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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8101457" data-attributes="member: 5889">Hot damn, now that's a scary breath weapon! Honestly it might even be too much, though of course at CR 30 its literally kitchen sink time for the DM. A possible alternative (though I still like the original model so I'm not sold this is better, just different).Breath Weapon: If a target fails their saving throw by 10 or more, they are considered to have failed their save against a disintegrate spell.On the one hand, your method does a lot more raw damage. But a disintegrate does have the advantage of killing them at 0 and preventing any "auto recoveries" when you hit 0 that some creatures get, so it does have some spice to it. It also forces "real" resurrection, not that 5th level bargain bin stuff<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Purely for flavor, but I thought about the idea that this dragon is so scary that it lingers for days or even weeks (I figure in the high CRs we can just go a bit ham and over the top). See what you think.Frightful Presence. Each creature of the dragon’s choice within 240 feet of the dragon and aware of it must succeed on a DC 26 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute and suffers from the Creature of Nightmares effect on their next long rest. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature’s saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the dragon’s Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.Creature of Nightmares: The next time the target takes a long rest, it is subject to the nightmare version of the Dream spell, with a saving throw equal to the frightful presence DC. The target is subject to this effect on each long rest until it passes the saving throw.</blockquote>

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