Dragon Classes

[JonSetanta]

Feats

Dragon Heir
Gain Dragon type.
Level Ability
1 Energy Resistance 5 to two elements, Endure Elements, +4 saves vs Paralysis and Sleep, Darkvision 30, Low Light Vision
6 Energy Resistance 15 to two elements, +8 saves vs Paralysis and Sleep, Darkvision 60
11 Energy Resistance 30 to two elements, Darkvision 90, Immune to Paralysis and Sleep
16 Immunity to two elements, Darkvision 120, Immune to one other status effect of choice

Dragon of the Hills
Requires Dragon type
• Lose Flight speed if any. If a Flight speed was lost, the character gains a burrow speed equal to half Land speed.
• Double weight
• +10 Land speed
• Breath weapon may be Earth element, a blast of dust and ash

Dragon of the Skies
Requires Dragon type
• Halve weight
• +5 x level additional Flight speed
• Increase Flight maneuverability by one stage
• Breath weapon may be Air element, a torrent of hot wind

Dragon of the Waters
Requires Dragon type
• Triple weight
• Gain Amphibious trait (can breathe air and water)
• Lose Flight speed if any. If a Flight speed was lost, the character gains a Swim speed equal to the Flight speed lost.
• Breath weapon may be Water element, a gout of steam


Classes
• SLA = Spell-Like Ability, at-will unless specified otherwise
• X/day = Number of times a Spell-Like Ability may be used in a day
• A Glide Speed functions like a Fly Speed, but every round spend flying drags the character downward 5 feet. Only down and horizontal motion possible, unless there is an updraft.


TRUE DRAGON
Must have Dragon type or Dragonblood subtype.
Hit Die: d12
Base Attack Bonus: Full
Good Saving Throws: Fortitude, Reflex, and Will
Skill Points: 6+Int
Class Skills: Any

Weapon Proficiency:Simple weapons
Armor Proficiency: No armor or shields

Spellcasting
• Cast spells as a Sorcerer of a caster level equal to half of True Dragon levels (round down), but only from the Sorcerer list and any Cleric domains that match alignment. Spells cast become arcane if not already. Charisma is the primary spellcasting score for True Dragon spells.
Age Categories
• Only apply age category related size changes (such as Size Tiny for Wyrmling) if the character has dragon as its only main type.
• Every time an age category is gained, do not adjust ability scores as by monster growth rules, but do add one Dragon Power from the list along with all size-related adjustments to combat modifiers, natural attacks, and reach.


1 Wyrmling (Size Tiny, 5 lbs), Bite (primary, 1d4 + STR, Reach), Natural Armor (+2, and +1 per level), Breath Weapon (any 1 element or mode), +10 racial Land speed, Pure Muscle, Draconic Cunning, maximum DEX is 10 (and can not improve by base amount or racial bonuses, but enhancement and inherent bonuses can apply)
2 Tiny Wings (Ex, constant Feather Fall, Glide speed 30, Poor),
3 Damage Reduction (1/2 level, weak to magic), Claws (secondary, 2 x 1d4-1 + STR)
4 Blindsense 30 feet
5 Breath Weapon +1 element or mode
6 Full Wings (10 x level feet Flight speed, Poor)
7 Hover feat
8 Very Young (Size Small, 40 lbs, Claws become 1d4 + STR damage)
9 Blindsense 60 feet
10 Breath Weapon +1 element or mode
11 Young (Size Medium, 320 lbs), Tail Slap (secondary, 1d6 + 1/2 STR for Medium)
12 True Seeing (constant)
13 Commune With Nature SLA, Legend Lore SLA
14 Juvenile
15 Breath Weapon +1 element or mode
16 Flyby Attack feat
17 Young Adult (Size Large, 2560 lbs), Frightful Presence
18 Word of Recall SLA
19 Wish 1/day
20 Adult, Breath Weapon +1 element or mode, Spell Resistance (11 + level)
21 (Epic)
23 Mature Adult (Size Huge, 20480 lbs),
26 Old
29 Very Old (Size Gargantuan, 163840 lbs)
32 Ancient
35 Wyrm (Size Colossal, 1310720 lbs)
38 Great Wyrm


Pure Muscle (Ex): The character adds every True Dragon level as a racial bonus to Strength, and every even True Dragon level as a racial bonus to Constitution.
Ability score adjustments from this ability do not stack with racial and enhancement bonuses.

