Dragon Hoards 

I like the idea of lung dragons having sand mandalas and zen gardens of crushed gems and mineral salts.

I am a complex nerd, but i see Aj covering something draconic and i click.

Kobold: how about we invent a system of letters of credit, so humans stop using gold as a currency. Dragon: ... You're promoted.

an ancient dragon and a lich who have slowly built a friendship over a few centuries. now they have a traditional full moon capture the flag game between their minions for honor, loot, and occasionally just for fun.

In my campaign world I have an ancient gold dragon that considers the library at one of the most prestigious royal universities to be his hoard. He acts as the chief librarian while polymorphed into a fastidious old man. He allows patrons to use the books, but only the most trusted and respected are allowed to borrow a book. Any late fees can be...extreme.

"It didn't break your imagination, right?" *Sweating profusely in euclidian geometry*

Once had the party wind up inside a dragon's hoard. It was a giant, neatly organized warehouse with shelves up to the 120 ft ceiling with pallets of treasure, and kobolds with steam powered forklifts constantly rearranging it to the dragon's whims. Kobolds arguing over which aisle a chest that looks suspiciously like the Ark of the Covenant goes on. Twas a fun one.

"That should be the normal order of things!" It *was!* Back in the day, it was fully expected that adventurers would start establishing their own keeps around level nine.

Having undead air fresheners guarding a hoard is the best idea I've ever heard🤣 I can imagine you subtly warning your players by telling them the room smells amazingly good for a cave full of treasure

A dragon playing their version of a table top wargame amuses me greatly. I can easily see a red dragon with a huge rule book and immensely pleased with his kobold army with Lizardfolk auxiliary troops. Wanting to face off against his lich friend's skeleton army and bone constructs.

Dragon: "Come, mortal! Look upon my hoard! Look and marvel at the cumulative wealth that is my life eternal! Gaze upon the treasure that will farry me to the next world!" Adventure: "Oh My God! Is that a real 1443DR, 5 compartment, Lantanese Rubber Lined, Mordenkainen's "The Balanced Meal" Lunchbox?? But how? Only 8 of those were ever made because of the recall on the toxic rubber....." Dragon: "Pretty sweet, right?"

Well this has to do with a character concept backstory, But I had this idea for Kobold cleric whos clan worshiped and kind of good aligned Buddhist like Blue Dragon inspired by the Japanese Shinto Priestess Inari. Her hoard was pack Flail Snails that she would task her Kobolds take care of. Farming and taking care of the snails made the Kobolds peaceful and my Kobold cleric walk around like a Buddhist Monk carrying a little snail in a cage as he traveled.

One way to emphasize both the wealth and size of a dragon is for them to use large items as jewelry or accessories. A pair of golden sarcophagi for earrings, a magic lance for a toothpick, a fine silk carpet for a napkin, a row boat as a gravy boat. Drives home both massive size and ridiculous wealth.

“There’s blood on the hands of any ruling family, I assure you” 18:53 AJ has the noble background, confirmed

Yep, golden blanket. There goes a D&D reason to fight over a blanket. I can imagine a dragonborn throwing a tantrum like a petulant child that lost their favorite "blanky".

An ancient dragon would have the resources of a nation likely with enough servants to wage a legitimate war

The dragon below listens in with satisfaction.

And now I'm imagining an ancient dragon with a collection of human-sized statues s/he paints for fun. Yes, a dragon "miniature" collector. :D Who knows, maybe some (or all) of them are actual people turned to stone.

The thought of Dragons creating all the maps makes way to much sense. Every major feature named after Dragons, vague descriptions and convenient blank spots all throughout the map.

That awkward moment when the players burst into the dragon's lair. Only to find that she is otherwise engaged with her much bigger boyfriend.

It's 5:06 AM and I just got home from work but damn you, now I have to watch this whole video.

