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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tzarevitch" data-source="post: 3996938" data-attributes="member: 1792">I have news for you. Spy networks existed BEFORE the dawn of satellite communications. They date back to ancient days. Unless we are talking about trully vast distances, your intel does not have to be real time. If the dragon wants magical communications, it can find a few of those ubiquitous kobold sorcerers that the kobold lairs seem to have so many of.1. The spells that most dragons had were nowhere near enough to protect them against anything powerful enough to think it could challengethem.2.  Since disabling mundane communcation networks is so easy I assume you will be submitting your plan to disable the communication networks of Al-Qaeda, Hamas, the Taliban, North Korea, Syria, Iran and China ASAP so the CIA can get right on it. I am sure they would be delighted to hear what they have been doing wrong all these years. 3. And yes, the CIA director personally spends time in sunny Iran every summer so he can hear the report of every deep-cover operative. . . personally. Because without that the entire CIA spy network will collapse.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> First of all, magic itself if not much of a defense against magic divinations. Most of those blocked scrying results are DM or author fiat. Darkness, inhospitable location and good lair construction are the best defenses.What sane noble is going to track down a dragon or agents known to work for a dragon? Are you familar with Shadowrun? Google search for "Lofwyr" and tell me that any sane noble or corp exec would harass one of his agents. Note this has nothing to do with his magic, it is beneath him to bother to use magic on you. His organization will simply have someone make you wish you were dead. Exactly like mafia dons and corporate bosses do in the real world . . . without magic. I am not sure why you think humans would trust a dragon less than anything else in a fantasy setting. In Shadowrun one was elected president and many of those are much nastier than D&D dragons. If a dragon landed in front of you on the way home with $10,000 deposit and offered you a job paying $10,000 per month more simply to act as it investment consultant and spokesman you are saying you wouldn't take it? Even when all it is asking you to do is the same thing ordinary humans pay other humans to do legally?Tzarevitch</blockquote>

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