Draconic Cunning (Ex): A True Dragon adds every even True Dragon level as a racial bonus to Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.
Ability score adjustments from this ability do not stack with racial and enhancement bonuses.

Breath Weapon (Su): CON 13+. As a standard action the character breaths a single element in either a 40 foot line or 20 foot cone, dealing 1d6 damage per odd level. Opponents get a Reflex save (10 +1/2 level +CON) for half. Every size increase beyond Small increases the length of area by half. In any round the character uses this ability, they may not use it in the next 1d4 rounds.
Some energy types will have extra effect in addition to damage, but at a cost of using 1d4 damage per odd level instead of d6s;
Elements
• Air (Fortitude save, opponents are Checked for 1 round)
• Earth or Water (Fortitude save, opponents are Pinned for 1 round, or evaporate 1 cubic foot of water per point of damage)
• Fire or Acid (Reflex save, opponents catch on fire)
• Force (affects ethereal opponents, may also be nonlethal)
• Light (Reflex save, Blinded for 1d4 rounds)
• Sonic (Fortitude save, Deafened for 1d4 rounds, or Will save, Panicked for 1 round)
Alternatively instead of an energy type the character may choose to cause one of the following status effects when this ability is gained. All gas breaths are Poison type unless specified otherwise;
Modes
• Dazing Gas (Will save, Dazed for 1d6 rounds)
• Fear Gas (Will save, Shaken for 4d6 rounds)
• Maddening Gas (Fortitude save, 1d4 WIS damage)
• Repulsion Gas (Will save, move away for 1d6 rounds, Enchantment [Mind-Affecting, Compulsion])
• Sleep Gas (Will save, Dazed for 1d4 rounds, if affected while Dazed they become Unconscious for 1 round per level, new save at the beginning of every turn)
• Slow Gas (Fortitude save, Slowed for 1d6 rounds)
• Stun Gas (Fortitude save, Stunned for 1d4 rounds, new save at the beginning of every turn)
• Stupefying Gas (Fortitude save, 1d4 INT damage)
• Weakening Gas (Fortitude save, 1d4 STR damage)

Frightful Presence (Ex): Level 15+, CHA 13+. Opponents with less levels must make a Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 level + CHA) vs. Fear every time the character attacks, charges, or moves past, or become either become Panicked (if the opponent has 4 or less levels) or Shaken (if 5 or more levels) for 4d6 rounds. Success on the Will save means they can not be affected again for 24 hours. The radius of this ability is 30 feet for every 5 levels the character has. If the character has the Dragon type, other Dragons are immune to this ability.

Coating (Ex): Level 6+, CON 13+. The character's body secrets a specific type of element. Anything touching the character for a round automatically takes 3 per odd level damage (including grappling) at the end of the round, but lightly striking with a weapon allows a Reflex save (DC 10 +1/2 level +CON) to avoid the damage to both weapon and user.


Dragon Powers
• Choose one each time a new age category is gained.
• Later categories may be used to acquire earlier powers.
• The caster level for Dragon Power effects is equal to character level. For save DCs use 10 + 1/2 level +CHA.

Wyrmling
Ability Drain (Su, see Fang Dragon, Draconomicon, Fortitude save, 1d2 CON ability score damage with bite, increase die size with each age category)
Cloudwalking (Su, see Silver Dragon, MM)
Constrict
Destroy Water SLA (see Blue Dragon, MM)
Detect Magic SLA
Ghost Sound SLA
Icewalking (Ex, see White Dragon, MM)
Increased Damage (Ex, see Fang Dragon, Draconomicon, increase all natural attack damage dice by one step)
Speak With Animals (Su)
Spider Climb (Ex)
Water Breathing (Ex)

Very Young
Alternate Form: Animal (animal shapes, Transmutation (Polymorph), constant)
Color Spray SLA
Elemental Mastery
See Invisible and Ethereal (Su)
Shadow Blend (Su, total concealment under less than daylight)
Trip (Claw or Tail Slap)

Young
Alternate Form: Humanoid (humanoid shapes, Transmutation (Polymorph), constant)
Gaseous Form SLA
Improved Grab (Bite)
Invisibility SLA
Poison (Ex, Bite, Fortitude save, 1d4 STR/2d4 STR)
Roar (see Dragonne, affects all opponents)
Wingover feat
Wounding (Ex, claw attack, 1 CON damage per hit, counts as Precision damage)

