Not quite. Remember that the original reason the dragon was after V and V’s family was because V killed her son. There’s a decent chance that after V dispatches the dragon, some other dragon is going to declare revenge and try to do the same thing to V’s family. V put a stop to that possibility in the most ruthless, straightforward, evil way imaginable.
(Although, since black dragons aren’t shiny, is killing them all actually a bad thing in a D&D world? :p)
I disagree. While it certainly wasn 't Good, it was Neutral rather than Evil. Turnabout is fair play. Arguably, V is being merciful: the dragon was going to Soul Bind V’s children; V isn’t going that far.
Also, he just elimated scores of powerful, chaotic evil creatures from the world. If he’d taken the time to hunt down each one of them individually, he’d be considered one of the greatest heroes that world has ever seen.
It could be worse. There’s an official WotC module where the main villain is a particularly carnal red dragon, and almost all of the monsters encountered are half-dragons.
Again, I reiterate that I have not played D&D in years, but is there still such a thing as the goddess of evil dragons, Tiamat? How do you think she’s going to like having a sizeable number of her worshippers eliminated from the face of the earth in one massive strike? Think she might feel obligated to track down the source of such potent arcane power?
I once DMd a campaign where, about a quarter of the way through, they killed a black dragon visiting some kuo-toa. The fight involved killing a lot of acid-resistant tadpole-ish things.
Just over half-way through the campaign, they were accosted by an outsize minotaur - with black, scaly skin. The dead dragon’s oldest child.
Actually, I just assumed that V needed the dragon at least half-alive for the epic spell to work. Not that it was (directly) done to torment the dragon.
Tiamat actually exists in the OotS world – go back and check when the Oracle is getting ready to hand out prophecies here. And of course, she’s also one of the western gods.
It is sort of implied that Tiamat is the Oracle’s mommy with the glandular problem, who gave him the job out of nepotism.
Somewhat a cross-post from ENWorld, but in D&D ‘Not Good’ is not the same as ‘Evil’. In D&D there is the third, Neutral, way. V’s act is clearly not Good, but it is not Evil. The dragon’s descendants that died are simply dead. Not tortured. And note that some of them survived - not all have Xs for eyes - like the dragon next to the eggs and the flying dragon in the middle of the 3rd from bottom row.
Well, the dragon had complained about being taken away from her son and husband. Apparently, she was enjoying the afterlife with relatives. Now she has more relatives to enjoy it with.
If you look closely, the one next to the eggs does have X eyes. I don’t have enough resolution to say for sure about the other, but I think it’s safe to say that all 63 of the pictured dragons died.
But if she’s undead, she won’t get to enjoy hanging out with them.
I thought that was going to be the particularly cruel part- just leaving the head alive somewhere- like Prometheus bound, without the torture.
