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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 3983124" data-attributes="member: 2518">Is that the answer you give your players when they want to find out more about the layout of the lair, its traps and magical protections? Some people are contend with this explanation but some are not. They want to know how certain creatures affect the world around them as this is also part of a living world. Simply saying "Because I say so" isn't good enough.I haven't seen it but based on WotC track record and 4E design philosophy (monsters = XP containers to kill. Don't care about story of monsters) and the information from W&M it doesn't look like they will have rituals.Is your Lord Dargus member of a huge, monsterous race which is unable to interact peacefully with other races and lives solitary lives and very remote places and is also unable to craft things because its "hands" are not dexterous enough?"Big Freaking Claws" can't craft traps, place alarms or ward against teleportation.And ever heard of CdG?Who says that it isn't? You? There are many people who play D&D not as "hack Simulator" where the world is in stasis unless the PCs interact with it but instead want a living world where nothing happens "Because the DM says so".Maybe, but I doubt it. WotC was never concerned much with "Out of Combat" abilities and one of the design goals is/was it to remove such non combat abilities to make monsters easier to play.Also not every manstermind needs to be a wizard (but it helps). Dragons are "extra handicapped" because they can't interact with most other folk because of their size,body form and reputation, are not member of a society which works together and their claws are not dexterous enough to craft things. What other creatures can achieve through work with their own hands and cooperation the dragon has to achieve through magic.And where do this scrolls and items come from? You can't always use the explanation that a caravan they raided contained exactly those scrolls and items.That old dragon writeups didn't contain such spells is what I mean with WotC bad track record. Most spell lists for dragons made by WotC were extremly bad. (Only combat application and then most direct damage spells with the same element as the breath weapon. Very easy to defend against). Thats why I don't think that WotC will givedragon rituals.</blockquote>

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