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[Negflar2099]

Or you know White Dragon + Blood = Pink?

 

[Pbartender]

There are pink dragons?

From Dragon #156, "Not Necessarily the Monstrous Compendium", April 1990...

PINK DRAGON
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Any
FREQUENCY: Really, really rare
ORGANIZATION: Family group
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Any
DIET: Carnivore
INTELLIGENCE: High
TREASURE: E
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic neutral
NO. APPEARING: 1-4
ARMOR CLASS: 2
MOVEMENT: 9, Fly 18 (B)
HIT DICE: 6-8
THAC0: 15 (6 HD) or 13 (7-8 HD)
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3 (claw/claw/bite)
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-6/1-6/3-18
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Breath weapon, possible spell use
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Possible spell use
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard
SIZE: L (up to 36' long)
MORALE: Average (10)
XP VALUE: 650 to 2,000

Pink dragons can be found almost anywhere, most frequently in some form of underground lair. Many hapless adventurers have been fatally fooled by the dragon's dopey appearance and delicate pink coloration. Pink dragons love to talk, but they are prone to eat those who do not laugh at their jokes.

The breath weapon of the pink dragon is highly unusual. A special stomach serves to mix fatty secretions with a fluid closely resembling lye. The resulting goop produces the breath weapon, a bubble cloud similar to that produced by a horn of bubbles. This cloud is 60' long, 50' wide, and 20' high, and it lasts 2-12 rounds. Anyone trapped in this cloud is painfully blinded for 4-16 rounds due to soap in his eyes, making magic virtually impossible to cast; this places a -6 penalty on all attack rolls, saving throws, and damage (1 hp damage minimum), and negates dexterity bonuses to armor class. Movement is random as the affected person stumbles around. A successful save vs. breath weapon indicates that the character closed his eyes before the soap affected them, in which case only the normal penalties for fighting blind apply, without the distraction caused by the pain of the soap in the eyes. If the victim's eyes are protected, as by goggles, the obscuring effects alone are operative, giving only a -2 modifier to hit for as long as the bubbles last. There is no saving throw against the obscurement effect, as the cloud also affects infravision and ultravision. When the bubble cloud is in place, the dragon merely closes his transparent protective third eyelids and, using a batlike sonar, attacks with his highly accurate claw/claw/bite routine.

Those few pink dragons able to use magic (20%) gain one first-level mage spell (as per illusionists), determined randomly, for each stage of growth. If a spell is rolled twice, the dragon is able to use that spell twice per day. Due to the somewhat silly appearance of the pink dragon, it completely lacks any sort of fear aura.

 

[Rechan]

This must have been a deleted scene from "The Sword in the Stone".

There are pink dragons?

 

[MarkB]

There are pink dragons?

Well, OotS's flat-toned colouring style doesn't lend itself well to metallic tints, but I'm thinking it might be Platinum.

On another note, Erfworld has been excellent these past few strips, and looks like it's about to seriously heat up. Can't wait to see what happens next.

 

[Nymrohd]

I should have known someone would have written up a pink dragon during the history of D&D. Heck there is probably a polka dot dragon statted up somewhere . . .
Seems even V's mate does not recognize V in this state (or he/she does yet discounts the possibility of that evil mage being the V he/she knows and loves).
Also, no this is not a white dragon covered in blood. The wings are purple. Maybe frothy gore on a white background would look somewhat pink, but not purple.

 

[Pbartender]

I should have known someone would have written up a pink dragon during the history of D&D. Heck there is probably a polka dot dragon statted up somewhere . . .
Seems even V's mate does not recognize V in this state (or he/she does yet discounts the possibility of that evil mage being the V he/she knows and loves).
Also, no this is not a white dragon covered in blood. The wings are purple. Maybe frothy gore on a white background would look somewhat pink, but not purple.

Besides, Rich's precedent is normally for gore to show up as red splotches.

 

[Nymrohd]

Also I'm sure the pink dragon is gonna give us at least a couple of jokes for the next strip.

Btw does shapechange work that way? I thought you cannot change shape if the space you are in cannot contain the new form.

 

[Greylock]

The purple wings belong to the deceased dragon. Ms/Mr Pink has gray ones.

hth

 

[DaveMage]

Btw does shapechange work that way? I thought you cannot change shape if the space you are in cannot contain the new form.

I just looked it up - unless I missed it, it doesn't say anything about the space the new form takes up.

 

[MarkB]

Btw does shapechange work that way? I thought you cannot change shape if the space you are in cannot contain the new form.

I thought so too, but a quick trawl through the SRD found nothing of the sort in the Shapechange rules, nor in those of the parent spells Polymorph and Alter Self, nor in the general spellcasting rules. The closest I got was the following text under Enlarge Person:

If insufficient room is available for the desired growth, the creature attains the maximum possible size and may make a Strength check (using its increased Strength) to burst any enclosures in the process. If it fails, it is constrained without harm by the materials enclosing it— the spell cannot be used to crush a creature by increasing its size.

Assuming that restriction could be applied to Shapechange, I guess V succeeded on the required Strength check.