So I have a dragon, and I need to fill its horde. I've determined it has 76,000 gold worth of magic items, but I'm at a loss of what magic items a dragon would find useful. I'd rather not give it any stat boosters or AC items, so what left is there?
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Amulet of Mighty Fists +1-+2 The dragon will wear this. It is good Loot for Druids, Monks, Brawler, Natural Attack builds, Dragons, Animal companions.
Blessed Book- This is a God send for a Wizard, Magus, and Arcanist
Scrolls- Because Dragons love magic and so does Adventurers
Gems and Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Copper- A good portion needs to be loose coins and valuable gems for the dragon to cuddle and lay on
Potions of Resist Dragon's Element- It seems rational that a dragon would Horde something that would help defeat him.
Dragon Bane Weapons or Weapons with Opposed Elemental effect- Like Above I believe as a dragon you would want to Horde and Hide away weapons that would do you harm. This is true in Rise of the Runelords book 5. The Ancient White Dragon had Flametongue and Potions of Resist Cold among his Horde.
Valuable Artworks- Statues tend to be the main thing they like but Painted pictures of Rarity or Ancient Original Play writes, poems, and songs can all be items a Dragon would Horde. Only one left in the world and the ability to keep Lesser beings from experiencing it makes the dragon happy.
A set of Magical Full Plate or Celestial Armor- Perhaps the dragon met a knight who was a very challenging foe and the Dragon kept his nice shiny armor as a tribute to his own strength.
Staff- Like scrolls Dragons love magic...and a dragon could use a staff.
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I second "stuff that could help defeat it," because past foes would often have known what they were going up against and armed themselves accordingly. These items should not be lying out where they can be snatched up by PCs while the dragon still lives.
Ioun Stones for spell absorption, spell storing, and regeneration.
A bag of devouring, for posthumous revenge.
Crystal ball, to watch some immobile creatures it's planted at strategic locations on the way to its lair (because you have to scry a creature, not a location directly for some reason). Admittedly it's only marble-sized to a dragon, but you could usefully scry in a marble.
Wearable wondrous items resize to fit the wearer, so it could potentially wear most of them (hands and feet are the wrong shapes). Belt of stoneskin, robe of scintillating colors, quick runner's shirt, hand of glory with any of a large number of rings, bracelet of second chances (the rogues will hate you), something for the eyes, head, headband, shoulders.
If magic items, then anything they can use. Then proceed to use them against the party. Wands/rods/staffs, resizing rings, and especially something that enables them to transform into demihuman form. 'The old man at the crossroads' is a wonderful trick for a dragon to play, especially if it can get the adventurers to brag about what they're carrying. "Oooo, that's a mighty fine bow you have there, sonny." "This is Dragonslayer, a +4 dragonbane composite bow of speed." 'Wow, you gonna take on the red dragon what lives in these hills, been layin' waste to us for decades?' "That's the plan, old man." ''Spect you got an arrow of red dragon slayin' in there too, eh?' "I do indeed."
First target: archer. :P
A dragon - in my opinion - will have anything it can use, or anything that can be used against it. And the gadget that lets it shift into demihuman form will allow it to sell the crap it doesn't care about.
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Ring of Evasion, Ring of Spell Turning, or RIng of Invisibility are all great items for Dragons.
Traps, plus coin to pay servants