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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Prince Atom" data-source="post: 570000" data-attributes="member: 6046">I would presume that dragons, like all scaley creatures, shed as they outgrow their skins.  They don't have soft skins like mammals (which stretch) or heavily armored skins like insects (which stretch and the armor plates separate.  Ever seen a very full honey ant?).  They may have a specific area of their lairs or territories where they go to scratch and scratch and shed, or they may not.I remember how neat it was as a kid to find an old snake skin out in the fields.  Finding something a thousand times bigger would probably not be very pleasant.They may be nearly blind when they molt, but they do have blindsight and various other senses to compensate.  They will be very, very touchy (Bahamut has bad days too, y'know).I'd say you'd need the whole skin to make dragonscale armor, but the shed may be valuable in various abjuration spells, and may even provide something like Protection from Elements (say, cold resistance 5).Now I've started having inspirations about a dragon's shedding place and various encounters therein....TWKThe Muse has struck again.</blockquote>