In dim light or darkness, the shadow dragon has resistance to all damage that isn’t force, psychic, or radiant. Senses blindsight 30 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 18 Saving Throws: Dex +4, Con +9, Wis +4, Cha +8 Well, picture that, but the sauce is pure, distilled nightmares. Like those bad burger videos that always end with a perfectly acceptable quarter pounder getting drowned in Kraft cheese sauce. No thank you.Īnd then, because the world isn’t already a deeply troubling place, the Shadow Dragon takes everything that’s scary about regular dragons and tops it off with a heaped spoonful of nightmare fuel. Because a dragon is probably eating their freaking house. A highly intelligent, essentially immortal spellcaster with a body (covered in near-impenetrable scales) the size of an apartment block… that can breathe fire… and fly… and has no frame of moral reference that’s remotely human – dear gods why does anyone in Faerun ever go outside?

Look, regular dragons are stomach-clenchingly scary. Slinking through the darkest corners of the world, cloaked in all-consuming blackness of its own making, the beast approaches. If someone is trying to spot a shadow dragon, the eyes, pools of feral gray opalescence, are the easiest to detect.

The bat-like wings are semitransparent, as is most of the body. “Shadow dragons appear as wormlike dragons of lighter and darker shadows.

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