The dragon is terrorizing the kingdom

Sounds like a campaign to me!

>Princess asks wizard if there is anything he can do

>wizard magically transforms himself into copy of princess and hides princess as a commoner

>proceeds with marriage

> a week later, dragon has bailed on marriage, left kingdom and sworn never to involve himself with humans again

>wizard restores princess, she thanks him and asks him what he did to frighten off a dragon while disguised as her

>wizard only smiles and winks, saying the only magic he used was the disguise

>he departs without another word

>princess notices her chambermaids look at her funny now

It is now!

The question of the day is whether this is one of those types of monarchies where if you merry into royalty you become just a consort and never have anything more than ceremonial power, or does the dragon get to wear the metaphorical pants in the family?

Of course he'd just be marrying in at the same level as the princess so he doesn't even get any real benefits out of this beyond presumably the dragon has been watching her from afar all this time and razing all those peasants just to garner attention from her?

Kind of cute, I guess.

>PC's given the task of serving the dragon
>Unsure of the proper procedures, they visit the library and read up on a book titled, "How to Serve Dragons"
>Delicious barbeque ensues
>Despite vanquishing the dragon, PC's are sentenced to prison for gorss violation of the dragon's right to due process.

>dealing with stiff
Well yes the dragon did cheat death. BRING ON THE MARUTS!

>The Dragon conquers a small city-state and makes the populace crown him King prior to the marriage so he can claim Royal Blood.

>PCs kill the dragon
>turns out the princess was totally fine with the deal
>claims the dragon was actually a very tender soul who wrote the most lovely poetry about how his love for her was like the undying flames consuming a peasant hut
>turns out the military was fine with it because nobody would fuck with even a small country with a dragon for a king
>turns out the landed gentry were fine because the dragon was a very judicious landlord and the country's finances had never been better handled as only a gold obsessed lizard could manage
>nobody cares what the peasants think either way

Well shit, that's another kingdom we're no longer allowed in.

>the princess was totally fine with the deal
>the military was fine with it
>turns out the landed gentry were fine

Then how did they get a plot hook to kill the dragon?

I'm pretty sure a dragon can turn inevitables into scrap.

A. murderhobos need no excuse to murder anyone, including hobos
B. isn't there already one present? Most people hearing about a princess initially wanting a dragon dead and the dragon managing to take over the kingdom would drawn their own conclusions - the problem is it turns out it had already been worked out satisfactorily before the PCs went a slaying.

A wise old [s]quest giver[s] man in a bar tells them the sad tale of the princess forced to marry a wicked dragon and hints at the sizable financial renumeration that would be given to those who slayed the fiend and freed the kingdom.

The wise old [s]quest giver[s[ man is, of course, really the evil vizier in disguise using the PC's as part of his sudden but inevitable betrayal as he attempts to gain the throne for himself.

So long as the marriage isn't matrilineal any children will be of the dragons dynasty (which he can probably throw some gold around to get the proper trappings) and if he plays his cards right it can be the start of a nice little half-blood linage.

Sure they'll get some bad press to start but half-dragons are supremely competent and attractive mates, he just needs a son.

You haven't been here recently have you?

Dragon actually clones himself withclone spell, arranges spectacle by polymorphing into a knight and slaying himself. Revealing his trueform after the marriage.

[Spoiler]Players are tasked snooping out if the dragon slain was the clone or not[/spoiler]

So the dragon arranged to be resurrected once the couple die?

If the Princess and whoever defeated the dragon knew they would they commit suicide?

>half-dragons are supremely competent and attractive mates

Silence your fetishes mate. For all we know a half-dragon kid would just be a greedy bastard constantly immolating his underwear. Who looks like a human with a lizard's face.

I think 'they' in this case referred only to the dragon as a gender-neutral pronoun.

Or dragon with human's face and skin instead of scales.

So the princess tricked the dragon into killing itself, therefore meaning the princess has to marry herself!

Why wouldn't the princess then kill herself to annul the marriage, and be resurrected afterwards?

Jesus Christ how horrifying

In my settings half-dragons are generally just human+, don't look much different beyond odd eye shades and sharper cheekbones. Naturally longer lived, more skilled in whatever they might peruse and with a percent for vomiting fire.

But who would arrest the people that cooked a fucking dragon?

You mean the morons who went into a dungeon without adequate food supplies? How dangerous can they really be?

Yeah, no. The killed a dragon that was strong enough to enforce it's will on an entire kingdom. No amount of subversiveness will change that, you cheeky cunt.

The PCs of the NEXT campaign!
>These deviants killed, cooked, and ate the king's son-in-law!
>The princess has been inconsolable ever since.

HALF!

Taxes can help replenish the hoard.

The dragons horde, and the dragon itself, might prove useful for the countries military.

TAKING OUR JERBS!
TAKING OUR WAIFUS!

let's get a couple of definitions straight

horde = massive armed force (ie horde of goblins, Mongol horde, etc)

hoard = massive stash of valuables or other objects (treasure hoard, the TV show Hoarders, etc). Hoard can also be a verb, meaning: to accumulate or create a hoard or just store things away

Since princesses and dragons could each conceivably be in possession of hoards and hordes, it's best to be careful about your spelling in this instance

>dragon walks up to the castle
>says he's the king now
>sets fire to anyone who says otherwise

Well, duh. And because her hoard is now his, the kingdom's populace are now his hoard. It's a good investment.

And thats when the town guard arrests him.

Wait, isn't this like the plot of that one Pratchett book?

It is literally the plot of Guards! Guards! yes.

>Dragon has a massive treasure hoard
>Bullies the kingdom into becoming its central bank
>Institutes fiat paper money and a fractional reserve

Whole thing was a scheme to have a more comfortable treasure hoard to sleep on

Plot in a campaign I ran.

King specifically, just because she felt like tweaking the aristocracies' nose.

Fucking wizards!