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Yeah, with you on that; at least we went through it thoroughly. ;)

Probably Con damage, but with a cap on the damage perhaps. No other dragon has such a breath weapon effect, though the astral dragon's scouring breath does flay the skin like a sandstorm (hp damage), and the sand dragon's gritty breath acts like a flaywind (Sandstorm).

I re-read the breath weapon. At first impression it did appear to have an entanglement effect to me, but now slow does seem sufficient. I was thinking along the lines of, if a breath weapons coats the target in something (semi-)solid, it's gotta entangle or slow that.

This reminds me of the entangling/entrapping breaths of the 2e obsidian dragon (unrelated to the renegade 3e gem dragon), amber dragon, and moon dragon. Can we adapt the entangled condition?

"Pastel" dragon? :lol: Or, based on their purported origins, tourmaline or opal, since these are the two popular multicolor gemstones. (I do use both for homebrew dragons.) Perhaps we can modify the effects of horrid wilting with regard to the damage to watery creatures? I've considered that as...

Ditto.

Almost done. Just need to add the Hold Breath ability and its Con modifier multiplier. 10x perhaps?

Good choices for skills.

Brass, white, and mist dragons, among others, only have 1 die progression for breaths so the pearl dragon is in their league. IMHO the 3E crystal dragon should have too but that's moot now. ;)

I'd exempt Cha from the -1 (and maybe even raise it) because it's supposed to be a superior spellcaster to the jade, right, so at least the save DCs for its spells should be a bit higher. Otherwise, a Tiny 4d12 wyrmling with a 1d6 breath (+2 progression) seems modest enough.

Too bad it's not a true aquatic (water-breathing) dragon coz we have so few of them. Ah well. I've my own homebrew pearl dragon. No aquatic or water subtype for this, as it doesn't breathe water. It should have a hold breath ability like many of the Stormwrack creatures. Steam breath is...

This is my take, but maybe for 3e it would discourage the DM from using them as special/alternative familiars.

Sounds done. What's next?

True that (on the CR). I wish Lockwood would draw it!

Wizards did nerf the faerie dragon, so yeah, let's keep the hawkdragon simple. Ref save for Eye Gouge (ouch!) is good. I was thinking more of 1d6 rounds between breaths like one of the lost chromatic dragons (orange I think), but 1d4+1 (as if it used a metabreath feat) is ok too.

Off the top of my head, there's a desert-dwelling dragon, the brown one I think, whose SLA were mostly summoning more powerful earth elementals as it ages, so that's a narrow set of SLAs for a true dragon. If we're going to give the hawkdragon SLAs at all we can merely increment the effect as it...

Had some technical issues so I couldn't join in for the rest of the bestial dragon talk, but now I'm back. Some quick impressions on the hawkdragon: Seems like a small critter; it should only be modestly-sized at great wyrm. It ages rapidly, maybe as fast as the rattelyr in Shining South...

AFIAK the only other dragon that can control its air movement drastically is the yellow dragon with its air mastery ability.

1d8 sounds like a good balance for me. Without the flying inferno, reduce both maneuverability by one grade and speed by 50 ft. then?

Looks like an evil counterpart of the couatl, or an evil amphiptere. We can look to other serpentine dragons like the Styx dragon for constrict damage progression if we're not going to keep the values in the table. Seems like Small to Gargantuan.