You can regularly solo this quest with ranged magical cantrips or a bow without taking a single hit. None of the enemies will outpace you, so long as you are smart about where you run and don't end up backed into a corner(Even with the dead ends, you should have adequate time to kill the enemies since they move so slowly). This quest is dangerous for melee combatants, as the things that do hit you, will hit you hard and the boss has an extra devastating trick for things it catches. I think this design choice was intended.

That said, I think the quest itself only has...2? Actual loot containers. I guess the loot could be increased, but I think 1-2 loot containers is the par for 1-6 quests anyways.

I'm also in favor of removing the boss's nasty trick so melee inclined people can have a whack at it so to speak, but that's just me.

No, but not because I don't like the idea. It's because I'd much rather have this guy find the dragon/grig IG, go searching for it, make a vow to serve it, etc, in game. Doesn't really feel like a thing that's app'd for so much as earned, especially since this PC has never even ran into the grig yet.

Plus, it's just an illusion and fey prank. I'm 99% sure the player thinks it's a real dragon, and allowing this would just break the illusion all together.

The idea of having this LE tiefling swear fealty to this fake dragon who's actually a good aligned fey sounds comical. Though I can't imagine that the grig would do anything more than pull pranks against said tiefling itself.

Just to point out as well, things like Frost giants, Ettins, Cyclops, etc have a chance of dropping like 40 prestige and 200+gp already anyways.

(I can pop in to see what's going on~)