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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 4869208" data-attributes="member: 60886">What you say is kinda true for the youngest dragons, but I think most breath weapons are about more than damage, and older dragons get to stack on some nasty stuff.  If you really want scarier breath weapons you could give younger dragons versions of the ancient's abilities. (oh, and a resist 10 potion is level 14, iirc)Black - a potion will negate maybe 1/2 to 2/3 of the damage, but the -4 AC penalty is much nastier, really.  Later on they can blind you, too... stumbling around in the dark with crumbling armor sounds scary to me.Blue - deal a LOT of damage with their breath weapon, the potion will barely negate half.  Plus elder/ancient blues can also Wing Clap for thunder damage, and potions alone can't give you resistance to both.  They're also artillery monsters with surprisingly strong melee options, which is pretty scary.Green - a potion will negate most of the damage, but there's still the slow effect (and aftereffect).  And good god, Mind Poison is nasty; it's pretty close to "save or lose".  Fortunately only ancients can use it.Red - ancient reds have a decent shot at totally negating your resistance every time they breathe on you, -and- they have an aura, -and- they can immolate you.  Honestly I think you're expected to have resist fire 15 to even survive against an ancient red dragon.  Resist fire does help a lot against younger reds, but they have the defenses and hit points to just outlast wimpy PCs.White - in some ways have the scariest breath weapon... big damage (you'll be lucky if a potion negates half), plus -all- ages slow and weaken on a hit.  And elder/ancient have Icy Tomb... have fun being stunned.  The ancient can negate the resistance, -and- has an aura that deals 30 damage... again, I think you're expected to have cold resistance to even take on an ancient white dragon.That's just the MM, the other chromatics in Draconomicon have riders as well.  And the metallic dragons are generally even more focused on doing nasty things other than damage with their breath weapons.</blockquote>

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