Adventure Dragon (3.5e Race)

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Date Created:	4/30/10
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Adventure Dragon

Summary::A playable dragon race without all that pesky LA and stuff that makes it unusable. Adventure Dragons, unlike other dragons, grow more quickly when exposed to experience.

Personality

Apart from a desire for riches and a literal thirst for adventure, Adventure Dragons are a varied bunch.

Physical Description

Adventure Dragons look like dragons, with large, vaguely crescent-shaped stripes along their backs. Their base scale color and the color of the stripes are both indicative of their properties. Good dragons are shiny, Evil dragons aren't, and Neutral dragons are only shiny on either their stripes or other scales, but not both.

Relations

Adventure Dragons tend to wander off alone, gathering allies from other races in their quest for adventure.

Alignment

Adventure Dragons come in any alignment, as can be evidenced by the chromatic or metallic nature of their scales.

Lands

Wherever one can find meat, treasure, and enemies, the Adventure Dragons dare to go.

Religion

Adventure Dragons usually worship Draconic deities.

Language

Adventure Dragons speak Common and Draconic.

Names

Adventure Dragons have suitably draconic names, frequently possessing an x or "aug".

Racial Traits

• Racial Ability Adjustments::NoneNo ability adjustments: Apart from the massive boosts to Strength and minor boosts to Constitution, Wisdom, Charisma, and Intelligence that Adventure Dragons get as they grow, they have no ability score adjustments.
• Type::Dragon: Adventure Dragons are Dragons.
• Size::Small: Adventure Dragons start out small, with a +1 size bonus to attack and AC, a +4 bonus to Hide checks, and a -4 penalty to Grappling stuff.
• Adventure Dragon base land speed is 20 feet: They can't fly yet.
• Hungry (Ex): Adventure Dragons need to eat three times as much as a normal creature of their size. Effects that reduce how much they have to eat can't reduce their need for food below that of a normal creature of their size.
• Natural Growth (Ex): Adventure Dragons gain 1 point of experience per day if properly fed. Any time they level up, if more than half of their experience points for this level were from Natural Growth, they must level up in Adventure Dragon.
• Draconic: An Adventure Dragon can never have fewer than half of his levels rounded up in Adventure Dragon.
• Color: A pair of colors, chosen at character creation, determines additional abilities of the Adventure Dragon.

Table: Adventure Dragon base color

Color	Breath Weapon (Su) (recharges every 1d4+1 rounds)
Orange/Dark Gold	Fire 1d8 damage/HD in a cone 15'+5'/2 HD long
Light Grey/Platinum	Electricity 1d8 damage/HD in a line 30'+5'/HD long
Brown/Tarnished Copper	Acid 1d6 damage/HD in a line 30'+5'/HD long
Faded Yellow/Niobium	Electricity 1d8 damage/HD in a line 30'+5'/HD long
Dark Gray/Barium	Untyped 1d6 damage/HD in a cone 15'+5'/2 HD long
Light Blue/Osmium	Bludgeoning 1d6 damage/HD in a line 30'+5'/HD long
Rusty Red/Iron	1d8 damage/HD against objects, ignoring hardness in a cone 15'+5'/2 HD long
Teal/Fool's Gold	1d4 Wisdom damage +1/5 HD, Fortitude save negates instead of Reflex save for half in a cone 15'+5'/2 HD long
Pink/Rose Gold	1d10 nonlethal damage/HD in a line 30'+10'/2 HD long
Breath weapons take 1d4 rounds to recharge, and have a Reflex save DC of 10 + half Hit Dice + Constitution modifier for half damage and no other effect.

Table: Adventure Dragon stripe color

Color	Special Ability
Orange/Dark Gold	SRD:Alternate Form into a Medium or Small Humanoid with equal or less Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution a number of times per day equal to Charisma modifier.
Light Grey/Platinum	Eat platinum pieces to regain health. Takes 1 minute, and heals 5 HP per platinum piece.
Brown/Tarnished Copper	Retain DEX bonus to AC while climbing, +20 to Climb checks.
Faded Yellow/Niobium	Immune to Electricity. +2 to Tumble, Escape Artist, and Balance checks.
Dark Gray/Barium	Don't need to breathe, immune to gas-borne effects. +2 to Hide and Move Silently checks.
Light Blue/Osmium	Gain Damage Reduction 1/- per five Hit Dice, minimum 1.
Rusty Red/Iron	Gain Spell Resistance equal to 5 + Hit Dice.
Teal/Fool's Gold	+8 to Bluff and Disguise checks, appear to change colors and alignments at-will as a standard action.
Pink/Rose Gold	Immune to Fire, and to negative effects of high temperatures. +2 to Diplomacy checks.

• Automatic Languages: Common and Draconic.
• Bonus Languages: Elven, Goblin, Giant, Dwarven, Ignan, Terran, Aquan, Auran.
• Favored Class: Adventure Dragon class and Sorcerer
• Level Adjustment: +Level Adjustment::0
• Effective Character Level: Effective Character Level::1

Vital Statistics

Table: Adventure Dragon Random Starting Ages

Adulthood	Simple	Moderate	Complex
1d8 × 1d8 years	+1d4	+1d6	+1d8

Table: Adventure Dragon Aging Effects

Maximum Age
200+3d100 years

Table: Adventure Dragon Random Height and Weight

Gender	Base Height	Height Modifier	Base Weight	Weight Modifier
Male	2' 3"	+2d10	110 lb.	× (1d4) lb.
Female	2' 3"	+2d10	110 lb.	× (1d4) lb.

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