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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FourthBear" data-source="post: 3994096" data-attributes="member: 55846">As noted on other threads, I disagree with your assertion that dragons need spells or spell-like abilities to be mastermind villains.  However, if a DM, such as yourself, wants dragons to have non-combat spell-like abilities for plot reasons, they should certainly feel free to do so.  Since they will have little influence on the immediate combat challenge of the dragon, they are mostly there to justify the background and encounter details.  In this case, a DM could simply declare that dragons are innately magical creatures and can accomplish myriad magical tasks.  I see no reason that they need to write out a list of specific spells and spell-like powers.  Is there going to be an audit at the end of the adventure in which the players insist that you account for every non-combat ability of the dragon?  If the DM does not trust this and wishes to list out explicitly every magical ability that the dragon has, then he should get some idea of how big an explicit list would be.  If spells are going to be invoked for almost all non-combat interactions and challenges the dragon faces, then this is going to be quite a long list of spells known.  This is why on other threads I wanted to compile a list of all of the spells that you feel a mastermind dragon needed.  To get an idea of what level spellcaster every dragon should be in your view.</blockquote>