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Sir Brennen said:Dragons using wizard spells is such a D&D'ism, and goes back to 1E where that particular ability was added to make them better combat monsters. They were horribly weak for such an iconic monster, not coming close to stacking up against demons and devils. The fact that there were one or two spells they could take that explained away the "how do they do that without hands" issues was completely incidental. I for one am glad they're making them more like their counterparts in myth and fiction, and not a big wizard-in-a-lizard.
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Ok, that just got my hackles up.
I am very sorry you think that, but dragons as wizards is not a D&Dism. You have Earthdawn, Palladium FRP, Rolemaster and Shadowrun are all rpgs that represent dragons as wielders of great magical might and not only in the form of primal magic (allowing them to breath fire and fly) but also as knowledgeable of structured arcane magic as that used by humans and other intelligent creatures.
In literature, also, there is no lacking of dragons depicted as old and wise, versed in all forms of magic.
I can see that in old myth they were often depicted as brutes and when possessing magical power it was rarely structured, but then, the magic of old wizards of myth was rarely structured as well.