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Claws:
Bite:
Snatch:
Plummet:
Kick:
Wing Buffet
Tail Slap:
Stall
Spells
Breath Weapon:
HOW DO THEY BREATH FIRE?
Cold/Frost Breather:
Acid Breather:
Fire:
All dragons have a claw/claw/bite attack form and a breath weapon. Dragons also employ several other attack forms which are detailed in the following text. Dragons frequently divide their attacks between opponents, using the more dangerous attacks, such as the bite; against the foes they perceive to be the toughest. A dragon's preferred attacks are usually, in order, breath weapon, magical abilities (or spells), and physical attacks. A dragon that breathes during a round of combat cannot also attack physically. Magical abilities (but not spells) can be used in addition to any attacks, except the breath weapon.
Only young adult and older dragons can snatch. This occurs when a flying dragon dives and attempts to grab a creature in one of its claws. A creature struck by this method is taken into the air. There is a 50% chance that a snatched creature has its arms pinned, and therefore cannot physically attack the dragon. Snatched creatures are sometimes taken to great heights and dropped. The snatched creature can be squeezed in the claw for automatic claw damage, or transferred to the dragon's mouth , if the transfer succeeds, the victim automatically suffers bite damage; if it fails, the victim is dropped. Dragons of age old and older can carry a victim in each claw, and they can try to snatch two victims at once. Wyrms and great wyrms can carry three victims, but one of the first two snatched must be transferred from claw to mouth before the third can be snatched. A dragon can snatch creatures two or more size categories smaller than itself. For example, a dragon that is 45' long is a Gargantuan creature, so the biggest creature it can snatch is a Large one (12' long).
Because of a dragon's long neck, it can bite creatures to its back and sides
A dragon can use its claws to attack creatures to its front and sides. If the dragon kicks with one rear leg, it can attack with only one claw (the other must be used to maintain balance).
Any dragon can kick creatures attacking it from behind.
Young adult and older dragons can employ their wings in combat. Dragons can also use their wings as an attack weapon if need be, but this is a last resort. The wing membranes are easily damaged compared to the rest of a dragon body. If a dragon wing membrane is slashed, it takes a very long time to heal, and there is a chance the dragon might never fly again if it does not heal correctly. If attacked on the ground, the dragon will usually run then jump in the air and fly off avoiding the attacker. But if the dragon is trapped on the ground it will tuck its wings tightly against its body and use its breath weapon and claws to protect itself. If the dragon has to use its wings to attack it will scoop down and slash with its razor sharp wing claws to immobilize the attacker.
An airborne dragon, or a dragon jumping and descending from at least 30 feet above a target, can land on a victim. The dragon crushes and pins opponents using its claws and tail, inflicting damage equal to its bite.
Dragons learn spells haphazardly over the years. The dragon can cast each spell once per day, unless random determination indicates the same spell more than once, in which case the dragon can cast it more than once a day. Dragons to not use spell books or pray to deities; they simply sleep, concentrate when they awaken, and remember their spells.
Any dragon flying near the ground can halt its forward motion and hover; it must land immediately thereafter. Once stopped, the dragon can attack with its bite and all four legs. It can use its breath weapon instead, but this rarely happens since dragons can breathe on the wing. If a dragon stalls in an area with lots of trees or loose earth, the draft from its wings creates a dust cloud with the same radius as its fear aura. Creatures within the cloud are blinded, and no spell casting is possible.
Adult and older dragons can use their tails to attack creatures to their rear and sides. A tail attack inflicts the same damage as two claw attacks and affects as many targets as the dragon's age category.
It all starts when the dragon catch their prey. When dragons eat, they digest the food in a regular stomach. The digestion then continues in a second stomach that breaks down the food even further. After the dragon's body has used all it can from the second digestion, the body then turns the leftover food and acid into a byproduct of hydrogen. The dragon can hold the hydrogen in various large glands in its body for later use, and can call upon it at any time it needs to. When the dragon needs to belch its flame, the glands release the hydrogen into the lungs where it mixes with other various chemicals the body creates. Once this mixture finds oxygen, it burns extremely hot and very quick. The dragon usually has enough hydrogen in its body for about three spits of flame, but that should be plenty for anything coming up against a large red dragon. This explanation is about the same for dragons that breathe other types of breath. Their bodies just break down food into different compounds.
The easiest of them, all organic creature secrete gastric acid to break down the food, dragon who can spit acid have a special organ that produce a powerful acid (probably HCl) that the dragon release when he breathe, the opponent is burn by the acid, even with the best armor usually make of metal that make bad reaction with acid.
Some dragons breathe a cone of frost, the explanation for this resides also in the food that the dragon ingests. The food is break down into the stomach primary for nutrition but the remain bear some chemicals reactions that will give a gas, I suppose to be Nitrogen (N2) (I have not yet found the exact composition of it but I continue to work hard to find the most probable natural refrigeration gas), the gas is compress by extremely strong muscles, exactly alike the base system of a refrigeration system, the dragon doesn't need to thing for it because it is spontaneous and painless. When a dragon needs to freeze an opponent, the highly compressed nitrogen, that almost reach the liquid state, is release in the lungs and when the gas comes into air, it uncompressed at an unimaginable speed. That result in the gas absorbs all the heat in is environment. This cause the temperature in the breath to drop to an average of -50 �C (more test had to be made to know a more exact �T), anyone caught in the path of the breath without heavy heat protection are at least seriously injured and only death remain for the weaker one.
The thing that makes the dragon most feared. It's a hellish belch of flame that can turn flesh and bone into ash. Though, not all dragons breathe fire. Some have freezing cold breath, others have acid, and some don't use their breath as a weapon at all! The two that have fire breathing power are the Red Dragon and Fire Drake.