Combat: Shadow dragons prefer to attack from hiding,usually employing invisibity or hiding in shadows.They use illusion/phantasm spells to confuse and misdirect foes. Older dragons are especially found of thier non-detection ability.
Breath weapon/special abilities: A shadow dragon's breath weapon is a cloud of blackness that is 40 feet long,30 foot wide and 20 feet in hieght.Creatures caught in the cloud are blinded for one melee round and lose 3/4(round up) of thier life energy(levels or Hit dice);a successful saving throw vs.breath weapon reduces the loss to 1/2(round up).The life energy loss persists for a variable number of turns.shown on the table above.Negative plane protection spells prevent this life energy loss.
A character who is reduced to 0 or fewer levels lapses into a coma for the duration of the clouds effect.
A Shadow dragon casts spells and uses its magical abilities at 6th level, plus its combat modifier.
A shadow dragon are born immune to energy drain and with the ability to hide in shadows with 40% chance of success; this ability increases 5% per age category to a maximum of 95%. As they age, they gain the following additional powers:
Juvenile: mirror image three times a day(1d4-1 image) Adult: dimension door twice a day. Old: non-detection three times a day. Venerable: shadow walk once a day. Great wyrm: create shadows three times a day(this ability creates a mass of leaping shadows with a radius of 100 yards,duration one hour.all magical{and normal}light and darkness sources are negated for as long as they remain in the radius-.
Habit/Society:
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Body Tail
Age Lgt. (') Lgt. (') AC
0-5 3-6 2-5 4
6-15 6-15 5-12 3
16-25 15-24 12-19 2
26-50 24-33 19-27 1
51-100 33-42 27-35 0
101-200 42-51 35-43 -1
201-400 51-60 43-50 -2
401-600 60-69 50-57 -3
601-800 69-78 57-64 -4
801-1,000 78-87 64-73 -5
1,001-1,200 87-96 73-80 -6
1,200+ 96-105 80-87 -7
