RACE:               Titanium Dragon
CLIMATE/TERRAIN:    Any mountains
FREQUENCY:          Very rare
ORGANIZATION:       Solitary or clan
ACTIVITY CYCLE:     Any
DIET:               Special
INTELLIGENCE:       Supra-genius (19-20)
TREASURE:           Special
ALIGNMENT:          Lawful Good

NO. OF APPEARING:   1 (2-5)
ARMOR CLASS:        -5 (base)
MOVE:               12, Fl 45 (C), Jp 3
HIT DICE:           18 (base)
THAC0:              3 (base)
NO. OF ATTACKS:     3 + special
DAMAGE/ATTACK:      2-12/2-12/5-50 (5d10)
SPECIAL ATTACKS:    Special
SPECIAL DEFENSES:   Variable
MAGIC RESISTANCE:   Variable
SIZE:               G (58' base)
MORAL:              Fearless (19-20)
XP VALUE:           Variable

Titanium dragons are among the most powerful of 
all good dragons. They hate everything evil and 
their goal in life is to defeat the forces of 
evil in any way they can. Like gold and silver 
dragons, titanium dragons are often encountered 
in human form. The two forms they usually 
choose are paladins and ancient wizards; females 
opt to appear as beautiful young maidens.  
At birth, a titanium dragon's scales are dull 
gray or even white; as they age the scales 
become silver, platinum, and finally a deep 
titanium in color. Due to these colorations, 
and because their appearances are similar, 
younger titanium dragons can be mistaken for 
silver dragons. A titanium dragon has two "fins" 
on top of its head, instead of one like the 
silver, and they also have two smaller "fins" 
on the sides of their necks; otherwise, they 
are nearly identical to silver dragons.

Titanium dragons speak their own tongue, a tongue 
common to all good dragons, and 20% of hatchling 
titanium dragons have an ability to communicate 
with any intelligent creature. The chance to 
possess this ability increases by 5% per age 
category of the dragon.

COMBAT: Because of their great strength, few 
intelligent creatures are willing to attack a 
titanium dragon; those that do, usually meet with 
a swift death. A titanium dragon will only attack 
unprovoked only if it witnesses acts of great evil.

BREATH WEAPON: A titanium dragon has two forms of 
breath weapons, each of which maybe used once 
every three combat rounds. The first type is 
similar to a ** fireball ** when used, a two-foot 
diameter sphere shoots forth from the dragon's 
mouth out to any distance the dragon chooses, up 
to 50 yards, plus 10 yards per age category of 
the dragon. Any creature caught in the straight-
line path of this weapon receives half normal 
damage (save vs. breath weapons for a quarter of 
the damage.) The burst radius is of any size the 
dragon wishes up to 10' per age category of the 
dragon. Creatures within the burst radius may save 
versus breath weapons for half damage.

The second breath weapon is a ** bolt of chain 
lightning ** which is identical to the spell of the 
same name, except for the following: damage is taken 
as per the table above (all victims may save versus 
breath weapons for half damage.) The possible number 
of targets affected is equal to the number of hit 
dice of the breath attack; each additional arc loses 1
d8 points of damage. Thus, a juvenile dragon can 
affect up to sixteen targets with this breath weapon. 
The first target will suffer 16d8+4 damage, the second 
15d8+4, the third 14d8+4, and so on. The range is 50 
yards plus 10 yards per age category of the dragon. 
The chain will never arc back on the originating dragon, 
or to any other lawful good dragon. There is only a 
50% chance it will arc to acreature that is immune to 
lightning (electricity.)  If the chain gets out of 
hand the dragon, the originating dragon can end it at 
will.

A titanium dragon casts its spells and uses its magical 
abilities at 12th level, plus its combat modifier. Like 
gold dragons, titanium dragons usually seek formal 
magical training; they also use spell books which 
will contain carefully selected and useful spells.

At birth, titanium dragons are immune to fire and 
electricity. They may also ** polymorph self ** four 
times per day as a gold dragon can.  As they age, they 
gain the following additional powers:

AGE           SPECIAL ABILITY
Young         ** Wall of fire ** (three times per day)

Juvenile      ** Prayer ** (twice a day)

Adult         ** Luck bonus ** (same as gold dragon's 
except +2 instead of +1)

Mature adult  ** True seeing ** (priest version, permanent 
duration)

Very old      ** Monster summoning VII ** (once per day, 
good creatures only)

Venerable     ** Prismatic sphere ** (once per day)

HABITAT: Titanium dragons can be found in any 
mountainous region; they lair in the tops of the 
highest mountain peaks in caves or castles. They have 
loyal guards such as storm giants, good cloud giants, 
ki-rin, and even gold and silver dragons. They have 
been known to help good adventurers in times of need 
(they will usually require a service in exchange for 
their help, such as a quest to further the goals of 
good.)

Because their territories often overlap, titanium 
dragons often clash with red dragons, which are one 
of the few creatures brave (or foolish) enough to 
attack titanium dragons. Because of their mutual 
immunity to fire, reds will usually attack in groups 
using spells, while titanium dragons use their chain 
lightning breath weapon and spells. The red dragons 
usually come out on the short end of such battles; 
there have been reports of an ancient titanium dragon 
killing five reds with a single chain lightning 
breath attack, but this remains unproven. If a red 
dragon is lucky enough to survive these combats, 
it will usually avoid titanium dragons in the future 
- even red dragons are not that foolish.

ECOLOGY: Titanium dragons can eat nearly anything, 
but they prefer a diet of metals and gems. They will 
always have plenty of this stored in their treasure 
hoards, but will gratefully accept more from 
adventurers; they consider this a great gift, and will 
reward the gift-givers, if they are sincere.