Undead Dragons
Long-lived as they are, some dragons remain in the Bone Mongrel Dracolich
world, active and malicious, even when heartbeats
falter and necrotic energy instead of blood provides
animation.
DRACOLICH
As described in the Monster Manual, a dracolich is
created from a powerful dragon through an evil
ritual. Some dragons willingly choose to become
sentient undead; others have the ritual forced upon
them. Dracoliches are greedy for power and treasure,
but individuals pursue other goals equally passion-
ately. Dracoliches can arise from dragon families
other than the chromatic, but chromatics are most
prone to the transformation.
Bone Mongrel
Dracolich
A DRAGON DOES NOT BECOME this sort of dracolich by
choice. A bone mongrel is created from the remains
of several dead dragons to form an animate and dully
sentient whole.
This skeletal dragon is about the size of a large
horse, with a malevolent light burning in its eye sock-
ets. The denuded bones forming the creature clearly
do not match, and the dragon’s skull shows rivets
where the lower jaw and various horns have been
attached.
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Level 8 Elite Brute
Large natural magical beast (dragon, undead) XP 700
Initiative +7 Senses Perception +9; darkvision
HP 218; Bloodied 109
AC 22; Fortitude 21, Reflex 19, Will 18
Immune disease, fear, poison; Resist 15 necrotic; Vulnerable 10
radiant
Saving Throws +2
Speed 6, fly 8 (clumsy)
Action Points 1
m Bite (standard; at-will) ✦ Necrotic
Reach 2; +11 vs. AC; 2d8 + 6 necrotic damage, and the target
takes ongoing 5 damage (save ends).
M Flensing Teeth (standard; at-will)
The dracolich makes a bite attack against each of two different
targets.
C Breath Weapon (standard; recharge ⚄ ⚅) ✦ Necrotic
The dracolich unleashes a blast of bone shards: close blast 5;
+9 vs. Reflex; 2d10 + 10 necrotic damage, and the target takes
ongoing 5 damage (save ends). First Failed Saving Throw: The
ongoing damage increases to 10.
C Horrid Presence (standard; encounter) ✦ Fear
Close burst 5; targets enemies; +9 vs. Will; the target is pushed
3 squares and dazed (save ends).
Alignment Evil Languages Draconic
Str 22 (+10) Dex 17 (+7) Wis 11 (+4)
Con 19 (+8) Int 7 (+2) Cha 12 (+5)
Bone Mongrel Dracolich Lore
A character knows the following information with a
successful Religion check.
DC 20: The evil ritual that creates this creature
requires the bones of several dead dragons. When
the ritual is complete, the disparate parts are trans-
formed into a malevolent skeletal monstrosity. The
creature hates its mockery of life but, owing to the
ritual’s evil nature, cannot end its own animation.
DC 25: A bone mongrel’s phylactery takes the
form of a skeletal portion of a dragon incorporated
into the dracolich, such as a tail section.
Bone Mongrel Dracolich
Tactics
A bone mongrel enters combat with a blast of its
breath weapon. It then moves into melee range, spend-
ing an action point to attack with flensing teeth.
Bone mongrel dracoliches fight until destroyed—
they do not wish to prolong their wretched existence.
RICK SARDINHA
8/29/08 11:17:27 AM