Juvenile
Bless SLA
Capsize (Ex, see Dragon Turtle, MM)
Darkness SLA
Detect Thoughts SLA
Dispel Magic SLA
Endure Elements SLA
Fog Cloud SLA
Locate Object SLA
Pounce (Ex, see Lion or Dragonne, full attack with charge)
Sound Imitation (Ex, see Blue Dragon, MM)
Stinking Cloud SLA
Stomp (see Amethyst Dragon, MM2, or the Psionic power by same name)

Young Adult
Augmented Critical (Ex, Bite only, see Tarrasque. MM)
Coating
Crush (Ex)
Improved Grab
Rush (Ex, see Tarrasque, MM)
Snatch feat
Swallow Whole
Tremor (Su, 60 radius, standing opponents make Reflex save or fall prone)

Adult
Corrupt Water SLA (see Black Dragon, MM)
Create Food and Water SLA
Dimension Door SLA
Explosive Gem (see Amethyst Dragon, MM2)
Gust of Wind SLA
Luck Bonus (see Gold Dragon, MM)
Spell Turning SLA
Stinking Cloud SLA
Stone Shape SLA
Stone Shape SLA
Suggestion SLA
Ventriloquism SLA

Mature Adult
Bonus Feat

Old
Body Equilibrium (see Amethyst Dragon, MM2, or Psionic power)
Control Winds SLA
Detect Gems (Su, see Gold Dragon, MM)
Freezing Fog (Su, see White Dragon, MM)
Geas/Quest SLA
Hallucinatory Terrain SLA
Hold Monster SLA
Mind Fog SLA
Nondetection SLA
Plant Growth SLA
Telekinesis SLA
Teleport SLA
Transmute Rock To Mud/Mud To Rock SLAs

Very Old
Etherealness SLA
Greater Shout SLA
Hypnotism Gaze (Su, 60 feet, as the spell Hypnotism, one target, no HD limit)

Ancient
Control Water SLA
Control Weather SLA
Dominate Person SLA
Fast Healing 2
Find The Path SLA
Ghost Touch (Ex)
Insect Plague SLA
Shadow Walk SLA
Sunburst SLA
Veil SLA
Wall of Ice SLA
Wall of Stone SLA
Wall of Stone SLA

Wyrm
Bonus Feat

Great Wyrm
Charm Reptiles SLA (Su, see Black Dragon, MM)
Command Plants SLA
Discern Location SLA
Foresight SLA
Globe of Invulnerability SLA
Horrid Wilting SLA
Mirage Arcana SLA
Move Earth SLA
Move Earth SLA
Reverse Gravity SLA
Shapechange SLA

[JonSetanta]

Added new breath attacks

[JonSetanta]

Fixed the "maximum DEX" clause as by request over on BrilliantGameologists.

[Prak]

Dragon Blood
Gain Dragonblood subtype.
This subtype allows the character to qualify for dragon feats, classes, and items, and count as a dragon for spell effects, without actually being a true dragon.
Level Ability
1 Energy Resistance 5 to two elements, Endure Elements, +4 saves vs Paralysis and Sleep, Darkvision 30, Low Light Vision
6 Energy Resistance 15 to two elements, +8 saves vs Paralysis and Sleep, Darkvision 60
11 Energy Resistance 30 to two elements, Darkvision 90, Immune to Paralysis and Sleep
16 Immunity to two elements, Darkvision 120, Immune to one other status effect of choice



Dragon of the Hills
Requires Dragon type
• Lose flight speed if any. If a flight speed was lost, the character gains a burrow speed equal to half land speed.
• Double weight
• +10 land speed
• Breath weapon may be Earth element, a blast of dust and ash

Dragon of the Skies
Requires Dragon type
• Halve weight
• +5 x level additional flight speed
• Increase flight maneuverability by one stage
• Breath weapon may be Air element, a torrent of hot wind

Dragon of the Waters
Requires Dragon type
• Triple weight
• Gain Amphibious trait (can breathe air and water)
• Lose flight speed if any. If a flight speed was lost, the character gains a swim speed equal to the flight speed lost.
• Breath weapon may be Water element, a gout of steam

What are these? feats? traits? what?

I assume Dragon Blood is like a "Product of Draconic Interference" feat?

[JonSetanta]

They are all feats. I should probably.. write that in.

Dragon Blood was redone, sorry I haven't updated this version in a while. I do that now...

