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AD&D Black Dragons
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Characteristics:
  • Excellent swimmers - likes it almost as much as flying
  • Abusive, selfish, evil, cunning
  • Will abandon its young to save itself
  • Prefers to ambush its targets
  • Loves treasures of coins and collects gold, silver, and platinum
  • Likes the night for camouflage
  • Sinister faces
  • Sometimes referred to as Skull Dragons because of eyes and nose openings
Habitat:
  • Found in swamps and jungles, in large damp multichambered caves in the southern isles - especially likes shade and insects
  • Eats aquatic creatures, but will eat land dwellers if they are soaked in the pond first
Physiology:
  • 30-100 feet long
  • Breath weapon: acid
  • The hide around its horn base and cheek bones deteriorates over time, but it doesn't harm the dragon
  • Immune to acid
Meanings
  • Water
Appearances in Literature and Folklore:
  • Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
Sources:

AD&D Monster Manuals 1993 and 2000, www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/2734/black.html, www.polenth.demon.co.uk/dragon/typedd.html, Windseeker

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