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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 892081" data-attributes="member: 11581">So? In reality, we're at the top of the food chain, and we use weapons.The real reason why a dragon would not use armor is because armor is exceedingly heavy, and a dragon loaded down with so much excess ironmongery would be incapable of liftoff. Flight represents a more potent defense for a dragon than armor plate, a design methodology also seen in the construction of modern (and not-so-modern) airplanes. Nobody really puts armor on a plane, because anything that would be thick, heavy, and strong enough to qualify as genuine armor capable of competing with the armor of ground-based vehicles would render the plane incapable of flight. Even the armor on helicopters, which fly in a more brute-force manner than planes, is nowhere close to the level of armor found on a tank, and is more intended for protection from light ground fire than it is for protection from other helicopters.Weapons, on the other hand, a dragon would most certainly make use of. However, the technological base that a dragon typically operates in generally precludes the use of a JDAM, so the amount of weaponry developed for use in flight is relatively limited, and what the dragon already has is probably better than anything else which has been invented.This is the real reason why you don't see dragons wielding weapons: Because few, if any, weapons which exist in the D&D universe can compete with what the dragon already has, without adding so much mass that the dragon is no longer capable of flight.</blockquote>

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