Converting True Dragons

[freyar]

So, dealing with breath weapons only, something like

Black: line of acid
Blue: line of electricity
Brass: cone of sleep gas
Bronze: cone of repulsion gas
Gold: cone of fire (or could go with weakening gas)
Green: cone of acid
Red: cone of fire
Silver: cone of paralyzing gas
White: cone of cold

Special gases as described in the corresponding metallic dragons. I think we should probably go with weakening gas for the Gold, just to keep the thematic separation of the metallics and chromatics.

Stick to 3/day or go to the usual 1d4 round wait time? These are sort of true dragons, so I'd prefer the 1d4 rounds, I think.

 

[Shade]

I agree with the gas for gold (is that like Cash 4 Gold?) and the standard dragon breath weapon recharge period.

 

[freyar]

Here we go, then:

Breath Weapon (Su): Each faerie drake has one type of breath weapon determined by its color as in the table below. The drake may use its breath weapon every 1d4 rounds. The gas attacks of the metallic faerie drakes are the same as those of the corresponding metallic dragons. The line breath weapons are 30 ft long, and cone breath weapons are 15 ft, as for Tiny true dragons. The save DCs are Constitution-based.
Black: line of acid
Blue: line of electricity
Brass: cone of sleep gas
Bronze: cone of repulsion gas
Copper: cone of slow gas
Gold: cone of weakening gas
Green: cone of acid
Red: cone of fire
Silver: cone of paralyzing gas
White: cone of cold

 

[RavinRay]

I'm good with the breath weapon list; the metallics get the secondary non-lethal breath weapons of their true dragon counterparts (slow for copper). Y'know, they'd make perfect dragonkith companions to the latter for those using the Draconomicon.

 

[freyar]

Oops, forgot copper! Putting that back in and switching it to a cone, as for the true dragon.

 

[Shade]

Lookin' good. I'll try to update these and see where we're at before I leave for vacation.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

I'm assuming faerie drakes should not gain frightful presence like other true dragons?

Should AC change with age? If so, how? Deflection bonus based on age category, or maybe Charisma? Since they are feylike, borrow unearthly grace?

Suggested SR progression?

Suggested breath weapon damage progression?

 

[freyar]

No frightful presence.

Unearthly grace sounds fine, or we could have a Dex progression.

Not sure about SR.

What about 1d4 or 1d6 per age category?

Should we list that immunities are the same as corresponding true dragons?

 

[Shade]

Do we want a replacement for frightful presence (like we've done with "awesome presence" and the like), or just drop it?

Let's go with unearthly grace rather than a Dex progression

1d6/category is probably reasonable. I'm afraid that 1d4 would put the chromatics at a disadvantage.

We should probably list a nice table for the immunities so folks won't have to reference another creature entry.

 

[freyar]

Let's drop frightful presence.

I'll agree with the rest (though do you really want to copy all the text from the special metallic breath weapons?).