I remeber my DM really catching us with our pants down. We raided a dragons horde. And blew the gold, sold of everything we could. Etc etc. Typical lowbrow mentality playing. After some time from town to town. People stopped trading and bartering with us. We could figure out way. After a few towns we found out that after a few days after we leave town, village, etc etc. Small farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. Would be utterly destroyed. We also noticed that the gold coins always seemed to come back to us. Long story of death and destruction later. We found out that this ingenious dragon cursed his coins. And as a dragon. Always knows where its hoarde is. It cursed it in a way that it always found it's way back to the one/ones that stole it. As a player I was blown away by this. In short. Like a thief in the night, stole all the gold from my party, and returned it to the dragon. Plus interest. For its pain and suffering. It let me live. My party on the other hand. Well...... for not being upfront and honest...... I was digging graves for a bit.

blue dragons are most fitting to use their pile of metal as defense, fist sign there is a dragon in there is that the floor covered with coins suddenly electrocute everyone. then they got to move around on the electricity transmitting floor in attempt to get to it before the next breath attack and it confuse and teases them, it will strike but only once it thinks they are weak enough or once someone is isolated from the others.

As wyrmlings dragons often stack coins into arrangements like sand castles or houses of cards. Even those who grow out of this tendency tend to resume stacking coins as a well aimed tail swipe can turn such stacks into improvised grapeshot against intruders.

Giant Lizard sees shiny thing. Giant lizard takes that shiny thing. Tiny apes get angry.

On the topic of magic items, my party found an artefact that blocks the view of the gods. It’s a tapestry depicting their many many failures and embarrassments and offends them to look upon it (based of the Arachnid legend from Greek myth). It also has some spider magic, is made of silk, and gods can only influence the region it’s in if they manifest an avatar there. The party used it to hide another artefact they have, a tome from an ancient necromantic empire that has cleric healing spells converted in to arcane spells that wizards can learn and craft scrolls for. The gods demanded that they hand over the book and the party did, but they hid a number of healing spells as scrolls out wizards could learn, as well as the knowledge of how to perform the magic contained within the old book. The gods were not happy

An evil party kills a gold dragon only to find themselves hunted by a red dragon that lived nearby, it was always jealous of the gold dragon’s hoard and in its own weird way it liked and respected its metallic neighbour. It’s very upset that these upstarts got the hoard before it did and hates them for killing a dragon stronger than itself (though they’ll never admit that)

Imagine a stupid noble persuading a group of adventurers to hunt down an old dragon that secretly is keeping a bunch of horrors from invading the land

I vaguely remember that dragon hoard has some impact on dragon's afterlife. The bigger the hoard the better the afterlife. But I'm not sure if it is in lore, or if I made it up.

I once had an ancient red dragon that melted their massive piles of gold coins into the very caldera of the volcano, eventually it got to the point where about half of the magma was liquid gold. Not only is it extremely stylish, it's also a great anti-theft measure (If being an ancient red dragon wasn't enough) They also owned several iron golems; they had a deal with a nearby dwarvish clan that in exchange for lending it's dragonfire to their finest artisans once a century, they would get some magical items - the golems just happened to be favorites, but there were plenty of other magical items Iron golems are hard enough to fight, but when they're healing off of an ancient red dragon's breath, well, it's not exactly a fair fight

23:00 This is exactly how Ivaldi went from a character I played to a recurring NPC that own several very successful businesses. He won D&D, now he gets to be an NPC with broken stats and Nostalgia Armor so thick that fan art of Lolth gets jealous.

I was halfway through this video when I had to pause it to start planning my next campaign, featuring the antics that follow tracking a dragon down and killing them. I'm sure the end of the video is lovely, I'll swing back around and catch it some other day.

AJ: "You can be a DM without any players at all." I was not expecting to be attacked this early in the morning.

When a wizard threatens you by saying they'll open a book and spit facts at you, you should take heed lmao

A Dragon Hoard could be enchanted to become a Gold Elemental (reskinned Earth Elemental), or a Dragon Mage could cast Animate Objects to turn it's treasure hoard into a weapon.

There are so many awesome drawings of dragon hordes. Would have been great to see them included.

Damnit now I have to write a campaign about a dragon trying to get power from their treasure and attract better mates. All so I can voice a dragon like Al Pacino to say "first you get the money, then you get the power, and then you get the women."

I was legit thinking about this while falling asleep last night. GET OUT OF MY HEAD, AJ!

One 'treasure' that's almost universally overlooked is bone. If your world doesn't have cheaply available metal or plastic, bone is an immensely superior material to wood. Right up to the 18th-century bone tools were widely used and the whaling industry wasn't just about oil. If any predator had accumulated hundreds of large bones that would be a treasure in itself. Particularly if it included things like elephant tusks or rhino horns.

