dragon magazine số 156

[...]... scroll, and that will be the spell the paper dragon is able to cast at the adventurers If the scroll was a protection scroll, the dragon can create that protective effect; if the scroll was cursed, the dragon has no effective spell attack The paper dragon casts its spell or effect by appearing to burp in the direction of its victims If hard pressed, a paper dragon may hurriedly gulp down part or all... unfolder passes a dexterity check on 1d20 (to keep from tearing the paper) and if the paper dragon was not damaged in any way by its cause of death, the dragon unfolds into a 1’square sheet of paper upon which the contents of the last scroll it has eaten are written down A paper dragon appears to be a very small dragon made of some expensive parchment, upon which decorations appear like handwriting or... Average (10) XP VALUE: 650 to 2,000 Pink dragons can be found almost anywhere, most frequently in some form of underground lair Many hapless adventurers have been fatally fooled by the dragon s dopey appearance and delicate pink coloration Pink dragons love to talk, but they are prone to eat those who do not laugh at their jokes The breath weapon of the pink dragon is highly unusual A special stomach... most advantageous The consumption of part or all of a scroll takes one round Paper dragons are good natured but destructive How they manage to reproduce is a complete mystery If slain, a paper dragon may be unfolded like an Legend holds that this almost twodimensional creature was created to resemble, or possibly is, a true dragon The wizard responsible for its creation was a bit eccentric (obviously)... to make a guardian for his library of spells After creating the paper dragon and finding out how well the creature worked, he channeled more magical energy into making it a living thing, able to exist anywhere and to breed, therefore causing a new race of dragons to come forth But in the process of accomplishing this, something DRAGON 15 Monstrous Compendium? origami figure; if the unfolder passes... (minimum of 1hp damage) The paper dragon s second mode of attack is the hurling of its most recently eaten spell When encountered, a paper dragon has 1-4 magical scrolls in its lair that it is saving for food Generate each scroll using Table 90 in the AD&D 2nd Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide (pages 135-136), then generate one extra scroll to represent the last meal that the paper dragon has eaten Randomly generate... MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard SIZE: T (6” long) MORALE: Steady (12) XP VALUE: 650 went wrong, and the paper dragon s purpose was altered Instead of protecting scrolls, it now considered them a food source By the time the wizard found this out, the dragon had gone—and left him with an empty library The paper dragon can now be found in scrolls, spell books, or almost any sort of magical writings It derives nourishment... When the bubble cloud is in place, the dragon merely closes his transparent protective third eyelids and, using a batlike sonar, attacks with his highly accurate claw/claw/bite routine Those few pink dragons able to use magic (20%) gain one first-level mage spell (as per illusionists), determined randomly, for each stage of growth If a spell is rolled twice, the dragon is able to use that spell twice...10 APRIL 1990 Monstrous Compendium? We’ve seen a lot of weird monsters here at DRAGON Magazine We’ve even published some of them, like the giant vampire frog in issue #50, but some monsters we’ve received were so weird that we’d read one of them and think, “Jeez, nobody will ever want... inks used in such writings Due to its two-dimensional appearance and coloration, it has a 50% chance of being mistaken in low torchlight for merely a drawing of a dragon Closer inspection or better lighting reveals its true nature The paper dragon attacks by two methods The first method is a physical attack with two claws, a bite, and a tail sting The tail stinger injects poison that causes sleep for . the United States and Canada, write to: Letters, DRAGON Magazine, P.O. Box 111, Lake Geneva WI 53147, U.S.A. In Europe, write to: Letters, DRAGON Magazine, TSR Ltd., 120 Church End, Cherry Hinton,. orders is: DRAGON Magazine, P.O. Box 111 (201 Sheridan Springs Road), Lake Geneva WI 53147, USA.; telephone. (414) 248-3625. The postal address for all materials from Europe is DRAGON Magazine, . material published in DRAGON Magazine becomes the exclusive property of the pub- lisher unless special arrangements to the contrary are made prior to publication DRAGON Magazine welcomes unsolicited