[ubernoob]

Casting as a sorcerer one level above your level with access to cleric spells as well on a full BAB d12 full saves chassis that also happens to get +1 to every single stat except dex every other level is bullshit.

You cannot have all of these at the same time:
Full spellcasting
Massive statboosts
Perfect chassis

You shouldn't have TWO of those at the same time. The reason Fiendish Brute gets a str boost is because it is half BAB and only has natural attacks. There is no fucking reason to give a full caster perfect saves, d12 HD, con boosts, and DC boosts as well as a list expanded beyond the core class.

At bare minimum, get rid of the sorcerer casting entirely. Even at cohort level casting this class still has stupid RNG breaking DCs.

Edit: Seven fucking bonus feats possible on a full bab 6+int skill point class with full casting (meaning it gets full progression of literally every scaling feat ever)? Fuck you. Trash the whole class.

[Dominicius]

Casting as a sorcerer one level above your level with access to cleric spells as well on a full BAB d12 full saves chassis that also happens to get +1 to every single stat except dex every other level is bullshit.

You cannot have all of these at the same time:
Full spellcasting
Massive statboosts
Perfect chassis

You shouldn't have TWO of those at the same time. The reason Fiendish Brute gets a str boost is because it is half BAB and only has natural attacks. There is no fucking reason to give a full caster perfect saves, d12 HD, con boosts, and DC boosts as well as a list expanded beyond the core class.

At bare minimum, get rid of the sorcerer casting entirely. Even at cohort level casting this class still has stupid RNG breaking DCs.

Edit: Seven fucking bonus feats possible on a full bab 6+int skill point class with full casting (meaning it gets full progression of literally every scaling feat ever)? Fuck you. Trash the whole class.

But Uber! We are talking about dragons! Dragons need to be able to win at everything foevar!

[JonSetanta]

Very funny, Dominicus.

Due to a discussion about the spellcasting elsewhere, I actually changed the spellcasting in my DOC copy and over on BG, but neglected to update it here.
I'll repost the entire thing here to make sure there's no old info hanging around.

EDIT: OK it's now the same copy as http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards ... ic=10123.0

Half-caster.

[ubernoob]

Half casting is stupid and should be done away with because it creates divergent DCs. Instead, just pick a number of levels behind (I'm fond of four) and do that. And drop the attribute boosts, like all of them. Instead, just give a BoG style enhancement bonus to explain the lack of dragons wearing cloaks of charisma.

[JonSetanta]

The stat boosts are necessary. Have you ever seen the dragons in the MM?

I went by HD, not CR. That's pretty generous as it was.

... or are you saying make it all Enhancement type? That might work. I could just say it doesn't stack with anything.

[ubernoob]

The stat boosts are necessary. Have you ever seen the dragons in the MM?

I went by HD, not CR. That's pretty generous as it was.

... or are you saying make it all Enhancement type? That might work. I could just say it doesn't stack with anything.

Make it enhancement type. Dragons are never wearing cloaks of charisma in the MM

[JonSetanta]

I'll make it so that it doesn't stack with racial OR enhancement bonuses.

Essentially it does two things this way:
1. Reward a player for continuing the class, regardless of item acquisition (doesn't matter what stat boosters they find... it'll just sit in the hoard)
2. The character becomes a dragon, their original racial bonuses overshadowed by the awesome might.

My reasoning for making this class the way it is was the Tome spell Dragon Form, SL6, that makes a player into a dragon.
http://dungeons.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_F ... e_Spell%29
I figured that if a full caster could reach that end, why not start from the other perspective and have a player be a dragon from the start?

[the_unthinkable]

I noticed you left out the Wyrm age catagory. Was this intentional or an oversite?

[JonSetanta]

Wyrm is there in the progression and SLA listing, but I couldn't find any existing SLAs for dragons in that age category, oddly. I just gave them a bonus feat for it.

[the_unthinkable]

Well, that may be where I might have made that mistake. Other than that, I love Dragons.

[JonSetanta]

Well, that may be where I might have made that mistake. Other than that, I love Dragons.

Nice to know. I love killing them.

Mostly made this class for players I know that do love dragons, as you and many others do, since there was one lacking (and half-dragon template sucks. You could easily use 4-6 levels of this and get the same or better... )
But it's also good for making new types of dragons. I followed the MM dragon setups level-by-level as close as possible but there were some changes that needed to be done, such as splitting up Wyrmling into multiple levels, and unifying the Breath Weapon mechanic.