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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 256913" data-attributes="member: 2020">Cheers.  Some great answers here.    And thanks for the compliments.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I sorta get the impression from the above that there are three good answers to the problem:     1:  A community of dragons (ala the Dragon Council, Reprisal's dragon community, dragons working together to intimidate and extort from the humans, and the others.)  2:  Dragons intermingling with the humans, demihumans, and humanoids (ala the Coven of Druids allied with the Green dragon, dragons assuming human forms, dragons making treaties with human nations, dragons forming secret alliances with human nations, and the others.)  3:  Or both of the above combined.  You know, it seems to me (just my opinion) that dragons are much like humans in this:  they must, like humans, band together into a civilization (government, armies, treaties, and all of that) for self-protection against a hostile world.  With humans, there is strength in numbers, and so it is with dragons.  With humans, civilization enables them to achieve ends impossible if they worked alone, and so it appears to be the case with dragons.  I guess that the dragon who sits alone on his pile of good (ala Smaug, the dragon of Landover, etc.) is going to go the way of the Dodo.  Whereas the Dragon Nations (Mystara, Pern, the Council of Wyrms Setting, and the others) flourish.  Even dragons with Epic power (the Epic dragons given in the ELH, which I do not have yet, but have heard of) are really, in the end, truly unable to stand alone.  For they must face Epic Level PCs and NPCs.  Now, that dragon that is a million years old, is another matter.  If one considers how quickly a PC or NPC (and dragons can gain PC levels now) gains levels (what, say 20 levels in 20 years of life?) there is no question about the power of a million year old dragon.  Of course, there are always intrepid (read:  stupid) adventurers trying to come up with ways to do the impossible (such as killing a million year old dragon.)    That is, I suppose, why they invented Talismans of the Sphere ...</blockquote>

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