Thinking about it, I have never had a dragon attack Riverwood, or near Whiterun after the first, in hundreds of hours play. I don't fast travel except carriages, and they only seem to attack near towns when I leave, particularly Markarth, Riften and the College. Mind you, I spend so long just wandering and collecting ingredients, my quota of dragons is probably mostly taken by the ones that fly past and ignore you.

I had stopped fast travel for a while, and it is indeed more immersive. However, I also noticed that the roads were pretty empty of any sort of encounters except for thieves and assassins (and the ubiquitous trio of Redguards,) and someone said that if you fast travel you get more frequent "repop" on the roads and in the countryside. So far, my experience bears this out. I only fast travel occasionally now, but I do it from time to time when things start getting dull.

That said, Riverwood attracts more than its share of dragons, whether or not I FT there. It just seems to be a hotspot, at least in my games, whether I have mods loaded or not.

As for "no more dragons after the main quest"... I'm dead set against this. I'm the Dragonborn, not the Nanny, I can handle a few dragons (two at a time often enough.) I enjoy fighting dragons, especially since downloading the Deadly Dragons mod. New types of dragons with new weapons, new appearances, etc. Worst so far? A Nether Dragon. Yep, he was invisible half the time, fading in and out, one hell of a battle.

Heh, yeah, and you'd get a built in smithy to boot!

As a Mage, I fast travel there a lot. It's fun when dragon attacks. Plenty of pillars to hide behind, building to go into when things get tough. And all the mages there are pretty strong so I don't worry about them.

I've just come to accept that Alvor is going to die at some point. I don't go to Riverwood too often, once is enough for Alvor.

I've had this problem a lot in Dawnstar and Winterhold. Dragons seem to spawn there everytime I get a carriage to these places. It's frustrating as they're depleting Dawnstar of merchants and mine owners. I've lost merchants and other NPC's I liked all over Skyrim due to these blasted dragon attacks, I don't get why the armorless blacksmith is scripted to attack a fire/ice breathing behemoth, as well as his wife.

By 38th level in my first toon all that is left in Riverwood is 2 children and a chicken! Anyone who went outside is long dead. Just the respawning guards keep it from being a ghost town.

That is both funny and sad.

too many dragons have spawned in riverwood, where do a buy my weapons now if not for the blacksmith? theres a loverly supply of bodies waiting to be pushed into the stream right now :@

British english uses the "ou" with words that came from Latin with an r at the end. Like favour, flavor, honour and honor, harbour and harbor etc. They were introduced into English from Old French when the Normans invaded.
It's not a hard and fast rule for every word that came from the old French, indeed some words (like governour) reverted to the spelling of governor in British English. But it does only apply to words that came from French with a Latin root and the "or" ending. It must also be a nominative form of a noun.

The "our/or" combination comes at the end of a word or before a suffix. (E.g. honour, honour-ary)
And the word's root is Latin.

So although dragon's root is Latin, the old French word for dragon is indeed dragon, so there isn't an "or" ending.

I know it's off topic (and also against Forum rules), but I saw a chance here for everybody to learn something

I've seen them quite often in Falkreath, but yeah they really really seem to like Winterhold, I've even had some instances were I wind up fighting two of them at once there.

Yeah, 900 hours and Riverwood has gotten attacked only once! Damn lazy dragons

But my ~30 hours old characters saw a second random dragon Unfortunately it was one of the pacifists

Well now close to 90 playing hours on PS3 I fast travelled to "inner part" of Winterhold mages college and a dragon attcked the first time. Still it′s rare, Riverwood is for getting dragon bones. No lagg so far. Save file size about 5500 kb? Has crashed once or twice. Kinda off topic but there it is.

Are you serious ??? 900 hours on the one save ? How badly glitched is it ? Does it freeze often ? Do you have respawning issues ?

That's unbelievable.