Converting True Dragons

Cleon · May 23, 2010

freyar said:
Cleon's suggestions look pretty good. Maybe mirage arcana or hallucinatory terrain following Shade's suggestion?

Sure, of those two I prefer hallucinatory terrain as I don't see these dragons having much to do with buildings, hallucinatory or otherwise.

We need to decide on the age categories and the details of its "improved song of freedom". How about this:

Juvenile - control water

Adult - hallucinatory terrain

Old - solid fog

Ancient - roar of freedom
Roar of Freedom (Su) - Three times a day, an ancient pearl dragon can utter a thrilling roar that functions as a break enchantment spell on the dragon or a single willing ally within 30 feet. The caster level equals the dragon's sorcerer spellcasting level.

Great Wyrm - control weather

freyar · May 24, 2010

I think that could work.

Cleon · May 24, 2010

freyar said:
I think that could work.

Shall I edit those special abilities in the rough draft then?

Shade · May 25, 2010

Cleon said:
Shall I edit those special abilities in the rough draft then?

I've already got a Homebrews going, so no need. I'll update it after lunch.

Shade · May 25, 2010

Updated.

We'll need to decide the daily uses of each ability.

control water 3/day?
hallucinatory terrain 1/day?
solid fog 3/day?
control weather 1/day?

freyar · May 26, 2010

Fair enough.

Just skills now? Swim, clearly. Maybe Appraise for the pearl diving. And Spellcraft might fit since they're great casters.

RavinRay · May 26, 2010

Good choices for skills.

Shade · May 26, 2010

Updated.

No subtype on this one?

Environment: Any coastal land?

Treasure: x (Obviously, lots and lots of pearls)

CR and LA could be tricky on this one. Although it has less HD than most other true dragons, its spellcasting rivals the best metallics.

freyar · May 26, 2010

Agreed.
Agreed.
Triple Standard (all goods are pearls)?
CR like the bronze might work. Maybe.

Cleon · May 27, 2010

Shade said:
Updated.

No subtype on this one?

Yes, these look like no-subtype dragons.

Shade said:
Environment: Any coastal land?

These live in the water to, so I was thinking more:

Environment: Any coastal aquatic or coasts and islands

Shade said:
Treasure: x (Obviously, lots and lots of pearls)

Treasure: Triple standard (all gems are pearls) ?

Shade said:
CR and LA could be tricky on this one. Although it has less HD than most other true dragons, its spellcasting rivals the best metallics.

Well that suggests their CR should be somewhere in between, maybe the average of a White Dragon (for the weak physicality) and a Silver Dragon (for the powerful spelluse)?

White Dragon: Wyrmling 2; very young 3; young 4; juvenile 6; young adult 8; adult 10; mature adult 12; old 15; very old 17; ancient 18; wyrm 19; great wyrm 21

Silver Dragon: Wyrmling 4; very young 5; young 7; juvenile 10; young adult 13; adult 15; mature adult 18; old 20; very old 21; ancient 23; wyrm 24; great wyrm 26

Averaging them would work out:

Pearl Dragon: Wyrmling 3; very young 4; young 5-6; juvenile 8; young adult 10-11; adult 12-13; mature adult 15; old 17-18; very old 19; ancient 20-21; wyrm 21-22; great wyrm 23-24

Hmm, if we use that at a baseline and add a minimum CR of caster level +6 that might be better. It'd give us:

Pearl Dragon: Wyrmling 3; very young 4; young 6; juvenile 8; young adult 10; adult 12; mature adult 15; old 17; very old 19; ancient 21; wyrm 23; great wyrm 25

That looks about right, it gives it the biggest jumps in CR at Young (when it first gains spellcasting) and adult (when it becomes Large).