Do dragons sleep?

[glass]

Anyways, a Dragon DOES sleep, if you check in the MM (near the back, 3.5, at least) there's a table that says stuff about each type/sub-type. It says that Dragons DO sleep and eat. Anyways, Dragons can be snuck up on, but it would most likely take a 20 to do so, they're highly alert and are extremely cautious, mostly.

There is nothing special about a 20 on a skill check. If a character with no bunus can make it on a 20, then a character with a +19 bonus can make it on a 1.

In the case of a non-sleeping dragon, you can't sneak up on it (barring some kind of special ability or feat). It's blindsense ability will trump and H/MS rolls, no matter how good.

Whether the same applies to a sleeping dragon is unclear. If it's blindsense is fully functional, then it doesn' need to make the listen check and will awaken. And blindsense is based on hearing, which you can do while asleep, which suggests yes. OTOH, blindsesne is only partly based on hearing, and hearing works with reduced capability while asleep, so you could argue that blindsense doesn't work while asleep, or that it only works with reduced capacity.

I don't believe ther is a definitive answer to this, but my ruling would be that blindsense works at reduced capacity while asleep. It does not remove the need for the listen check to awaken, but it does remove the penalty to it.


glass.

 

[diaglo]

just what the Giant ordered: http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=224

 

[Evilhalfling]

just what the Giant ordered: http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=224

This makes me happy

 

[Corsair]

The rules also don't actually describe what being "dead" is. So what?

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Plus, with thousands of years of life and no tv, what else is there to do to pass the time?

Of course, there is TV. Tele-Vision = Looking into the Distance. It's called Scrying. And, depending on the dragon and his type, they either wander the lands to dispense wisdom (read: be the biggest wise-asses the lands have seen), lead unwary mortals to their doom, or just devastate whole kingdoms.

Aaaah, to be old - and also a dragon!

 

[Ranes]

That sounds tasty, what are the pre-reqs for it?

The feat has no prerequisites but it only works when you hide. It does not function if you are moving silently.

 

[Aaron L]

Well, since the fantasy trope of the sleeping dragon is QUITE pevalent, and it doesnt say that they DONT sleep, Id say that yes, yes they do.


After all, it doesnt say that they go potty, either, but Id still assume that they do.

 

[Aaron L]

The rules also don't actually describe what being "dead" is. So what?

...

Dead

The character’s hit points are reduced to -10, his Constitution drops to 0, or he is killed outright by a spell or effect. The character’s soul leaves his body. Dead characters cannot benefit from normal or magical healing, but they can be restored to life via magic. A dead body decays normally unless magically preserved, but magic that restores a dead character to life also restores the body either to full health or to its condition at the time of death (depending on the spell or device). Either way, resurrected characters need not worry about rigor mortis, decomposition, and other conditions that affect dead bodies.

 

[the Jester]

Ahh, sleeping dragons...

Remember 1st edition, when all dragons had a chance of being asleep when encountered?

 

[Aeric]

Ahh, sleeping dragons...

Remember 1st edition, when all dragons had a chance of being asleep when encountered?

Don't forget subdual rules. And the fact that there was a market for subdued dragons in every large city. I always wanted to subdue a dragon, take it to town, and sell it. Can you imagine what that interaction would have been like? I mean, what does one do with a live dragon, anyways? All it does is sleep....