Draconomicon 1 - Chromatic Dragons (4e), D&D 4e
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C
ruel
and
C
unning
The evil and greedy chromatic dragons lurk in dim dun-
geons and remote lairs guarding fabulous hoards of stolen
treasure. From the savage white dragon to the mighty
red dragon, the breath of a chromatic dragon brings
nothing but death and destruction to those ad-
venturers who seek to claim their gold. But
still, heroes dream and scheme of the day
when they battle a chromatic dragon.
D
raconomicon
™
This DUNGEONS & DRAGONS
®
supplement cov-
ers the red, blue, green, black, and white dragons described
in the
Monster Manual
®
as well as three new chromatic
dragons appearing in this book.
Draconomicon
™
details each
dragon’s powers, tactics, lairs, and servitors. In addition,
this book provides new information about how chromatic
dragons fi t into the D&D
®
game. Wide-ranging story and
campaign elements give DMs ready-to-play material, in-
cluding adventure hooks, quests, and pregenerated treasure
hoards.
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contents
1: DRAGON LORE
DRAGON LORE
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Physiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Outlook and Psychology . . . . . . . . . . 18
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chromatic Dragons in Detail . . . . . . 30
Black Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Blue Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Brown Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Gray Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Green Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Purple Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Red Dragons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
White Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Cli side Lair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Vigilant Watchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
The Dragon’s Grotto . . . . . . . . . . 108
Feywild Lair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Sylvan Allies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Dragon’s Den . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Where Shadows Fall. . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
The Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
The Dead Travel Fast . . . . . . . . . . 124
Heart of Darkness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
The Beating Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Something on the Side . . . . . . . . 132
Volcano Lair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
The Weapon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
The Dragon’s Lair . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
The Tomb of Urum-Shar . . . . . . . . . 142
Stairway to Hell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Beneath the Sands . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Abyssal Lair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Isle of Faces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Demon Miners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Regnant Fane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Guarded Cavern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Inner Sanctum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Mirage Dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Wretch Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Shadowfell Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Blight Dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Shadow Dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
UNDEAD DRAGONS
. . . . . . . . . 200
Dracolich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Bone Mongrel Dracolich . . . . . . . 200
Stoneborn Dracolich . . . . . . . . . . 201
Icewrought Dracolich . . . . . . . . . 201
Dreambreath Dracolich . . . . . . . 202
Draconic Wraith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Wyrm-Wisp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Soulgrinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Draconic Zombie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Winged Putrescence . . . . . . . . . . 205
Rotclaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Deathless Hunger . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Rancid Tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Skeletal Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Razortalon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Bonespitter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Siegewyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Vampiric Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Thief of Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Bloodwind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
2: DM’S GUIDE TO DRAGONS
DM’S GUIDE TO DRAGONS
. . . 44
Draconic Encounters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Combat Encounters . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Social Encounters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
The King’s Vizier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
The Long and Winding Road . . . 48
Draconic Traps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Adventures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Adventure Hooks and Quests . . . 51
False Witness (Level 5) . . . . . . . 51
Out of the Dark (Level 7) . . . . . 52
Gathering Storm (Level 13) . . . 52
Shipwreck (Level 18) . . . . . . . . . 53
Crossfi re (Level 22). . . . . . . . . . . 53
But the Dead Dragons
Shall Rule (Level 26 or 29) . . . 54
Chromatic Patrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Draconic Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Fabulous Dragonslayers . . . . . . . . 57
The Dragon’s Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Dragon Hoards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Principles of Hoard Design . . . . . 61
Draconic Artifacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Ilthuviel’s Blackened Heart . . . . . 76
Blue Orb of Dragonkind . . . . . . . . 78
Spear of Urrok the Brave . . . . . . . 80
Unconquered Standard
of Arkhosia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Draconic Rituals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Dragon Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Famous Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
4: NEW MONSTERS
NEW MONSTERS
. . . . . . . . . . . . 166
CHROMATIC DRAGONS
CHROMATIC DRAGONS
. . . . . 168
Brown Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Gray Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Purple Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Chromatic Wyrmlings . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Black Dragon Wyrmling . . . . . . . 179
Blue Dragon Wyrmling . . . . . . . . 180
Brown Dragon Wyrmling . . . . . . 181
Gray Dragon Wyrmling. . . . . . . . 182
Green Dragon Wyrmling . . . . . . 183
Purple Dragon Wyrmling . . . . . . 184
Red Dragon Wyrmling. . . . . . . . . 185
White Dragon Wyrmling . . . . . . 186
OTHER CREATURES
. . . . . . . . 210
Abishai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Draconic Parasite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Dragonborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Dragonspawn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Kobold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Living Breath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Squamous Thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
DRAGON HALL OF FAME
. . . 232
Ashardalon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Cyan Bloodbane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Dragotha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Gulgol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Nefermandias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Rime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Tiamat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Zebukiel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
PLANAR DRAGONS
PLANAR DRAGONS
. . . . . . . . . . 188
Abyssal Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Frostforged Wyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Deathmask Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Astral Dragons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Battle Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Pact Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Elemental Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Blazewyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Dragon Eel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Tempest Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Pyroclastic Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Feywild Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Faerie Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
TEMPLATES
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Draconic Creature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Dragonguard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
3: DRAGON LAIRS
DRAGON LAIRS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Lair Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
The Ruins of Castle Korvald . . . . . . . 94
The Gatekeepers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Tower of Murderous Ice . . . . . . . 100
ALTERNATIVE POWERS
. . . . 251
1:
UNDEAD DRAGONS
2:
4:
OTHER CREATURES
DRAGON HALL OF FAME
TEMPLATES
3:
ALTERNATIVE POWERS
CHAPTER 1
Dragon Lore
1
More ink
has been spilled on describing drag-
ons than on nearly any other creature. These ancient,
noble, yet savage beasts are a favorite subject of guide-
books, bards’ tales, and ancient tomes and scrolls.
Draconic knowledge is gained at risk of life and limb;
dragons are rapacious, jealous of their secrets, and
often hungry.
Experts describe dragons as the first sentient race
to appear in the world, with life spans stretching into
millennia. With such a wealth of experience, dragons
embody history. The oldest dragons are repositories
of vast knowledge and of the deepest ancient secrets.
Dragons are more than just a challenge for knights
seeking hoards or glory: dragons are sages, oracles,
and even prophets.
Dragons’ majesty has clothed them in myth. The
appearance of a dragon can portend good or ill for-
tune. Pragmatic sages attempt to classify dragons
as merely large lizards that have wings and warm
breath, but these efforts fail in the true light of the
wonder, magic, and fantastic abilities of dragons.
Dragons are, by their nature, epic forces.
This chapter covers the following topics:
✦
Origins:
The beginnings and history of chromatic
dragons.
✦
Physiology:
A detailed study of chromatic drag-
ons’ anatomy.
✦
Life Cycle:
The life of a dragon from egg to
ancient.
✦
Outlook and Psychology:
How chromatic drag-
ons see the world.
Society:
A description of dragon social structure.
✦
Language:
Draconic language and script.
✦
Religion:
Dragons’ favored deities.
✦
Chromatic Dragons in Detail:
An overview
of the five most common chromatic dragons—
black, blue, green, red, and white—as well as the
lesser-known brown, gray, and purple dragons.
4
CHAPTER 1 |
Dragon Lore
Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
—William Shakespeare
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