| Type | Variance | Description | Breath Weapon |
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| Aquatic | High | Their wings resemble fins, they have fish tails in place of back legs, and they resemble aquatic creatures. Examples include fish, turtles, shrimp, crabs, squid, lobsters, salamanders, starfish, krakens, plesiosaurs, and seals. They can breathe water and air. | Their repulsion breath resembles a living cloud which can chase moving targets and navigate around corners. |
| Brittle | High | They're made of brittle materials which bend naturally with their movements. Examples include glass, stained glass, stone, plaster, clay, bone, marble, salt, seashell, candy, chalk, porcelain, and cement. Even inorganic dragons can regrow lost parts. | If any part of them is shattered, they can spit the lost pieces as shrapnel. |
| Container | High | They're mostly hollow and resemble inanimate containers in draconic shapes. Examples include barrels, bags, pottery, backpacks, dinnerware, chests, furniture, baskets, flowerpots, lamps, inkwells, sacks, crates, bottles, pipes, and cauldrons. | They hurl whatever they're carrying. Some dragons can magically replenish their contents. |
| Demonic | High | A demon, like a chasme or a glabrezu, molded into a draconic shape. They appear rarely, since the creation of demons is difficult for even Picaro to control. They might be splices of multiple demons. | Their breath has an extra layer of necrotic damage and bends toward random targets. When overused, it can attract demons. |
| Folding | High | Composed of a flat material which is folded, scaffolded, or glued into a draconic shape. Examples include paper, parchment, papier mache, textiles, wax paper, sheet metal, tapestry, and gelatin. | They usually breathe something tangible and mundane, like paper ribbons or colorful threads. Some dragons' needly breath can snare inanimate material, stitching it to themselves to heal their wounds. Others can ignite themselves once their work is done. |
| Insect | High | Their scales are made of chitin and they adopt features from insects. Examples include ants, bees, wasps, ankhegs, mosquitoes, cockroaches, beetles, ladybugs, flies, centipedes, termites, remorhazes, and mayflies. | They have breath weapons which are similar to normal dragons, but they fire in a line over a greater distance. They can also launch flares to alert their allies. |
| Island | High | They resemble moving landscapes, made of earth, trees, water, and more. They're very slow and require lots of smaller creatures to defend them. | They spit out elementals and mephits. |
| Necrotic | High | Draconic features sprout horribly from the corpse of another creature. | Their breath may infect living or dead targets, creating malicious limbs which fight for control of the host. |
| Pathos | High | They resemble metaphors for specific emotions (or Picaro's strange interpretations). Examples include happiness and discontent, sadness and content, fear and calm, anger and admiration, pity and resentment, surprise and anticipation, confidence and shame, wonder and disgust, confusion and affirmation. | Whatever emotion it represents, its breath attack engenders the opposite. |
| Planetary | High | They resemble the surfaces of known planets, and they usually have no need for wings. Sometimes they have manes which resemble ring systems. | They have the breath attack of one metallic dragon and one chromatic dragon, and they can use both at once. |
| Plant | High | They're fast-healing and composed of plant matter. Examples include ivy, bark, mold, flowers, fruits, and vegetables. | Their breath might grow plants, kill plants, charm animals, summon twig blights, or use druidic magic. |
| Tensile | High | They're made of solid materials which can dent or deform without breaking. Examples include plastic, gum, soap, ductile metals, cheese, and wax. | In addition to repulsion breath, they can hold their breath and morph themselves, or even turn inside-out, in order to repair their dents and gouges. |
| Weird | High | Looking more like elementals than dragons, they're composed of some homogeneous material. Examples include water, sand, leaves, honey, potion, tar, flour, porridge, paint, gravel, chocolate, and wine. | They hurl whatever material they're made of, shrinking in the process. They can throw up their entire bodies and reconstitute far away. |
| Aberration | Medium | An aberration, like an intellect devourer or an otyugh, molded into a draconic shape. | Their breath attack mimics an ability of the base creature. For example, a nothic-dragon has a giant eye in its mouth, which can use a rotting gaze. |
| Cloud | Medium | They're made of nonsolid elements like mist, smoke, or poison gas, granted semisolid form by magic. | Their breath repels targets and may travel in an arc. It can also enchant targets to make them heavier or lighter. |
| Engine | Medium | They're built around machines which give them mechanical or chemical energy. They might contain a combustion engine, an acid battery, or a smaller dragon running on a hamster wheel. They are powered by more than the engine, and appear to be self-perpetuating: a wind-up dragon can wind the key on its back without help, and a windmill dragon becomes stronger from even a gentle breeze. | In addition to their elemental breath, they can inhale fuel from a distance. |
| Hypnagogic | Medium | Every hypnagogic dragon has different vibrant colors and absurd proportions, and moves with unsettling ease. | Targets of their breath feel like the world is swerving and spinning. Their breath attack can be used silently. |
