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Greater Invocations
Aura of Flame: Aura deals fire damage to creatures that
strike you.
Baleful Geas: A single creature becomes your servant,
but slowly sickens and dies.
Chilling Fog: Create solid fog that deals cold damage.
Devour Magic: Use targeted greater dispel magic with a
touch and gain temporary hit points based on the level of
the spell successfully dispelled.
Draconic Toughness: Gain temporary hit points equal
to your level.
Terrifying Roar: Use fear as the spell; creatures shaken
by effect can’t attack you.
Wingstorm: Create powerful gusts of wind with your
invocation-granted wings.
Dark Invocations
Draconic Flight, Greater: Sprout wings and fly at perfect
maneuverability; gain overland speed.
Energy Immunity: Gain immunity to acid, cold, electricity,
fire, or sonic damage.
Instill Vulnerability: Make target creature vulnerable
to specified energy type.
Perilous Veil: Use veil as the spell; anyone succeeding on
Will save to negate the illusion takes damage.
PLAYING A DRAGONFIRE ADEPT
You are a student of what is arguably the oldest and most
powerful force any mortal can manipulate—the fiery breath
of dragons. Remember the nobility and grace of the forces you
seek to understand, and act in all ways as you would expect a
dragon to act. You are fierce as a friend, terrible as a foe, and
confident in all actions. You see the value of treasure, but
refuse to be defined or slowed down by what you own. The
only improvement worth your time is self-improvement, and
you take any opportunity to test yourself against the challenges
of the world. You are steadfast in your goals, never
allowing your quest for dragonlike powers to eclipse what
you want to do with those powers. Your goals are both simple
and grand, requiring years or even a lifetime of work—eliminating
one entire race of foes, ruling your own kingdom,
founding your own school or community, righting an ancient
wrong, being acknowledged by true dragons as one of their
kind, and so on. Nothing less is worthy of your time.
Religion
Most likely, you don’t pay much attention to religion, focusing
more on dragons than deities. If you do have religious
tendencies, you’re drawn to the same gods as sorcerers: Wee
Jas, Vecna, and Boccob. Dragon deities, including Bahamut
and Tiamat, are also popular choices, and you’re willing to
worship them even in lands where few others do so.
Other Classes
You value study, discipline, and raw power. You get along well
with spellcasters of all kinds, especially bards and druids,
whom you see as delving into the essence of music or nature
much as you delve into the essence of breath weapons. You’re
similarly impressed with the skill shown by monks and
fighters, who have devoted themselves to mastering styles of
combat and self-improvement. In fact, you’re tolerant of all
classes, as long as members of those classes show you respect
and have compatible alignments.
Combat
You are best served by hitting your foes first and keeping
your distance from them. More resilient than a sorcerer, you
still lack the defensive power of spellcasters or the armor
of fighters, making you vulnerable (especially in melee).
However, you need not move close to a foe to deal damage,
and you can often catch multiple targets in a breath weapon
attack. You are a heavy hitter in your party, but you depend
on allies to keep foes from closing with you or focusing on
you with ranged attacks.
As you advance, you are well served to invest in breath
effects and invocations that have an effect other than dealing
damage. If you can’t drop a foe in one or two attacks, you
can use Sickening Breath, Slow Breath, the frightful presence
invocation, or the like to make your opponent less dangerous
in a prolonged fight.
Advancement
You have spent your life trying to learn the secrets of a race
older and more powerful than your own. This interest in
dragons is more than academic—it has been the motivating
force for years of difficult study, practice, and experimentation.
Perhaps a dragon’s breath weapon once destroyed your
home or killed a loved one, and you vowed to gain control
of the power that ruined your life. Or perhaps a good dragon
used its breath weapon to eliminate an entire horde that otherwise
would have raided your homeland. Whatever the case,
since the day you first set foot on this path, you’ve worked to
master a magic that is more primal than spells and more likely
to provide defense than training with shields and armor.
The invocations you choose strongly shape your abilities.
You are heavily invested in combat prowess as a result of the
confrontational nature of breath weapons, but you have some
flexibility in how you develop your power. If you choose only
offensive invocations, you will have few defenses and limited
versatility beyond combat, but you’ll be devastating even in
situations when your breath weapon is not a strong tactical
choice. If you focus on other invocations, you will have more
options outside a fight, but you might have only area attacks
that could accidentally hurt a friend, or you might lack the
elemental damage type needed to harm a particular foe.
CHAPTER 2
DRAGON
ASPIRANTS
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