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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasin" data-source="post: 3010358" data-attributes="member: 7531">This is an excellent point.I'm sure even people who don't like spellcasting dragons wouldn't be bothered by a dragon being able to intentionally dream of it's enemies (scrying) or see through illusions (true seeing) or command people into suicidal actions with the Voice (suggestion). So give your dragon those spells. Sure, it'd be smarter to pick mage armour and wraithstrike, but it'd be "smarter" to have Str 56 instead of Str 46 and you don't have to write that on your dragon's sheet either. The DM shouldn't be under pressure to perform, to minmax, to build the best monster under given constraints, because he's the one setting the constraints, so he can build what he pleases. At worst, he'll have to remember to award CR 23 XP for a nominally CR 24 dragon because he picked sub-optimal spells.But ultimately, fewer people would be bothered by a dragon who speaks ancient words of power and has his body tense up, ready to jump in any direction; or a dragon who flies into the sun and as he swoops down, you see his scales glitter like the myriad diamonds of his hoard, distracting you and making your attacks difficult; or the dragon who commands the very air he glides through, making him as agile as a swallow as the very winds seem to blow him where he desires; then with a dragon who casts nerveskitter, scintillating scales and wings of air. It's all in the presentation. Well, not all, but a very big part.</blockquote>

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