E.5 Dragon

Ancient dragons are magical creatures of immense power and wisdom, and are far more powerful than any ordinary character of the same level. However, young dragons can be played as characters, though their unique abilities do pose unique challenges.

Creature Type: Unlike most other playable species, dragons are magical beasts instead of humanoids.

Size: Small. This gives a dragon a 20 foot base speed and a +1 bonus to their Reflex defense, among other effects (see Size Categories).

Attributes: -2 Strength, +1 Dexterity.

Special Abilities:

• Dragon Archetype: Dragons only gain two class archetypes instead of three. Instead, they treat the Dragon archetype as one of their archetypes, and they gain ranks in it just like they gain ranks in class archetypes.
• Draconic Senses: Dragons have darkvision with a 60 foot range, allowing them to see in complete darkness (see Darkvision). In addition, dragons gain low-light vision, allowing them to see clearly in shadowy illumination (see Low-light Vision).
• Draconic Scales: Dragons gain a +2 bonus to their Armor defense.
• Draconic Weapons: Dragons have a bite natural weapon and two claw natural weapons. For details, see Natural Weapons.
• Draconic Wings: Dragons have scaly wings that sprout from their backs. These wings grant them a glide speed equal to the base speed for their size (see Aerial Movement).
• Dragon Type: Each dragon has a single type from among the dragon types on Table C.2: Dragon Types. They are immune to attacks with their associated ability tag.
• Limited Equipment: A dragon’s claws are not able to effectively wield shields or manufactured weapons. They can wear armor, but it is treated as barding instead of normal armor, reducing its effectiveness (see Barding).
• Multipedal: Dragons are multipedal, which grants them a +10 foot bonus to their land speed and a +5 bonus to the Balance skill.

Automatic Languages: Common, Draconic, any one common language.

E.5.1 Dragon Archetype

Rank 1 – Dragon Breath

Rank 2 – Draconic Flight ✨

Your wings grow larger, granting you a limited ability to fly. You gain a fly speed equal to the base speed for your size with a maximum height of 10 feet (see Flight). As a free action, you can increase your fatigue level by one to ignore this height limit until the end of the round.

Rank 3 – Draconic Body

You gain a +1 bonus to your Armor defense.

Rank 4 – Draconic Bulk

Your size category increases to Medium. This increases your base speed to 30 feet. You reduce your Dexterity by 1 and increase your Strength by 2. In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to your power with all abilities.

Rank 5 – Draconic Body+

The Armor bonus from your draconic body ability increases to +2.

Rank 6 – Draconic Flight+ ✨

The maximum height from your draconic flight ability increases to 30 feet. In addition, you gain a +10 foot bonus to your fly speed with that ability.

Rank 7 – Draconic Bulk+

Your size category increases to Large. This increases your base speed to 40 feet. In addition, the attribute modifiers to Dexterity and Strength increase to -2 and +3 respectively, and the power bonus increases to +2. You also gain a tail slam natural weapon. It deals 1d10 damage and has the Impact weapon tag (see Weapon Tags). In addition, you gain a +10 foot bonus to your fly speed with your draconic flight ability.

E.5.2 Base Class Effects

If you choose dragon as your base class, you gain the following benefits.

Attributes

You gain a +1 bonus to your Strength and Constitution. In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to either your Intelligence or your Willpower.

Hit Points

You have 8 hit points + twice your Constitution, plus 2 hit points per level beyond 1. This increases as your level increases, as indicated below.

• Level 7: 20 hit points + three times your Constitution, plus 3 hit points per level beyond 7.
• Level 13: 40 hit points + six times your Constitution, plus 6 hit points per level beyond 13.
• Level 19: 80 hit points + twelve times your Constitution, plus 12 hit points per level beyond 19.

Resources

You learn five trained skills from among your class skills (see Skills).

Weapon Proficiencies

You are not proficient with any manufactured weapons, even simple weapons. You are still proficient with your natural weapons.

Armor Proficiencies

You are proficient with light armor. Armor shaped appropriately for dragons can be hard to find, and may need to be crafted individually for the dragon.

Skills

You have the following class skills:

• Strength: Climb, Swim.

• Dexterity: Balance, Stealth.

• Constitution: Endurance.

• Intelligence: Craft, Deduction, Knowledge (arcana, items), Medicine.

• Perception: Awareness, Creature Handling, Social Insight, Survival.

• Other: Deception, Intimidate, Persuasion.