Adult black dragon

Black dragons are evil-tempered, cunning, and malevolent. Especially fond of coins, they often question their humanoid prey about stockpiles of gold before killing them.

Statistics[]

Race: dragon
Size: huge
Alignment: chaotic evil
Armor class: 26
Hit points: 199
Attack bonus: +23/+18/+13/+8
Damage: d8 +6 / d8 +6 / 2d6 +6 (claw / claw / bite creature weapons)

Hit dice (level): 19
Challenge rating: 13

Saves
	fortitude	15
	reflex	11
	will	12

Abilities
	strength	23
	dexterity	10
	constitution	19
	intelligence	12
	wisdom	13
	charisma	12

Spell resistance: 18

Damage immunity
	acid	100%

Damage reduction: 5/+1

Trained skills:^(‡) concentration (24), listen (22), persuade (9), search (20), spot (22)
Feats: alertness, cleave, darkvision, knockdown, power attack, weapon proficiency (creature)

Blueprint:^(‡) nw_drgblack001
Standard loot: dragon blood

Special abilities[]

An adult black dragon has the usual dragon immunities to paralysis, mind-affecting, and sneak attack, and it has permanent true seeing.

This creature can use its acid dragon breath thrice per day, and aura of dragon fear once per day. It can also cast magic missile twice per day and darkness and daze thrice per day as spell-like abilities with a caster level of 3.