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Lol my first character was a cleric of Tiamat. My DM and I worked out a blend of PHB domains so that I had appropriate cantrips, spell unlocks and CD's. It was a lot of fun playing through the Rise of Tiamat with her, haha 🐉
Oh that sounds pretty awesome! HotDQ/RoT was the first experience I had with DnD and I was the DM, I couldn't escape constant thoughts that
-There were no dragonborn in the module
-There were barely any dragons in the dragon cult
But that said the module does still have some good concepts! Your cleric, were they helping Tiamat achieve her goals? I'd love to hear more, if they were a pro-dragon adventurer.
Interesting, I had the opposite impression regarding the number of dragons. RoT was part of a longer campaign that is still going on, and I always find myself struggling to put another dragon into the game because we already had so many of them, lol.
Overall I loved our time with RoT, picking only some of the cooler given missions and substituting the others with some stuff I had written up myself. So they got to fight a beholder (Xanathar) in its natural environment (Waterdeep) when they had an appropriate level to make the encounter a challenge. Also giving them the chance to obtain the White Wyrmspeaker Mask that had found its way to Xanathar‘s Guild.
Sadly, the module offered no possibility to interact with both Severin and the possible ally faction of giants before the final fight. Solution: Diplomatic showdown to convince a cloud giant of their respective cause. Along with a full-grown battle in the dorms.
Mammon saving the PCs‘ asses from a green dragon following a pact made in a swamp cleared for refugees; the Black Wyrmspeaker as a double-agent who tried to overtake the Cult… God, I loved those ten months. I even got to use the labyrinth from Xonthal‘s Tower at a later point in the campaign because it didn‘t go with our very own version of RoT.