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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 4828150" data-attributes="member: 5948">Flavourwise I'm a big fan of the Xorvintaal template, but I think it's a little bit underpowered for its CR.  Losing the spellcasting is a big hit, but losing spell resistance as well really hurts.  Sure you can get it back by taking Awaken Spell Resistance, but that's a feat you could be using on other stuff.  I really like the Twist of Fate ability cos it gives the dragon a bunch of new options as immediate actions (the action economy really hurts a lone dragon against a group of 4-6 PCs), Dragon Toxin is really nasty, and Alternate Form is great for a dragon's strategic options, though not so much if the dragon is only going to be used as a big nasty fight.  A Xorvintaal dragon's CR assumes that the dragon has a couple of exarchs activated, and it can summon them to its side if it needs them.  You probably should prepare for that eventuality - exarchs of CR about 6 lower than the dragon seems about right, and won't blow out the EL too badly.  You can get your magical support here, thought you'll lose the ability to exploit some of the nifty personal dragon spells like the breath weapon energy modification ones if you do it that way.  A ring of spell storing can help, but you'll need to work out who the dragon got to cast that Greater Dispelling Breath into its ring in the first place if your players/PCs are of an analytical mindset...I've statted up a CR21 Xorvintaal dragon and two of his four exarchs (more to come later) at <a href="http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/olderProducts/dungeon/savageTide/listOfCustomisedModifiedAdditionalNPCsMonstersEtc&page=1#16" target="_blank">paizo.com - Paizo / Messageboards / Paizo Publishing / Older Products / Dungeon Magazine / Savage Tide Adventure Path / List of customised/modified/additional NPCs, monsters etc</a></blockquote>

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