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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8363034" data-attributes="member: 52734">Campaign setting, but no, it did not give a reason.  I simply expect it was greed = power, as a method of explaining why dragons collected treasure hoards.  It did mention that the hoard needed to contain a minimum number of magical objects though.<Edit:> Went back and reread the hoard section, and I was wrong there are some details - the dragon has to sleep on the hoard to grow in size, and when it shifts from one age category to another, it sheds its old scales, which transform into precious metals or gems (ex., gold dragon scales become gold, red dragon scales become rubies, etc.), with a value of 1,000 gp x old Age category.  A mystical bond also forms between the dragon and hoard, so that if anything is taken from the hoard, the dragon knows exactly where it is.</blockquote>