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Sacred Mesa

02-28-04, 08:35 PM
I created this template for a Campaing of mine. its a very usefull template because the player gets a responsability in exchage of power. When u give the player this template its very fun to see how it deals with it.

I post it from your consideration.

Dragon Possed

This template is provide by a Dragon Ghost: a dragon that have died and still doesnt have leave the ethereal plane. This Spirit posses a willing host that can provide material representation for the Dragon.

This Dragons seeks for host when the want or need to acomplish something in the material plane, such as killing a enemy or simply breath again. When a Spirit Dragon Possesed a host then he grants some abilities and power to the host according to the Dragon Type and his living abilities.

Type and Size: The criature type changes to Dragon (doesnt recalculate Hitpoints, attack bonus or saves) and adquire the particular Dragon Subtype. the size of the base criature doesnt change.

Speed: The base speed of the criature doesnt change.

Armor Class: This templates provides a +1 Natural Armor Bonus.

Hit Dice: this template increases the Class Hit die of the base criature by one step (max d12)

Attacks: This template provides natural weapons to the base criature. It gives Claws and bite attacks. Claw attacks increases the unarmed strike dice by one step (1d3->1d6.. max d12) and bite attack inflict 1d6 damage points for medium criatures or 1d4 damage points for small criatures.

Special Attacks: this template provide Breath Weapon to the base criature once per day for each experience level the base criature have, this Breath Weapon inflicts as much damage as a Wyrmling Dragon of the apropiate type. A successful Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 Dragon Possesed’s racial HD + Dragon Possed’s Con modifier) reduces damage by half.

Special Qualities: A Dragon Possesed has all the special qualities of the base creature, plus Blind Sight 60 feet. A Dragon Possesed has immunity to sleep and paralysis effects, and an additional immunity based on its dragon variety.

Abilities: Str +4, Con +2, Int +2, Cha +2

Skills: A Dragon Possed adds one skill point each time he earns a experience level (if the base criature is a human then this point stakcs with the one they earn in adition)

Alignment: same as base criature (a particular Dragon will seek for a host of similar alignment)

Level Adjusment: +2