Converting True Dragons

[freyar]

That's all fine with me! Do these need any other special abilities?

 

[Shade]

Though minidragons have 60’ infravision, they are not usually nocturnal. When trying to frighten or warn off a creature, they are capable of emitting a very loud and piercing hiss. Minidragons are also able to spit harmless spittle at an opponent, perhaps for the purpose of frightening it

Racial bonus on Intimidate checks?

 

[freyar]

Nice idea!

 

[Shade]

Updated.

For corrosive spit, Ex like an ankheg's spit acid ability, or Su like a dragon's breath weapon?

We can probably modify the following to include the symbol of pain effect Cleon described above, and damage to armor...

Spit Acid (Ex): 30-ft. line, once every 6 hours; damage 4d4 acid, Reflex DC 14 half. One such attack depletes the ankheg's acid supply for 6 hours. It cannot spit acid or deal acid damage during this time. The save DC is Constitution-based.

 

[Cleon]

Racial bonus on Intimidate checks?

That's a great fit! A +4 bonus?

 

[Cleon]

Updated.

For corrosive spit, Ex like an ankheg's spit acid ability, or Su like a dragon's breath weapon?

We can probably modify the following to include the symbol of pain effect Cleon described above, and damage to armor...

Spit Acid (Ex): 30-ft. line, once every 6 hours; damage 4d4 acid, Reflex DC 14 half. One such attack depletes the ankheg's acid supply for 6 hours. It cannot spit acid or deal acid damage during this time. The save DC is Constitution-based.

Hmm, I think I'd prefer once every 1d4+1 rounds like standard dragon's breath weapon. The original beastie's four times per day is actually more frequent than a standard 1E dragon.

Rather than a line, I was thinking a 60 foot ranged touch attack.

As for the equipment damaging, we could just have some kind of reduce/ignore hardness rule.

Something like:

Spit Acid (Ex): Once every 1d4 rounds a minidragon can spit corrosive fluid as a 60 ft. ranged touch attack doing X acid damage. Any creature struck by this spittle must make a DC Y Will save or suffer excruciating agony for 1d4+2 round, during which they take a -4 penalty on attack rolls, skill checks and ability checks. Furthermore, this acid dissolves wood, stone and metal as easily as it does flesh, ignoring the first Z points of hardness of any object it strikes. The save DC is Constitution-based.

4d4 acid damage, ignores the first 10 points of hardness?

 

[Shade]

That all sounds reasonable. If we're making it like a breath weapon in frequency, then I suggest Su like dragons' breath weapons.

 

[Cleon]

That all sounds reasonable. If we're making it like a breath weapon in frequency, then I suggest Su like dragons' breath weapons.

We could do that, although it doesn't really make much difference at this CR.

 

[freyar]

Seems pretty good to me, although I prefer a Fort save to avoid the excruciating agony. Just seems like a physical effect to me.

 

[Cleon]

Seems pretty good to me, although I prefer a Fort save to avoid the excruciating agony. Just seems like a physical effect to me.

That makes sense.

For some reason I thought a symbol of pain used a Will save, but after looking it up it's Fort.