I thought he was going to say "It looks like a rock to everyone else around you and they’re constantly making interventions about your apparent obsession with overprotecting your ‘pet rock’ "
Fighting off the destructive investigative methods that murder hobos usually instigate.
Oh I hope you got a party of spellcasters.
Some divination, scrying and arcane eye might get you that egg.
Or a dwarf with a keen eye for minerals who can spot an ole dragon eye at 30 paces!
But if he’s really good at roleplaying, he’ll just subtly try to steer the party clear of it.
Dwarves instinctively get the fuck away from dragon eggs.
It’s not in the quarry. It’s in an expected spot, but the DM will throw random stones (possibly even a magical one) at them for a few sessions.
You have entered THE VULTURE DIMENSION!!!
A ranger whose favored enemy is Dragons could probably find the egg without much effort. Not sure you want them to though if you don’t want the egg scrambled.
detect magic, locate object: egg (2nd use type). Or fill the quarry with water and scoop up the floating rock
What DM would deliberately sabotage their own game like that? No one actually wants to spend a session waiting for someone to examine an endless supply of rocks.
Ritual detect magic on at all times!
At. All. Times.
Bruh, just look for the egg shaped rock
