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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 6638461" data-attributes="member: 53980">There's a vast difference between a dangerous lair and a perfect lair (the aforementioned black dragon lair containing 4 separate chambers hidden underwater would fall under the latter IMO). There are only so many lairs to go around. Of those, the best are likely to already be occupied (potentially by ancient dragons). As such, I don't think it's realistic for every (or even most) adult dragons to have super-villain lairs. It's kind of like buying a house. Maybe you had your heart set on a good school district, near a train station, 2.5 baths, and within your price range. Well, you probably had to compromise somewhere so maybe you have to settle for 1.5 baths to keep things in your price range and within other parameters. Maybe you're also further from the train station than you'd prefer. There were probably houses that would have met all your criteria, within your price range, they just weren't for sale when you were buying.So that adult red dragon might have a volcano lair somewhere, but maybe he wasn't able to find one with a secret chamber where the only access is via a tunnel of molten rock. Maybe he's a bit short-staffed because there aren't too many intelligent humanoids who want to live near an active volcano.Dragons are known for their vices, particularly chromatics. An adult dragon living in a remote area probably has to deal with real threats quite rarely. As such, portraying them as hyper-paranoid just seems off to me. Assuming you live in a fairly peaceful neighborhood, do you and your neighbors regularly patrol your lawns because a criminal COULD try to break in? Odds are you have better things to do, even if it's just getting an extra 30 minutes of sleep in the morning. Dragons are arrogant. There aren't many things that want to try to go after an adult dragon, and a dragon knows that.I don't find it unlikely at all that a dragon that's known a century of relative peace and quiet could be caught resting on its hoard when adventurers finally do come calling.</blockquote>

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