I had a wonderful thought listening to this. What about a dragon librarian? Dragons know every piece of treasure down to the clipped coin, so a library dragon would have read and memorized every piece of information in every book or scroll it has ever read. A great source of information for the players, for a suitable price. A second thought: a dragon of an advanced age would have collected thousands of artifacts of historic value. Why not open a museum? A dragon curator would put the British Museum to shame without a doubt.

When I think of Dragon Hordes I try and think of unique variants, most tied to Dragon Psychoses. A Gold Dragon who has a penchant for lore about different planes, and the royalty therein might have more than just a gold mound to laze about in but also a VAST library with floating shelves filled with scrolls and tomes of mind-melting information. Perhaps a Fang Dragon has a massive hallway carved into it's lair with row after row of taxidermized figures of the many mighty beasts and enemies it's slayed over the centuries, quite the trophy room to show off to any daring to enter. Better yet a Green Dragon might have an exit from it's lair leading out into a well protected and very secretive grove where it cultivates especially deadly plants and fungi for use as guards and sentries. Any one of these would also be worth a thief risking their lives to steal from as precious lore, rare raw materials components and one of a kind plant species would fetch a much higher price than the fistful of gold they might usually come away with.

Dragonlord Silumgar from the Magic the Gathering setting Tarkir, is an excellent example of a decadent & gluttonous dragon that lounges on it's hoard attended by it's literally gilded undead minions and supported by his clan of assassins & sorcerers (who's previous leader's mummified corpse he now wears as a pendant around his fat neck).

Story idea: Famous goldsmith screwed up with some nobles, and is now trading their talents to a dragon in exchange for refuge. The dragon get statuary and other things more easily traced than a few specific coins, the goldsmith gets not only to continue practicing their art, as well as that whole "living" thing. Inciting incident for the plot maybe being that someone wants it to end, or perhaps to get in from the beginning and negotiate the arrangement.

Had a terrifying idea for a magic item for Monks or martial characters that focus on unarmed combat, just now. Bigby's Boxing Gloves: For ten minutes a day, the wielder summons a pair of large phantasmal hands that can punch, block. or grapple at the wielders command.

i recall that complete scoundrel had some nasty ideas for an 'unspendable' dragons hoard. fused into a giant lump so you cant move it, coins with evil symbols on them so no-one will accept them, ect. that book had the idea that the hoard was the adventure because of all the problems it caused for the players.

Even if the party managed to somehow get the hoard quickly enough, the draconic activity in the area would explode, from dragons looking for the hoard to increase theirs, to fighting for the territory, scarring and changing the landscape in their scuffles. The potential hyperinflation in the economy with the sudden influx of precious metals, assassination attempts, political moves, potential fall of entire branches of the economy, etc. Now that I think about it, except for a few cases, killing a dragon isn't worth the effort for anyone.

Now I'm imaging a fat, nerdy dragon who's obsessed with showing his collection of "miniatures" to any adventurers unlucky enough to visit. (Edit: spelling)

POV: You snuck into the dragon's hoard and got set on fire.

Kobold Press's Tome of Beasts has Air Dragons that migrate on the wing for months on end like albatrosses. They have a super small horde of super valuable treasures that they keep clasped in their claws. I always found that interesting.

I've always wondered the effects dragons have on the economies of various kingdoms near them. Hoarding most of the currency, i suspect, would make a lot of guilds and rulers jealous/angry. Plus if you do manage to kill the dragon and claim it's horde, suddenly flooding the market in a spending spree isn't necessarily a good idea either. That's just the gold/jewels. Don't get me started on all the artifacts, art, and magical items they would have.

A red dragon in my game actually has a bunch of kobolds dressed in revolutionary war colonial uniforms having mock battles for entertainment.

Personally I assumed that dragons had hoards for the same reason as magpies and bower birds had shiny stuff.

Character idea: Kobolds who go out and join adventuring parties specifically to learn what magic items are available for their Dragon Lord, and eventually lure the party to their home so that the dragon can kill the adventures and as their gear to their hord.

Yes I agree DMing is basically it's own hobby because you get to craft your own lore and read on lore and do lots of other things so it basically is a sub hobby to D&D

AJ, you are amazing. Thank you for sharing your ideas with the world! Always a great watch.

awesome video topic!

