Sunday, May 1, 2022

Ompallios, a DCC dragon


If I make a few dragons ahead of time, I'll be ready the next time my players run into one. Which happens. So meet Ompallios. The name came from the DCC appendix, but I recognized it from a top tier Clark Ashton Smith story.

Ompallios is a 162 year old azure dragon the size of a house and aligned with the neutral watchers. It prefers to protect its layer with Fey Runes and it has a couple potions (Human control, Super-heroism) for extra defense. Ompallios keeps tabs on its surroundings by asking local fauna what they have seen.

PCs of any level probably don't stand a chance, unless they grovel, throw down sacks of gold, and offer to go on potion-ingredient quests. If anyone rolls a natural 20 on Personality while grovelling, Ompallios will bond them with its patron, Ithha.

  • 10HD.
  • 60HP.
  • +10 init.
  • 25AC (half damage from mundane).
  • 50' spd.
  • 4d20 action dice.
  • +13 to hit (2 claws for d8s, bite for d12, and a tail slap for d20).
  • 2d14 dragon-crits.
  • stone gaze in lieu of an action die (target must save vs DC20 or be stoned).
  • 2 breaths a day of poison gas (save versus death; goes up to 90' covering 10xd3 feet) in lieu of an action die.
  • d30+6 to cast spells.
    • Color spray
    • Mending
    • Invoke patron (Ithha) 
    • Magic mouth
    • Locate object
    • Monster summoning
    • Paralysis (-2 to cast)
    • Make potion
    • Runic alphabet, fey
  • Can speak with animals 1/hour in lieu of an action die.
  • Can cause plants withing 100' to grow to entangling lengths (-2 to attacks and move at half speed for people stuck in the area) 1/hour in lieu of an action die.
  • Can reverse gravity in a 100' radius 1/day (it doesn't fall up, but everything else falls up 100') and cancel the effect to enjoy watching everyone fall in leu of an action die.
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