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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 9347567" data-attributes="member: 12731">For dragons, what I do is utterly ignore the limits of breath attack areas.That 30 ft cone? Have the dragon continuously exhale during its entire round's movement!So if it flies in a straight line with Speed 80, then it paints not a 30 by 30 square on the ground, but it moves one edge of that square 80 feet in one direction, so we're talking 30 by 110 feet.*This represents well that dragon's breath isn't an instantaneous shot like a paint ball, but an entire lung's worth of explosive fire. The dragon can now properly set multiple cottages on fire just in one strafe, instead of merely a single one.The impact on heroes is relatively low. Yes, it's no longer trivial to spread out in such a fashion the dragon can only target the melee bruisers of the group, but "cone dragons" doesn't actually do any additional damage to any one member of the group.Dragons that did lines do - they now get to do a combo. They both do the line AND a regular (non-continuous) cone of the same size. This represents a cloud dispersing off of that center beam. So an Adult Black Dragon doesn't cause the 60x140 squares conflagration of 18d6 fire that an Adult Red Dragon can do, but it does do a 60 ft line AND a 60 ft cone (in the same direction). The Fighter that stands in the dragon's face is hit by both line and cone and need to do two Dex saves and takes up to 24d8 acid damage.This makes "line dragons" more concerting to adventurers, while "cone dragons" remain the premiere source of "countryside anxiety"...*) A really devious "cone dragon" would, like most well-optimized players, of course know that moving diagonally is far superior to moving in a line that's straight on graph paper. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f608.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":devilish:" title="Devil    :devilish:"  data-smilie="29"data-shortname=":devilish:" /></blockquote>

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