I'm fond of the idea that dragons are compelled to hoard because as they age, their ability to absorb energy from the world around them improves. Eventually, dragons no longer need to hunt. By resting atop their hoard, they receive all the sustenance needed via magic. This also solves the issue of, in a world of super predators like dragons, they would over hunt the world. There wouldn't be enough food for their entire race. But I also like the idea that it's good for their scales. That's pretty dope.

I figure the reasons for the horde are multiple, and they all play a part in every dragon's horde. 1) Dragons are curious. They seek out things of interest, usually attractive oddities, because those things tickle the dragon's fancy. 2) Dragons are old. Even a relatively young dragon has lived 50 years or more. Think of how much junk a human acquires over their life and multiply that by a factor of 10 or 20 or 30. 3) Dragons have enemies. Stockpiling magic weapons, spell research, and valuable reagents not only gives the dragon a potential weapon but deprives a rival of that same weapon. 4) Dragons are vain. Much as humans may show off their possessions to impress neighbors, a dragon may gather impressive trinkets to one-up other dragons. 5) Dragons have minions. All but the most antisocial dragon is going to attract lesser races into their social orbit. A very old dragon might be a kingdom just by himself, with human nations signing treaties and making alliances as if the dragon were just another nation. A stockpile of valuables serves as adequate promise to bribe the lesser races of the world. There's more of course but those are the Big 5 for me.

Legend has it that if you capture a dragon he'll tell you where his pot of gold is... Oh wait wrong creature.

Great worldbuilding for how to handle progression through a campaign, especially the "what adventures do with the treasure?" portion which can fit with all type of situations

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I have returned to continue to request for a Bard and a monk class video please do it if you can.

Ah important lore

Yay! Excellent work, AJ!

I could see a grop of adventurers kill a dragon, and end up having to fund teh creation of a library with a dozen sages to figure out what all the crap in the hoard is.

Currently running a game where the party found a dragon hoard in a sunken ruin, in the middle of a very large lake. The hoard was only accessible by a magic portal that opened to the plain of water. It was kind of like an extra dimensional space that had a whirlpool pouring into it making it very difficult to get out once in unless you figured out the magic to...shut off the faucet as it were. They did and discovered a sea bed of coin and treasure plus a single dragon egg that was directly under the waterfall. They took the egg some coin and quickly picked out a single weapon they could see. Since shutting the water off alerted the Sea Dragon that was nearby. They fled to the surface just getting to the ship before the dragon could get to them. Then engaged in a fight as she would blast the ship and crew into the water to finish them off. However, they did manage to nearly kill her with the aid of ship canons before she fled. The next day they left the coastal town with the dragon egg, coin, and magic sword. Hiding the egg in a barrel filled with water. Days later they were met by some refuges of the town they left to find out it was destroyed by 2 Sea Dragons. Also, according to the reports one is clearly bigger than the other. They have done some research in the towns they have been to since looking up anything they can on hatching a dragon egg. Not much was found but they pooled their coin placed it in the barrel with the egg and water. This caused some color to return but not much. Eventually they found the best way to try and hatch the egg, besides letting the dragon do it, is to have it in freezing cold moving water, sitting on at least 1000 gp of coin, and turned over once a day. It would only hatch under a full moon under these conditions which has taken them a month in game time to figure out. Meanwhile they don't know that shipping has become more dangerous in the region lately due to sea creatures attacking ships. Loving this game so far.

Speaking of unusual dragonhoards. I just had a hilarious thought. Imagine a powerful dragon settles near a ruin in which there is a planar portal that is guarded by a gynosphinx. The dragon considers the portal part of its hoard, and the sphinx a minion specifically set to guard said piece of the hoard. The dragon also likes the sphinx because it has finally found someone highly intelligent with which to have conversations without risking its hoard. Of course, said dragon would get very angry if someone threatens or harms its sphinx. The sphinx itself is fine with the situation as it also gets someone to talk to who isn't interested in going through the portal.

What would a flight of dragons do on the hypothetical golden planet where all the rocks are gold and dirt is the rare resource?

Damn good video. When I am playing with my more roleplay loving players, I love putting kool, but questionably useful, items in hoards. Things like magic ovens, that can cook without a fuel source, or magic candles that light up when commanded, or sets of sports armor, for some fantasy version of hockey (and if they fail rolls, they have no idea what this stuff is). I don't detract much, or any, of the actual gold they get, but it adds to the bulk of the hoard (which like you said, I feel is important because they have to get it out of there) and every once in awhile it has lead to some hilarious incidents. I'll be re-watching this video next time I make a hoard. Thankx again AJ.

