dragon magazine số 065

[...]... no yellow dragon has been captured locally for study, the characteristics of yellow dragons have been deduced by sages asking, “If a green dragon is the product of a blue and a yellow dragon, then what kind of dragon, mated with a blue one, could produce a green dragon? ” A green dragon has the same armor class as a blue, so the yellow’s AC would be the same or only slightly better A yellow dragon would... tables for dragons can be used Descriptions of these three dragons now complete the evil dragon overspecies A sage can easily trace the biology of the most distinctive dragon characteristic, the breath weapon The fire of the red dragon breaks apart the sodium chloride (salt) of the yellow dragon, giving sodium as a breath weapon for the orange dragon The electricity-generating effect of the blue dragon. .. sodium or arsenic at +4 and vs fire (regular and magical) at +2 DRAGON 29 The third very rarely seen dragon type is the purple Two well documented dragons, the red and the blue, may mate to produce a purple dragon This is the strongest of the three missing dragon types, since its parents are the largest and most intelligent evil dragons Purple Dragon FREQUENCY: Very rare NO APPEARING: 1-4 ARMOR CLASS: 1... each other, thus starting the secondary-pigment branches of the dragon overspecies DRAGON 27 According to the color-wheel theory, the green dragon s parents many generations ago were blue and yellow dragons The blue dragon is well documented; despite being rare, it is abundant enough to have been seen by villagers and adventurers alike Yellow dragons, however, are very rare (or perhaps nonexistent) on... Manual, Tiamat “spawns all of evil dragonkind.” Yet, dragons can be found in mated pairs of the same color, with young and eggs Therefore, it seems that dragons can come from two sources: from Tiamat, or from others of their kind Why not a third source? In the ancient past, the secondary-color dragons could have been the product of matings between two different primary-color dragons Most of these matings... and vs chlorine or other poisonous gases Mating a yellow dragon with a red produces an orange dragon Orange dragons are also very rare (or perhaps nonexistent) on the continent where most AD&D adventures occur The armor class, size, and many other qualities of an orange dragon would be a hybrid of the attributes of the red and the yellow: Orange Dragon FREQUENCY: Very rare NO APPEARING: 1-4 ARMOR CLASS:... sodium which is expelled in a stream ½” wide and 6” long in a straight-line direction from the dragon s head, in the manner of black dragons The dull silvercolored stream of sodium oxidizes rapidly when exposed to air; the oily saliva of the dragon serves to prevent premature ignition in the mouth of the dragon The sodium itself is stored in the digestive tract in a nearly solid state, and is not liquefied... will dissolve the salt in 2 or 3 (one-third the hit dice of the dragon, rounded up) melee rounds Yellow dragons able to use magic gain a 1st-level spell at each of the first four age brackets, and gain a 2nd-level spell at each of the remaining four age brackets, in the same manner as green dragons, with the spells selected randomly Yellow dragons save at +2 vs metallic poisons such as sodium or arsenic... that of a blue dragon, but narrower The bolt is a high-energy lance, a merging of the lightning and fire from the dragon s blue and red parents Victims take damage equal to the dragon s hit points from being fully struck; victims who make a save vs breath weapon are only struck a glancing blow and take half damage Both the victim and anyone else standing in a 120° arc in front of the dragon s head are... Excluding black and white dragons (the former a mixture of every pigment, the latter the absence of any pigment), only three types of dragons whose scales have pigments of the color wheel are mentioned in the Monster Manual: red, blue, and green They, and the three missing colors (purple, orange, and yellow) together form the main part of the chromatic dragon overspecies The origin of dragons is a subject . Raupp DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is pub- lished monthly for a subscription price of $24 per year by Dragon Publishing, a division of TSR Hobbies, inc., P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva WI 53147. DRAGON. published in DRAGON Magazine becomes the exclusive property of the publisher upon publication, unless special arrangements to the contrary are made prior to publication. DRAGON Magazine welcomes. Soapbox — Playing styles 68 Dragon s Augury: Wizardry; Akalabeth; Crush, Crumble & Chomp 73 The Chamax Plague / Horde 75 Empire Builder 75 What’s New 76 Wormy 78 Dragon Mirth 80 SPECIAL