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Stormy and with tempers as quick as greased lightning
(pardon the pun), lightning dragons are one of the more
dangerous elemental dragons to those caught unprepared. They
are often seen flitting (if something of their size can
flit) among the brilliant flashes of lightning that occupy
the Quasi-elemental Plane of Lightning.
Appearing as blue dragons with crackling lightning
dancing from their scales, they prove to be an intimidating
sight. They are surrounded by a soft light which grows in
intensity as they become angry. An extremely mad dragon may
get bright enough to blind a person. They emit a barely
audible rumble that increases in volume proportionally to
the brightness of the light. The sound, however, never
posses a serious threat to damaging ears.
Lightning dragons speak their own tongue and one common
to all elemental dragons. When they are born, they have a
13% chance to speak the language of any sentient creature.
This chance increases by 4% per age category.
Combat: Lightning
dragons like to take an offensive approach to combat,
employing whatever means they have to eradicate opponents.
They rarely flee from combat, even if they are gravely
injured. Their penchant for destruction has been described
by at least on invoker as "charming"
Breath Weapon/Special
Abilities: A lightning dragon's breath weapon is
a 5' wide stroke of lightning that streaks 100' in a
straight line. This bolt inflicts double damage to creatures
wearing metal armour or carrying more than 30 lbs. of
metallic materials.
- Lightning dragons cast spells and use their magical
abilities at 14th-level plus their combat modifiers.
- Any AC bonus gained from metal armour is negated when
fighting a lightning dragon. If a metal shield is used,
the AC bonus from that is negated as well. If a lightning
dragon is struck by a metal weapon, the wielder is
shocked as if she had just been attacked by the lightning
dragon's innate shocking grasp ability.
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- When reduced to less than 1/4 of their maximum hit
points, lightning dragons will become so angry and glow
so brightly, that all who look at them must save vs.
spell or be blinded for 1d10 rounds. Those who pass the
save may look at the dragon as they please.
- Lightning dragons are born immune to energy draining,
blindness, and electricity. They are born with the innate
ability to use shocking grasp at will.
- As they age, they gain the following additional
abilities: Young: lightning bolt three times per
day. Juvenile: thunder staff three times per day.
Adult: chain lightning three times per day. Mature
Adult: wall of lightning (similar to wall of
fire but with lightning instead of fire) three times
per day. Very Old: summon the storm (a version of
control weather which always produces an intense
lightning storm) three times per day.
Habitat/Society:
Lightning dragons prefer to remain on their home plane, but
occasionally make jaunts onto other planes. Storm giants
seem to have a particular liking of the creatures, as do
many invokers.
Lightning dragons have the greatest chance of all
elemental dragons to have a moral bend, with an equal (45%)
chance of being good or evil. The rest (10%) are morally
neutral. This tendency is offset by a low ethical deviation,
with only a small number being lawful or chaotic (5% chance
of either). The others (90%) are ethically neutral.
Ecology: Lightning
dragons sustain themselves on electricity. They seem to be
able to gain small amounts of "natural electricity" from
anywhere they are, so it's near impossible to starve them
outside of a vacuum. They draw electricity towards
themselves, often leaving a "tunnel" behind them when
travelling on the Quasi-Elemental Plane of Lightning. Canny
adventurers have followed lightning dragons through the
plane to escape being hit with a nasty bolt of
lightning.
Because they have a tendency to cause storms, they can be
devastating to an ecology, especially a coastal one. They
tend to do this infrequently, however.
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