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I'm starting a new campaign and I was thinking of giving my players a newly hatched baby dragon in the start of the campaign. I think it would be cool if when it's grown a bit that they can have it as a mount/"pet" but it'll probably be a bit overpowered. What are your thoughts on the idea and do you have any suggestions on how I could maybe nerf the dragon not to make it super over powered to have a dragon as a pet (they would be around 4th level when they get the dragon and it wouldn't be grown enough to ride or use in combat until maybe 8-10th level).

The setting for the campaign is a world I've created hence why if I go with giving them a dragon I'll homebrew it so that dragons mature a lot quicker and I'll just motivate it with some of the other weird stuff that happens in the world. So yeah I'm aware that it would otherwise take a few hundred years to mature.

NathanS
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    Keep in mind that dragons are intelligent beings, and most of them are as smart as adult humans from the moment they hatch. – nick012000 Dec 03 '19 at 09:27
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  • Are your players going to be spending 200+ years from level 4 to 8-10? – Theik Dec 03 '19 at 09:52
  • @Theik According to this, it would only be about 5 years, assuming we're going from Wyrmling ("baby") to Young (Large creature, i.e. a mount) – NathanS Dec 03 '19 at 10:01

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