Converting True Dragons

[freyar]

Looks good to me!

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Crystalline dragons subsist on a diet of ore and gems. They are also particularly fond of the crystallized remnants of adventurers’ equipment, considering them a special taste treat. Glaciers are an ideal home, because as they slowly crawl across continents they scrape up tons of rock and soil. The crystalline dragon uses its massive, sharp claws to burrow through the hard-packed ice in search of veins of mineral-rich strata scraped centuries before from the earth’s skin.

*Can also cast cleric spells and those from the x, x, and x domains as arcane spells.

x = Law, Sun, Weather? Maybe Earth? Footnote for Cold if using Frostburn?

Skills: x, x, and x are considered class skills for crystalline dragons.

x = Appraise, Hide, Move Silently?

 

[freyar]

I like those choices. I'd go with Weather over Earth and probably a sidebar for Cold over Weather with Frostburn.


Skills seem good.

 

[RavinRay]

Agreed with freyar on the domains (Cold is in Spell Compendium too right?), just a wee bit hesitant on Sun but its workable.

 

[Shade]

Updated. Anything left?

 

[freyar]

A quick glance didn't reveal anything missing. I think it's good to go!

 

[Shade]

Dragon, Bestiary

CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Tropical regions
FREQUENCY: Very rare
ORGANIZATION: Solitary
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Any
DIET: Carnivore
INTELLIGENCE: Average (8-9)
TREASURE: See table
ALIGNMENT: Neutral evil
NO. APPEARING: 1
ARMOR CLASS: -2 (base; see table)
MOVEMENT: 9, Fl 30(C), Jp 3
HIT DICE: 12 (base; see table)
THAC0: 9
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1 bite or 1 tail
DAMAGE PER ATTACK: 1d8 or 2d6
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Constriction, heat aura
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
MAGIC RESISTANCE: See table
SIZE: G (50' base)
MORALE: Fanatic (17-18)
XP VALUE: See table

Dragon: The bestiary version of this reptile differs from the game version in that it is a giant winged serpent rather than a giant winged lizard. It has a crest and a weak bite, but its tail can deliver a powerful clubbing blow. This dragon kills by constriction, like a python. The dragon is large enough to constrict elephants.

When it flies, the air around it in a 10' radius becomes superheated; all within the radius take the damage noted in the dragon's statistics table. Note that once the dragon lands, the air around it becomes normal in temperature. Dragons are not harmed by any heat, magical or natural.

Age categories given in the table are the same as those under "Dragon" in the Monstrous Manual.

Originally appeared in Dragon Magazine #199 (1993).

 

[RavinRay]

Looks like an evil counterpart of the couatl, or an evil amphiptere. We can look to other serpentine dragons like the Styx dragon for constrict damage progression if we're not going to keep the values in the table. Seems like Small to Gargantuan.

 

[Cleon]

Looks like an evil counterpart of the couatl, or an evil amphiptere. We can look to other serpentine dragons like the Styx dragon for constrict damage progression if we're not going to keep the values in the table. Seems like Small to Gargantuan.

Don't think we need to stat these with age categories, we can just do a standard "Bestiary Dragon" as a 12 HD monster and allow it to advance a few size categories.

 

[freyar]

I dunno, might be neat to have a beastial true dragon. But I see where you're coming from.