![]() ![]() It makes for a great boss fight! But it lacks any substance beyond that. In all honesty, the Shadow Dragon is pretty weak. Otherwise, it could quickly become tedious and draining. Just don’t use the hide ability too often. But put the party up against one in a dark room, and bam! You’ve got one of the most exciting, terrifying, and fun boss fights you could possibly setup! If you don’t set this guy up in dark conditions, then this fight will be rather boring. But that’s to be expected it is a dragon, after all. The damage numbers are ridiculously high for a Challenge LVL 13 monster, which will make it rather challenging for an appropriately leveled party. It can bite you, claw at you, and hit you with a shadow-version of its previous elemental breath. Finally justify the bastard that started with all the lamest spells.Īside from those two, it’s a very straightforward fight. I hope you’ve got some bright-ass torches. That’s right: the biggest, most powerful (one of them I am aware that the Tarasque exists) enemy in Dungeons and Dragons now has a stealth mode! In those same conditions, it can use Hide as a bonus action, essentially disappearing at a moment’s notice. Living Shadow gives it resistance to all damage that isn’t force, psychic, or radiant, so long as it’s in dim light or darkness. The Shadow Dragon has a ton of special abilities that make it tricky to fight. The book only provides the stats for a red shadow dragon. Though you’ll have to do a bit of work on your own end. Plus, it’s immune to the element from its previous form if it’s a red shadow dragon, you can’t hurt it with fire. It moves fast as hell, especially when it’s flying, so don’t bother trying to escape without a solid teleport spell at the ready. The AC is just shy of an even 20 and the HP just short of 200. Whether it’s shrouded in darkness or not, the Shadow Dragon is certainly not one to fuck with. It can’t function in sunlight! It’s literally just me, but it’s a dragon! This thing gets Disadvantage on attack and Percpetion rolls in sunlight. Luckily, it makes up for it in the next department. But if you want to make it the centerpiece of a story, you’ll need to do a lot of brainstorming. At best, you can do some fun foreshadowing for a boss fight have some NPCs in the background talk about a dragon that disappeared long ago or some shit like that. Some of them will remain in Shadowfell and lure people in there to keep them company others will return to the Material Plane to continue searching for power and treasure. Other times, they’ll seek it out for the power. ![]() Sometimes they’ll fall through dark portals and end up there without even realizing it. But for the sake of fairness, I will anyways.Ī Shadow Dragon is a transformed dragon in order to change forms, a dragon must spend years within Shadowfell. I don’t even need to talk about it more than that. It’s just five paragraphs of ‘dragon goes into dark dimension and transforms’. Honestly, the lore here is pretty fucking weak. But it’s a fucking dragon! That’s an automatic win in my book! Lore: Live in the Dark, Become the Dark You all know what a dragon looks like they’re the definition of awesome and I don’t need to bother. Thankfully, like the Dracolich before it, I don’t need to talk about the design. This guy falls into the same category as the Dracolich: the “I’m a dragon, except not really” kind of monster. Why does the dragon section start on the next page? This guy literally has dragon in his name! Why doesn’t he count?!
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