Calculating dragon SR?

Napftor · Aug 13, 2002

I've been racking my brain for over an hour and still cannot deduce a formula for calculating a dragon's SR. Heck, it took just as long to figure out the breath weapon save DC!! Formulas you think work at first do not pan out. Any help is appreciated.

Wolf72 · Aug 13, 2002

ask this (or ask a mod to move it) into the creature catalog forum: general monster talk ...

Krishnath or Grazz't (or boz or erica or ...) should be able to help you out on that.

Napftor · Aug 13, 2002

Thanks, Wolf. Good idea. I'll just repost my question as you never know who might have an answer in here.

coyote6 · Aug 13, 2002

I'm not sure how they calculate initial spell resistance -- there may not be a formula. But all (non-epic) dragons seem to get SR (at some level) at young adult age; every age category after that, SR increases by 2.

FWIW, the formula for breath weapon save DCs is on p. 8 of the MM: 10 + 1/2 HD + Con mod.

Crothian · Aug 13, 2002

Grazzt said:
Breath weapon DC works standard (10 + 1/2 HD + Con bonus).

SR DC is as follows:

SR is (almost) always 10 + age category + Con bonus. There are a few dragons that don't follow this rule, but the majority do.

That's from Scott, the Creature Guy. He posted it over in the homebrew monster forum.