Halbarad wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:00 pm
I wonder if the title might be metaphorical and that though there might be an actual Dragon in it, it’s more about the corrupting influence that Smaug has left behind and the effect that it has on the development of Dale and it’s relations with Erebor.
I started reading the Lake-Town supplement the other day and I shuddered when I read this on page 13.
"Gold pieces are very valuable and rare - the majority of those that are seen in Dale, Erebor or Lake-town come from the treasure of Smaug, and most people show some propensity to hoard them and put them away."
I got shivers. The entire economy of an entire region, based on coins from a hoard upon which a great dragon has brooded for upwards of 200 years...
...what could go wrong?