Old 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: 32
Hit points: 287
Attack bonus: +30/+25/+20/+15
Damage: 2d6 +9 / 2d6 +9 / 2d8 +9 (claw / claw / bite creature weapons)

Hit dice (level): 25
Challenge rating: 17

Saves
	fortitude	19
	reflex	14
	will	16

Abilities
	strength	29
	dexterity	10
	constitution	21
	intelligence	14
	wisdom	15
	charisma	14

Spell resistance: 22

Damage immunity
	acid	100%

Damage reduction: 10/+1

Trained skills:^(‡) concentration (27), listen (29), search (27), spot (29)
Feats: alertness, cleave, darkvision, improved critical (creature), knockdown, power attack, weapon proficiency (creature)

Blueprint:^(‡) nw_drgblack002
Standard loot: dragon blood

Special abilities[]

An old 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 fireball and lightning bolt twice per day and darkness thrice per day as spell-like abilities with a caster level of 7.