| Monstrosity | Medium | They resemble well-known monstrosities with draconic shapes. | The monstrosity's signature ability is rephrased as a breath weapon. |
| Ogre | Medium | They resemble normal dragons with stout features and warped expressions. They have wings but can't fly for long. | Their breath attack is more like a belch, with a shorter but wider area of effect. |
| Phalanx | Medium | Their many heads and limbs are arranged to resemble a cluster of troops who can defend themselves from any direction. | They breathe small jets of fire in many directions at once. |
| Scarecrow | Medium | Wooden dragons detailed with sackcloth and plant matter. Their twisted jaws are inlaid with silver teeth. | Ghostly claws erupt from their mouths, functioning like the Mage Hand spell. |
| Siege | Medium | They resemble dragon-shaped catapults, trebuchets, ballistas, and other living weapons. | They unhinge their jaws to fire grappling hooks, javelins, firebombs, and more. |
| Singing | Medium | They're suffuse with colors which are abnormal for dragons, like purple and orange. Their bodies resemble bagpipes in a way. | Their breath appears as directional magic music, which can inspire or disrupt creatures, or control small objects. |
| Swarm | Medium | It's stitched from droves of various creatures, usually insects. Bigger swarm dragons can be stitched from bigger parts. | It fires a cloud of living creatures. |
| Boggle | Low | A muddy dragon with a giant head and a wry expression. | It can spit an oil slick, or a cloud of glue which grapples a creature and pulls them toward the dragon. |
| Candle | Low | A colorful but slightly melted dragon with waxy scales. | Its fire breath is milder than others', and causes it to overheat. Melting candle dragons can merge together. |
| Ceramic | Low | Built like pottery, it's immune to acid, lightning, and fire. | Acid, lightning, or fire, depending on the dragon. |
| Disenchanter | Low | It has deep colors which look artificial. Its wings resemble a rust monster's pseudopods. | It can eat magic items to absorb their effects, and temporarily steal nearby magical effects. This includes "+1" effects on weapons and armor, which improve its to-hit and AC respectively. |
| Feather | Low | Lofty dragons shrouded in feathers who can float without using their wings. They often have a chicken-like appearance. | They have a weak repulsion breath which they use to launch and rotate themselves with great dexterity. |
| Gnoll | Low | A twisted hyena with incredible speed and hunger. Hair and scales obscure most of its body, except its widely bared teeth. | Fire, poison, acid, slowing, and/or paralyzing. After eating a strong enough creature, it gains a new type of breath until the end of the day. |
| Hydra, Versatile | Low | It has multiple heads with a variety of powers for any occasion. It occasionally grows a new head with exactly the power it needs. | Their different heads have various functions, sometimes modeled after a balanced adventuring party. |
| Hydra, Queen | Low | It has multiple heads which move independently and can travel up to 300 feet from its body. | When provided enough blood, it can spit out smaller dragons. |
| Modular | Low | It has many heads and limbs taken from various types of dragons. All of them look slightly artificial. | It spits out creatures made from different dragon parts, such as a claw with wings, a head on a leg, two front halves, two back halves, two heads on a wheel of arms, or a smaller modular dragon. |
| Negative | Low | Wingless gray dragons with lethargic movements. They look like positive dragons, but are immune to piercing and slashing damage. Their blood is poisonous and stops things from growing where it spills. | Their necrotic breath stops targets from healing. |
| Positive | Low | Wingless gray dragons with bouncy movements. They look like negative dragons, but are immune to bludgeoning damage. Their spilled blood reanimates as little dragons with various powers. | Their breath animates a limited number of objects under their command. |
| Skeleton | Low | The animated skeleton of a dragon. | Whatever is placed inside its skull or ribcage can be fired like a siege projectile. |
| Sphinx | Low | They have lion-like forms and use their extremely articulate paws for spellcasting. | Their breath functions as a Counterspell. |
| Spider | Low | They have fuzzy chitin in place of scales, eight eyes, and eight legs. For the purpose of their draconic movements, they have four forelegs and four back legs. | They cast nets of silk which can snare creatures and potentially pull them toward the dragon. |
| Sponge | Low | They're miniature, artificial-looking, and apparently harmless. When placed in water, or anything which can be absorbed, they become much stronger. | They can breathe whatever material they absorbed. They also have a spongy solid breath to grapple or throw creatures. |
| Troglodyte | Low | They have muddy pelts and long claws for navigating caves. They can survive for months in various habitats. | Their breath is equivalent to a troglodyte's Stench attack. |
| Wise | Low | They have natural colors resembling the sky and multiple heads with various expressions. | They enchant multiple creatures, giving them abilities from any class at level 1. For spellcasting classes, each target gains use of a cantrip. |
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