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: 38
Hit points: 387
Attack bonus: +35/+30/+25/+20
Damage: 2d6 +11 / 2d6 +11 / 2d8 +11 (claw / claw / bite creature weapons)
| Abilities | ||
|---|---|---|
| strength | 33 | |
| dexterity | 10 | |
| constitution | 23 | |
| intelligence | 16 | |
| wisdom | 17 | |
| charisma | 16 | |
Trained skills:(‡) concentration (33), listen (36), search (34), spot (36)
Feats: alertness, cleave, combat casting, darkvision, improved critical (creature), knockdown, power attack, weapon proficiency (creature)
Blueprint:(‡) nw_drgblack003
Standard loot: dragon blood
Special abilities[]
An ancient 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 also has many spell-like abilities with a caster level of 11. Of these, it can cast acid fog and horrid wilting once per day; cone of cold, confusion, dispel magic, dominate person and fireball twice per day; and darkness thrice per day.
See also: wyrmling black dragon, adult black dragon, old black dragon