Draconian breath attacks
When draconians reach XL 7, they receive a colour and an associated draconian breath attack. Each colour receives its own unique attack, except for grey draconians (they stop breathing entirely and become immune to certain effects as a result). While these attacks are fairly powerful, they all come with a significant hunger cost and inflict the breath status effect, preventing you from using them repeatedly in combat.
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Red draconians receive Breathe Fire, which allows you to bellow forth a bolt of flame which leaves a cloud of fire at its destination.
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White draconians receive Breathe Frost, which allows you to bellow forth a bolt of frost which ignores AC and knocks back flying creatures.
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Green draconians receive Breathe Mephitic, which allows you to cough up a noxious trail of Mephitic Clouds, confusing the target and doing very minor damage.
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Yellow draconians receive Spit Acid, which allows you to spit a corrosive glob at an enemy which corrodes their armour and may inflict bleeding.
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Black draconians receive Breathe Lightning, which allows you to generate electricity explosions around you while firing Lightning Bolts in random directions. Very powerful, but impossible to aim and somewhat dangerous to the user.
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Pale draconians receive Breathe Steam, which allows you to issue forth a bank of scalding steam that deals weak damage while also blocking line of sight.
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Purple draconians receive Breathe Energy, which allows you to launch a bolt of irresistible power at a line of enemies, reducing the duration of any magical effects currently on them.
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Mottled draconians receive Breathe Sticky Flame, which allows you to splatter an adjacent target with deadly Sticky Flame. May splash onto targets adjacent to the monster you selected!
Special
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Although no characters acquire this naturally, a character with the Breathe Poison mutation can launch large clouds of poisonous gas.
Monster Version
Monstrous dragons and draconians are capable of identical breath attacks which are also determined by their associated element, though there are some exceptions:
- Monstrous green draconians and swamp dragons have Breathe Poison instead of Breathe Mephitic.
- Monstrous black draconians and storm dragons breathe regular Lightning Bolts in place of the uncontrollable havoc player black draconians create.
- Monstrous mottled draconians and mottled dragons have ranged Sticky Flame breath.
- Player ghosts of draconians will always have a draining breath attack, regardless of the character's initial color.
- The unique draconian Tiamat can breathe whichever breath attack matches her current color.
