D
yellow dragon
Level 15
Armor Class: -1
Speed: 9
Magic Resistance: 20
Alignment: Lawful
Attacks:
- Breath: 4d6 acid damage
- Bite: 3d8 ordinary physical damage
- Claw: 1d4 ordinary physical damage
- Claw: 1d4 ordinary physical damage
Conveyances:
- acid resistance
- petrification resistance
Resistances:
- resists acid
- resists petrification
Other attributes:
- can fly or float
- has thick hide or scales
- no hands to handle things
- can see invisible creatures
- can lay eggs
- eats corpses
- acidic to eat
- always starts hostile
- strong (or big) monster
- extra-nasty monster (more xp)
- likes gold
- likes gems
- picks up magic items
In the West the dragon was the natural enemy of man. Although
preferring to live in bleak and desolate regions, whenever it
was seen among men it left in its wake a trail of destruction
and disease. Yet any attempt to slay this beast was a perilous
undertaking. For the dragon's assailant had to contend
not only with clouds of sulphurous fumes pouring from its fire
breathing nostrils, but also with the thrashings of its tail,
the most deadly part of its serpent-like body.
[ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]
"One whom the dragons will speak with," he said, "that is a
dragonlord, or at least that is the center of the matter. It's
not a trick of mastering the dragons, as most people think.
Dragons have no masters. The question is always the same, with
a dragon: will he talk to you or will he eat you? If you can
count upon his doing the former, and not doing the latter, why
then you're a dragonlord."
[ The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin ]
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