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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 6740645" data-attributes="member: 18333">Nice ideas about Dragons.  I agree with you.  Dragons should be terrifying, cunning and dangerous.Interestingly though, if a dragon is too powerful and dangerous, there needs to be a way to justify why it doesn't appear in the world (town, city, etc.) more often to destroy and plunder whenever or wherever it likes.In a way, 5e addresses this problem by using bounded accuracy so that even the most mighty of all dragons still fears vast numbers of foes, even lower level ones.  Sure, dragonfear could help against 100s of minor foes, but even still, there is the chance that enough of the fearful peasants with bows or ballista, could hurt the dragon.  I actually like how BA makes it so that most powerful creatures may still fear wandering too close to an organized society of humanoids or other less powerful creatures.Another way to justify it could be that all of the most powerful dragons are generally lazy and covetous so they would much rather plan their raids and sit on their treasure hoards than actually go out and conquer.  Perhaps Smaug was like this.  He shined brightly during his attack on the Dwarves earlier in history, but was quite content to spend eons sleeping on his treasure.</blockquote>