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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Breathe Fire
| Breathe a blast of fire at a targeted monster, possibly leaving fire clouds in its wake. |
Red draconians receive Breathe Fire, which allows you to bellow forth a bolt of flame which leaves a cloud of fire at its destination. This can be used to place a single cloud of fire at a desired location (by aiming at a floor tile with [.])
Breathe Frost
| Breathe a blast of frost at a targeted monster. |
White draconians receive Breathe Frost, which allows you to bellow forth a bolt of frost which ignores AC and knocks back flying creatures.
Breathe Mephitic
| Breathe a blast of noxious fumes at a targeted monster. |
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.
Spit Acid
| Spit acid at a targeted monster. |
Yellow draconians receive Spit Acid, which allows you to spit a corrosive glob at an enemy which corrodes their armour and may inflict bleeding.
Breathe Lightning
| Release a great discharge of electricity causing an uncontrollable lightning storm. |
Black draconians receive Breathe Lightning, which allows you to generate electrical explosions around you while firing Lightning Bolts in random directions. Very powerful, but impossible to aim and somewhat dangerous to the user.
Breathe Steam
| Breathe a jet of steam at a targeted monster. |
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.
Breathe Energy
| Breathe a blast of power at a targeted monster, possibly removing some of its enchantments. |
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.
Breathe Sticky Flame
| Breathe a blast of sticky flame at a targeted monster. As the name suggests, sticky flame will stick around, so the monster may be covered in flames for several rounds until they eventually go out. It may splash on impact. |
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!
Breathe Poison
| Breathe a blast of poison gas at a targeted monster. |
Although no characters acquire this naturally, a naga 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 ghost and lichform 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.