I havent watched in awhile but the dragon hoard brought me back

The David Eddings Red Gold is a cool idea for what might happen to draconic treasure. It is also a great call back to one of my favorite series of novels.

Did someone say dragons?

This was wonderful. Your videos on dragons have entirely changed the way I think about them and intend to implement them in campaigns; that suggested description of the Black dragon's layer was epic, and is just the newest instance of that.

I personally own a silver dragon in control of a clan of ice kobolds, living in a secluded citadel in Icewind Dale, over the generations the kobolds have acquired more and more silver blood and thus look the part... They are also a somewhat competent host of paladins and clerics. She acquires more riches by keeping the surrounded lands and roads safe and fetching tolls at key parts of them. As for what I envisioned her to do with her hoard? Invest into the citadel, shiny armaments, siege weaponry, ornate doors and gates, a vault door for her hoard. And she in my vision it is part of her healthy diet, something I borrowed from the book series "Age of Fire" essentially metals are part of the diet for healthy and sturdy scales, and the high silver and platinum content of her own diet is excellent for the shinyness and health of her coat of scales

LOL! When I saw the title I thought that it was about a HORDE of Dragons! I'm just picturing that, like a wave of very angry death sweeping across the land. This is much safer!

Cheers for taking the crazy time to put theses things together. I've wrote a campaign from level 1-5 using xp in a homebrew world and your videos are great at inspiring ideas! I hope you enjoy making them as much as I enjoy listening haha

What comes to mind is the series "Warehouse 13" :) With the dragon minions scouring the land to find dangerous items to the dragon and then store them 'safely' in a vault. Only to be found by real brave adventures. Or a dark vault with highly cursed items. If you haven't seen the series, it's a fun binge watch:-)

gemstones from any 2e elf-supplemental realms sourcebook are a good treat

My party accidentally got a city wiped out while a ancient wyrm chased us.

Dragon Hoards...AKA Murderhobo Piggy bank. Ways Of Dealing With Over Rich Players....The Tax Man Cometh (Backed By The Army), The Hoard's Former Owner Returns, and (My Personal Favorite) Are You SURE That's Real Gold. Programmed Illusion and Iron Pyrite have caused many a dragon's foe to languish in squalid conditions for the Horribly Horrendous Crime of issuing fake gold. I truly love my job...

I've started using your videos to create scenarios in the Aurora engine (yes I still play NWN), thanks for being consistent with the great ideas!

I wonder what exotic dragons horde Like do mercury dragons horde heavy metals?

Two characteristics all dragons share, no matter their type, are lust and arrogance. Many of the early cultural belief-systems, from which the myths of dragons originate, state that these creatures were simply physical manifestations of these two personality traits; arrogance and lust, personified. Both of these traits fuel the dragon's ambitions of wealth and power. It seems entirely plausible then, that their success or failure in acquiring wealth and power, would have a direct effect on their confidence-level; their self-esteem. And what is "exp", if-not in-part a manifestation of one's self-esteem? When viewed this way, it becomes perfectly obvious how and why a dragon's hoard would directly impact their level, hit-dice, CR, etc.

Good video AJ

Dragons describe gems and metals not just by color but by SMELL! Amethyst smells like lavender maybe gold a citrusy odor that maybe even tastes rather sour well! thanks for that bit of inspiration from this video amongst other things! This one is simply chock full of ideas!

I just had an interesting Idea! What if the long proximity to the dragon "infused" the treasures of its hoard with elemental energy? What if it now could also work as an conductor or empowers magic? Or what if it is so infused with magic, that it now creates minor phenomena if in a pile? Or tends to spontaniously discharge magic effects? I think that could be an interesting story point: the adventurers slay an really ancient Dragon and take its hoard, only to discover later, that the treasure is so infused with magic energy, that it spontaniously discharges magic effects, and/or spells cast within proximity to it have a high(er) chance of going wild, so they try to get rid of it as fast as possible, buying large amounts of stuff at different locations, changeing currency, etc. to spread it as far as possible, to minimize the risk of a sudden arcane explosion or something being their fault. Basically, the treasure turned into a powder keg that could detonate any time as long as a large amount of it is at one place, until the Magic dissipates.

