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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 28887" data-attributes="member: 1194">Just wanted to question you guys on an assumption about dragons I've heard repeatedly:That they are way arrogant.It seems to me that dragons are typically pictured as arrogant when they are the ones in control of the situation.No problem there.It's when we go to assuming that dragons are arrogant ALL the time is what i question.They are NOT going to ASSUME that they are more powerful than this random group of adventurers that is storming their lair, probably using magics as well.Why should an intellignet creature that has seen more than it's share of battles and tricks... spot the party a few nice licks (or in the case of the Greater Spell-Focused mage casting Polymorph other, the entire battle) by unreasonably assuming that the dragon is more powerful?Seems to me that the dragon would gauge the party's power as best he can.If he's more powerful than they are, THEN he'd be arrogant and they might get a lucky shot in.But when the dragon doesn't know how powerful they are, he'd come in with all guns blazin', intent on teaching these trespassers WHY noone F&%CKS with a dragon on his own turf!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There's a big difference between arrogance and unreasonable recklessness.</blockquote>

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