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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 3927726" data-attributes="member: 2518">And much more boring BBEGs. No specifically tailored lairs. They have to use natural caves instead, no traps or magical alarms (perfect for CdGing sleeping dragons), no way to escape from magical traps/ambushes, no way to heal themselves, no way to cancel the enemies magical defenses, no way to bypass them (Use a lot of fire protection and the majority of a red dragons SLAs and attack options is useless. And there is nothing the red dragon can do against that), no way to spy on the PCs, no way to interact with PHB races without being recognized, no way to direct minions unless you are in direct contact with them.Without spellcasting dragons loose so much utility that the are nearly unusable as BBEG except "Dragon burnd down village" type BBEGs. Just because some DMs are so lazy that they don't want to prepare such iconic monsters (which are hardly encountered very often) for their sessions anymore I don't want to miss all the option spellcasting gives to dragons. Without them dragons as solitary creatures have nearly no way to actually do anything except sitting in their cave and waiting for th PCs to come to it. And if they do they will have a big disadvantage.Without magic this is something dragons can not do.</blockquote>