I’m the loser dm with no players. But I fng love it. (Your vids are huge part of it all for me too. Very helpful and thorough Lore for idea and character inspiration)

@4:15 "Size will probably be a factor." It's confirmed then.

Wow, AJ. Inspirations galore First, the line about wealth, power and outrageous hats. Good one. This is what I took away from this: Your inference about Dragons and Dragonborn, the relation to sleep and elemental energies made me think about their lifespan (Where Dragonborn get ripped off....as well as tails and Darkvision. I mean, come on.) My thought was that hoards, especially coinage, leveled out a dragon's elemental energies and allowed for deeper and longer sleep. Dragons are well known for long periods of sleep. Deeper and longer sleep prolonged their lifespans. Therefore, more treasure equals a longer life. Simple self interest. Riffing off this, a Dragonborn might place coins inside their bedroll or pillow to ease their sleep. Not a lot, but just enough to get that effect. Perhaps the richer the coin, the fewer they need - using the scale of 1 gold on down to 100 copper. Furthermore, the concept of reshaping or repurposing treasure made me think about how such treasure would be personalized both to serve the needs of a particular dragon and also make it harder to just carry off. What if a Red Dragon used it's fiery breath to melt down gold and silver to be poured into molds and sculpted into massive statues of itself. Their hoard would be a gallery. Statuary and mirrors would appease it's vanity, project power, and ease it's sleep (see above). It would make theft difficult as each statue would weigh tons. Imagine the value of a gallery of gold statues and silver mirrors. Being accused or inferred that said dragon actually is paying tribute to a Gold Dragon could be the inciting incident to a massive attack and thus a campaign. Third, the idea of a Dragon being a benefactor or noble in an area, and entertaining guests with mock battles between "armies" of kobolds is hilarious. Restored siege weapons firing massive stuffed cloth "boulders" and armies of padded weapons performing for their "Lord" to the delight of the crowd... I've already taken running Dragons (and their related kin) very seriously, making them a huge threat. This just adds to the colour and depth of their lives. Well met, AJ. Well met.

Dragon hunting companies are second to none in secured transport. Anti Dragon Ballista are also anti bandit after all.

Figure maybe it’ll come into play if I ever accomplish my dream of having a self sufficient,offgrid cabin on my own land,in the wilderness. I will the. Spend lots of time there while writing books.

Which dragon has a copy of the Book of Vile Darkness written in the hand of Vecna and where on Krynn is the lair of Cyan Bloodbane?

Fun video idea I would enjoy for you: Dragon crafting Just watched your spell book and some of your artifact videos and latched onto the red dragon skin as book binding. Definitely like the concept of using all parts of a kill and most especially with dragons.

Why do dragons hoard treasure? For the same reason my dog rolls in stinky stuff or cats chase invisible birds. It's what they do.

My players killed 2 dragons and caused 1 to flee (it still harasses them), and now they complain about having too much money lol.

doesn't the Draconomicon from 3.5 explicitly state that they hoard treasure for "getting into" whatever post life they are trying to enter once they get to the Dragon Gravyard?

A gold dragon who walks Zakhara as a shepherd and gets high on the equivalent of spice melange. When she consumes it, she is said to have visions of the future. She will use her ability to help heroes if their cause is worthy.

in my capmaign, the dragon's avarice was a part of the elven high magic curse. A compulsive obsession that would further divide and create paranoia and hate between dragons; while also stirring conflict between the ambitious humans and dwarves. Who would seek out the precious metals hoarded by the dragons. Theres also an established "guild of Dragoneers" who's job is to render and break down dragon corpses and hoards through various portable workshops. (variations of the magnificent mansion spell) the slayer gets choice cuts of harvested components and some banking rights of the hoard. While the rest gets passed to the guild, the kingdom, and affiliated mage organizations who pay for lore and dragon parts. Within the hoard one might find massive crowns and rings as large as small houses; shaped to fit a tail and rest upon a draconic skull. 200 feet above is a mosaic of gems hidden in the shadows. that might never be seen by human eyes.... unless one were to be loosened by the battle and knock out/kill a hired merc, or fall unto a chest smashing its wooden frame.

I once had a dragon that used it's treasure to make large elaborate models of ships. She would melt down metal to form the structures. Also due to plane travels had models of things the characters could only guess what they were.

Soo good. Bravo! Your work is exelent and inspiring