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DRACONOMICON™

Andy Collins, Skip Williams, James Wyatt

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This d20™ System game utilizes mechanics developed for the new Dungeons & Dragons ® game by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook,

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Valuable advice provided by Todd Lockwood and Sam Wood (Dragon Anatomy and Motion), Monica Shellman and Michael S.

Webster (Dragon Names)

Resources for this product (and the authors of those works) include Atlas of Animal Anatomy (W. Ellenburg and H. Deittrich), Book of

Eldritch Might (Monte Cook/Malhavoc Press), Book of Vile Darkness (Monte Cook), Bulfinch’s Mythology (Thomas Bulfinch),

Transformations of Myth Through Time (Joseph Campbell), “Class Acts: Dragonkith,” Dragon Magazine #284 (Monte Cook), Council of

Wyrms (Bill Slavicsek), Defenders of the Faith (Rich Redman and James Wyatt), AD&D ® 2nd Edition Draconomicon (Nigel Findley,

Christopher Kubasik, Carl Sargent, John Terra, and William Tracy), “Dragontongue: A Draconic Language Primer,” Dragon

Magazine #284 (Owen K. C. Stephens), Forgotten Realms ® Campaign Setting (Ed Greenwood, Sean K Reynolds, Skip Williams, and

Rob Heinsoo), The Golden Bough (James George Frazer), AD&D 1st Edition Monster Manual (Gary Gygax), Monsters of Faerun (James

Wyatt and Rob Heinsoo), AD&D 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual , Oriental Adventures (James Wyatt), Savage Species (Jennifer Clarke

Wilkes, David Eckelberry, and Rich Redman), Tome and Blood (Bruce Cordell and Skip Williams).

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Contents

Advanced Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Sample Advanced Dragon . . . . . . . . 100

Magma Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Ooze Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Smoke Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Water Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Faerie Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Fang Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Felldrake, Spiked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Ghostly Dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Golem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Dragonbone Golem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Drakestone Golem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Ironwyrm Golem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Half-Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Hoard Scarab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Landwyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Desert Landwyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Forest Landwyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Hill Landwyrm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Jungle Landwyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Mountain Landwyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Plains Landwyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Swamp Landwyrm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Tundra Landwyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Underdark Landwyrm . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Planar Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Battle Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Chaos Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Ethereal Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Howling Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Oceanus Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Pyroclastic Dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Radiant Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Rust Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Styx Dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Tarterian Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Shadow Dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Skeletal Dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Squamous Spewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Storm Drake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Vampiric Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Zombie Dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Chapter 3: The Player’s

Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Fighting a Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Forewarned Is Forearmed . . . . . . . . 101

Limit the Battlefield . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

The Element of Surprise . . . . . . . . . 102

Spread Out, Concentrate Attacks . . 102

Don’t Stay Too Long. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

New Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Cleric Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Spell Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Dragonhide Armor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Dragoncraft Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Magic Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Weapons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Rings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Rods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Staffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Wondrous Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Minor Artifact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Prestige Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Dracolyte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Dragonkith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Dragonrider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Dragonslayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Dragonsong Lyrist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Dragonstalker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Hoardstealer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Initiate of the Draconic

Mysteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Platinum Knight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Talon of Tiamat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Dragons in the Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Dragons’ Advantages

and Disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Dragons as Mounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Dragons as Cohorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Dragons as Special Mounts . . . . . . . 139

Dragons as Familiars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Dragons as Player Characters. . . . . . . . 141

Chapter 1: All About Dragons . . . . . . . . . 5

The Dragon’s Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Dragon Physiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Dragon Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Dragon Senses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Other Modes of Movement . . . . . . . . . . 19

Combat Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Dragon Weaknesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Outlook and Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Dragon Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Religion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Dragons by Kind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Dragon Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Black Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Blue Dragons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Brass Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Bronze Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Copper Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Gold Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Green Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Red Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Silver Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

White Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Chapter 2: A DM’s Guide

to Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Dragons in the Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Running a Dragon Encounter . . . . . . . . 59

The Mechanics of Melee . . . . . . . . . . 59

Fighting on the Wing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using a Breath Weapon . . . . . . . . . . . 62

To Breathe or Not to Breathe? . . . . . . 63

Using Special Attack Forms . . . . . . . 64

Dragons as Spellcasters. . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Dragon Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Feat Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Dragon Spells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Spell Descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Dragon Magic Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Lair Wards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Dragon Prestige Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Bloodscaled Fury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Disciple of Ashardalon . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Dispassionate Watcher

of Chronepsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Dragon Ascendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Elemental Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Hidecarved Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Sacred Warder of Bahamut . . . . . . . . 96

Unholy Ravager of Tiamat . . . . . . . . . 97

Chapter 5: Sample Dragons . . . . . . . . . 199

Customizing the Dragons. . . . . . . . . . . 199

Sample Black Dragons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Sample Blue Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Sample Brass Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Sample Bronze Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Sample Copper Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Sample Gold Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Sample Green Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Sample Red Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Sample Silver Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Sample White Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Chapter 4: New Monsters. . . . . . . . . . . 145

Abyssal Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Monsters by Type (and Subtype) . . . . 146

Dracolich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Draconic Creature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Dragonkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Dragonnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Elemental Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Air Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Earth Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Fire Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Ice Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Appendix 1: The Dragon’s Hoard . . . . 277

Appendix 2: Index of Dragons . . . . . . 286

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