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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2880890" data-attributes="member: 19675">A dragon, as we have pointed out, views time on a different scale than humans or even elves do.  If you've lived 2000 years as a dragon, how many time must you have faced parties bent on taking your hoard?  How many Magic Missiles, Fireballs, Lightning Bolts, and other spells have you faced?  How many rogues have tried to flank you?  How many Bane weapons have been used against you?Odds are just as good that the dragon will try to reserve its breath weapon for use when the party is at a choke point...probably one of the beast's creation.And its not just about fighting.  Many such creatures would long ago have mastered the "art of fighting without fighting"- defeating their opponents before the first arrow is nocked.  A particularly long lived and powerful one should be capable of terribly devious, manipulative tactics.What is to prevent such a being from using his spells, familiars and allies (willing or unwitting) from controlling human organizations?  Remember, powerful ones would even have shapechanging abilities.  Why not have a polymorphed dragon as head of a city's Thieves' Guild?Or imagine if you will, a dragon who actually makes up rumors of powerful treasures in a particular locale...and monitors who or what follows up on them- marking those brave enough and powerful enough to survive a particular goose chase, targeting them for culling, either personally or through agents.  While loathe to part with any portion of a hoard, a wise dragon might deem it gold well spent to have some assassinations attempted if it meant preserving the greater body of the hoard.</blockquote>

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