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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6955344" data-attributes="member: 20323">[MENTION=15927]ppward[/MENTION] Also was running an adaptation of Night Below for 5e! Good times!My suggestion is that you look to the vampire's bite as a model for the Fang Dragon. IIRC correctly, the original AD&D Fang Dragon permanently drained hit points which the Fang Dragon gained. That sounds like it calls for directly stealing the 5e vampire's bite attack.More specifically, it does the last bit of your Draining Bite ("any extra hit points gained by Constitution/level are lost") without the calculation headache. 5e is meant to be easy to run at the table, no need to complicate it.There are no Constitution-based attacks in 5e, so that part of Draining Bite is superfluous.I really don't think disadvantage on Constitution checks and saving throws is necessary is you do the vampire's bite thing I mentioned, but you could always include that if you feel it's important. One thing I would encourage you to keep aware of is that if there's no Recharge limit on the Fang Dragon's bite (I'm assuming there isn't), and the save vs. its bite is Constitution, and it can inflict disadvantage on CON saves, well then you have a nasty feedback loop that will terrify players!</blockquote>