Knife Dragon for Dragonbane RPG.

The term “Dragon” is misleading because the creature is actually a sort of golem animated by demonic magic. Hundreds of years ago a wise king ordered the town’s blacksmiths to make the statue of a dragon out of all of the knives, swords, and other metal weapons removed from battlefields and confiscated from criminals. The mighty dragon stood in the main square of the largest town in the kingdom as a testament to law and order in the kingdom.

The statue is a large mass of metal, hilts, and hafts. Its wings were crafted from longswords and greataxes. The beasts open mouth is filled with teeth made of daggers and knives with a red athame as its tongue. The fearsome looking beast sports the tips of longswords and broadswords on its outstretched claws. Its tail is a wicked barbed spear point capable of impaling unsuspecting adventurers.

The villagers were quite proud of the statue; cleaning and oiling it two or three times per year. Over the years, the kingdom waned. The wise king who commissioned the statue passed away and eventually his heirs succumbed to corruption and decline as all royal families do. People stopped caring about the dragon statue, save a group of cultists who met in the dark of night.

Following a ritual one night when the veil was at its thinnest, the athame glowed and the dragon roared to life! Of course it promptly slayed and feasted upon the cultists, their blood somehow aiding in the creature’s revival. Now the metal monstrosity rains terror down on anything and everything that crosses its path. Unfortunately, the townspeople were slaughtered or fled to the mountains. The local lord was destroyed by the dragon and his people scattered upon seeing what it had done to him.

Knife Dragon

Description: A large metallic dragon statue comprised of various blades and hilts.

Resistance: Immune to Fear, Takes half damage from piercing and slashing weapons, made of solid metal- rolling a dragon has no additional effects when attacking this creature.

Ferocity: 2              Size: Large
Movement: 18 (Flying).    Armor: 6              HP: 36*

Knife Dragon ATTACKS

D6 Attacks:

1: Metal Shard Breath: The dragon flies up 3 meters off the ground and unleashes a massive blast of metallic shards from its mouth forming a cone that is 10 meters long and whose width at any given point equals the distance from the dragon’s mouth. Any player character hit by the flames suffers 3D8 damage.

2: Claw Attack! The dragon sweeps its claws at a player characters, who suffers 2D10 slashing damage.

3: Scream From Beyond! The dragon opens its mouth and lets out a chilling roar. All player characters within 20 meters suffer a fear attack, with a Bane on the WIL roll.

4: Hellish Bite: The beast opens its mouth full of razor sharp knife blades and tears a chunk out of one PC.  The attack inflicts 3D10 slashing damage. The wound continues to bleed for 1d6 damage per round for 1d6 rounds unless a Healing check or magic are applied.

5: Wing Buffet: The dragon sweeps its wings at its victims hurling small metal shards a blast of wind. All player characters within 8 meters suffer 2D8 slashing  damage and are knocked down. Armor works against the damage, but not the knockdown.

6: Wicked Tail Strike! The dragon whips around and impales one of the player characters on its barbed spear tail. The affected character takes 1d10 piercing damage and must make a STR check to extricate themselves from the barbed spear point. Failure to remove the spear continues to inflict 1d6 damage per round and the character moves with the dragon until. The character may be released by the dragon on its turn or when another Wicked Tail Strike is rolled.

*Killing the Knife Dragon is difficult at best unless Banish or Purge are used on the creature. When the creature reaches 0 HP, the athame tongue may be removed and can be destroyed with Banish, Purge, magical fire, a blacksmith’s forge or by casting it into volcano. Failure to remove the athame or melt the entire dragon will cause it to regenerate 1 hp per day for 36 days when the dragon will rise again. It will hunt any creature whose blood touched its body.

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This Supplement was created under Fria Ligan AB’s Dragonbane Third Party Supplement License.