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Earth dragons are slow, lumbering creatures. They look
like a cross between a brown dragon and an earth elemental.
At first glance, they could even be mistaken for statues,
until a person sees the dragon's eyes following them around,
and its muscles gently rippling across its body.
Earth dragons are slow moving and slow thinking ("slow as
a treant and galeb duhr combined" goes the saying). They
aren't the brightest of the elemental dragons, but they are
by no means stupid; they are still able to outsmart most
humans. They have slow tempers to go with their slow action.
Happily, they're are slow to anger, but they're also slow to
forgive or forget. In fact, the only creatures to hold
grudges longer than earth dragons are fiends and powers
themselves.
Earth dragons speak their own tongue, as well as the
tongues of earth elementals and that common to all elemental
dragons. At birth, 10% of earth dragons can speak with any
intelligent creature. This chance goes up by 3% per age
category.
Combat: While
earth dragons are slow and not manoeuvrable, they more than
make up for in physical power what they lack in speed and
wit. Perhaps the most physically imposing of all the
elemental dragons, they can inflict massive damage with
their claws and bite. They can also make use of their innate
spell abilities and breath weapon when needed, but the
prefer to fight claw to hand.
Breath Weapon/Special
Abilities: An earth dragon's breath weapon is a
cloud-like spray of rock shards and fragments that is 50'
long, 40' wide, and 30' high. Creatures caught in the cloud
must save vs. breath weapon or be turned to stone. Creatures
who save suffer 1d20 points of damage from sharp edges and
pebbles.
- An earth dragon casts spells and uses its magical
abilities at 13th-level plus its combat modifier.
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- Earth dragons are born immune to energy draining,
stoning, fire, and cold. They can also meld with
stone at will.
- As they age, they gain the following abilities: Very
Young: create earth at will. Young Adult:
transmute rock to mud three times per day. Mature
Adult: move earth three times per day. Very Old:
stone shape three times per day. Wyrm: summon
earth elemental three times per day. Great Wyrm:
disintegrate three times per day.
Habitat/Society:
Earth dragons, like all other elemental dragons, very rarely
leave their home plane. When they are encountered on other
planes, they are usually found living in (via their meld
with stone ability) mountains. Sometimes they can be found
in deep caverns.
Nearly all (90%) of earth dragons are neutral. There is
an equal (5%) chance that they are either evil or good. All
earth dragons are neutral in relation to law and chaos.
Of all the Outer Planes, earth dragons are drawn to the
mountains of Gehenna and Mount Olympus itself; there are
said to be at least half a dozen earth dragons dwelling on
the slopes of the plane-spanning pathway. The creatures
aren't known on Mount Celestia; presumably they find the
atmosphere of Lawful Goodness too oppressive. Chant also
goes that a great wyrm named Gor'rok dwells at the foot of
the Spire itself, gnawing away at the great pillar of stone.
What the rilmani think of this is unknown.
Ecology: Earth
dragons have little need for sustenance. They survive on
eating stones and metals. Earth dragon tunnels are a good
way of navigating the otherwise-solid Plane of Earth,
provided the earth dragon isn't still in them. Since the
Earth Plane "heals" itself fairly rapidly, this is often a
risky proposition...
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