfswift
2022-04-01, 10:54 AM
So... I'm getting ready to have my party come up against a notorious bandit clan hiding in an enormous forest, but they have a secret the party will discover at their first encounter them... They're actually green dragons. Most of which are young or younger as the parents have only been "active" for the last two and half decades or so. Also I know dragons don't normally stay together as large family units often and green dragons don't normally have the change shape ability, they're actually third party Taninim Draconic Heroes of various classes from In the Company of Dragons Expanded by Rite Publishing. I'm just running them as special dragons.
But anyhow, they'll have scouts guarding their forest and using guerrilla tactics against invaders. However most of the party has goggles of true sight and will see them as large dragons, however, do the dragons take a negative to stealth since the true seers see them larger than their current shape is? If they have equipment in humanoid form, true seeing can't see through solid objects, so... Would thier equipment seem out of place on their humanoid frame inside the apparent large dragon? I'm imagining they just see large dragons with occasional glimpses of the medium humanoid frame of equipment inside which is swinging at them and the true seers may get a negative to hit the dragons as they're aiming at a large creature they see that is actually medium currently? My imagining is this looks like a glitchy video game using the wrong size model for an enemy. This feels wrong, but I don't know how it should be...
I'm okay with the party pulling back the curtain on this secret almost immediately, they were meant to discover it anyhow and it just means the dragon family can jump straight to all natural and breath weapons and such immediately. I just don't know how true seeing actually works when perceiving larger body than a foe physically currently is. My inclination is to say they see the current physical appearance, but with a transparent ghostly form of their true shape around them. Which is not something stated in true sight...
Unrelated note, true seeing can't see possessed people's possessers somehow, right? The person is solid and real, so a ghost inside them can't be seen somehow by true seeing, right? (Our world has a chromatic dracolich God, so necromancy is preferred to devout dragons, they may have prisoners being used as meat shields by calling ghosts to possess them)
But anyhow, they'll have scouts guarding their forest and using guerrilla tactics against invaders. However most of the party has goggles of true sight and will see them as large dragons, however, do the dragons take a negative to stealth since the true seers see them larger than their current shape is? If they have equipment in humanoid form, true seeing can't see through solid objects, so... Would thier equipment seem out of place on their humanoid frame inside the apparent large dragon? I'm imagining they just see large dragons with occasional glimpses of the medium humanoid frame of equipment inside which is swinging at them and the true seers may get a negative to hit the dragons as they're aiming at a large creature they see that is actually medium currently? My imagining is this looks like a glitchy video game using the wrong size model for an enemy. This feels wrong, but I don't know how it should be...
I'm okay with the party pulling back the curtain on this secret almost immediately, they were meant to discover it anyhow and it just means the dragon family can jump straight to all natural and breath weapons and such immediately. I just don't know how true seeing actually works when perceiving larger body than a foe physically currently is. My inclination is to say they see the current physical appearance, but with a transparent ghostly form of their true shape around them. Which is not something stated in true sight...
Unrelated note, true seeing can't see possessed people's possessers somehow, right? The person is solid and real, so a ghost inside them can't be seen somehow by true seeing, right? (Our world has a chromatic dracolich God, so necromancy is preferred to devout dragons, they may have prisoners being used as meat shields by calling ghosts to possess them)