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Good choice for class skills.

Dragon Magic has these variant SLA's for green dragons: entangle (adult), commune with nature (old), and acid fog (ancient). The first two seem suited for the jade. Or maybe one of the hold enchantment spells.

Yes, that's a more elegant solution.

Both wasting diseases deal Cha damage. I assume they were meant to be non-lethal. If it's Con then it's similar to the fang dragon's bite, if Str then it's similar to the gold dragon's weakening breath. I'm willing to go with Con. (Cha damage reminds me a bit too much of the oinoloth's power...

Well I'm glad you find sapphires awesome. BTW, did you use it with my suggested psionic update (shameless plug)? And no, the link in my sig is now broken. Migrating to Webring and made a wiki entry at Wizards.

And the well spirit's being converted right now.

To put it another way, AC is +1 better than green's as the onyx is to the black, so natural AC=HD again perhaps? It has the best arcane spellcasting progression among the gems, but focuses on more low-level divine spells at the cost of higher-level spells. Also… XP value differs from green...

In as much as I would want potential 4e gem dragons to be tied in some small way to psionics, I will wait and see and give anyone redoing them the benefit of the doubt. Play on the appearance of gem dragons' scales. Have a PC wonder why their scales are faceted and translucent, totally unlike...

If ever, give us a hint. (Or give me a hint ;) I'm crazy for gem dragons.)

Ok, green, er, jade then.

Actually there's no mention of any scent whatsoever. By virtue of not being mentioned I'd guess they smell differently sinceI assumemost 2e adventurers didn't put too much stock in developing their olfactory sense. Plus it would add to the sensible differences between black and onyx dragons...

The darkness effect of the breath weapon sounds closest to two betabreath feats in Draconomicon: Clinging Breath (breath clings to targets in area of effect for 1 round after initial round for half damage, same Reflex Save DC, may be magically dispelled at same DC); and Lingering Breath (breath...

Now that I think of it, in 3.5e elementals run the gamut of abilities from very weak (elementite swarm) to strong (elemental monoliths) to god-like (archomentals). So an extremely intelligent elemental that grants wishes isn't really out of place. And the elemental weirds also look like feminine...

Spell progression for the black and onyx dragons is identical, except that one uses wizard and the other priest spells. In 3.5e terms, this would mean sorcerer and cleric spellcasting levels respectively. So the onyx should have levels 1-15 as well beginning at young adult. If they are clerical...

A lesser and greater water spirit split sounds good. It reminds me of the djinni/noble djinni dichotomy with only the latter granting wishes as well. And with its guardianship of wells godlike Int it begs for adaptation into Oriental Adventures as an elemental with the spirit subtype. I wonder...

Most stats identical to 2e black dragon. I'm highlighting the differences below. Equal to white dragon. SR is equal to that of white dragon. XP value is lower than that of white dragon. The picture of the 2e onyx dragon is very similar to that of the 2e black dragon, to the point of having...

We can do it from weakest to strongest, in which case onyx is first. It's also the easiest to adapt, from its black counterpart.

Go for it Shade. Let's have the intro for the gem dragons. BTW, something to add, the Vaults of Pandius website for Mystara has its own conversions and I've seen them, but I deliberately did not reference them so as not to be influenced. After all, this is the Creature Catalog's own take.

Well yep, I went through the stats of the gem dragons; and for the most part they're simply minor tweaks of existing dragons, essentially that of their colored counterpart. For example, onyx is almost identical to black (with a dash of white stats thrown in), jade to green, ruby a mix of blue...

Yep, the demon drake looks done! What's next?