Lashona is an incredibly ancient and devout follower of Kyuss the Wormgod. She's also the bitter foe of Dragotha, the original Dracolich and Kyuss' herald on the Material Plane.
So, combining this wisdom and animosity, what would you get?
Hopefully, some good planning...
Lashona's Wish List (or, what I would'a done with that nifty ring of three wishes):
Wish #1: Although Lashona is a Vampire, she's a wuss when compared to other dragons of her age category for one very important reason - like it or not, D&D is a numbers game and any being that has lived for 1,500+ years has to have come to grips with this by now.
So, my first wish would be to upgrade my Bonus Vampiric Dragon Hit Points into the Unholy Toughness special ability.
Ok Dragotha and adventurers, BRING IT!
Wish #2: Few creatures gain in power as they age the way dragons do. Undead kinda do (if they're evolved), but not many undead creatures get to take that template and the benefits it grants are limited. Now, I'm sure Lashona was thrilled to learn she's be sleek, slim, and good looking forever - vampires are vain that way - but she couldn't have been particularly pleased with the fact that any other dragon that manages to live as long as she will pass her up in power. Some 'Bride of Kyuss' she'd be if she had to compete with some trollop of a blue dragon who happened to have the hots for the Wormgod just so happened to live long enough to become a Great Wyrm.
The nerve!
So, my second wish sould be for me to continue aging as a dragon until I reached Great Wyrm status. If I needed any additional advancement I'd start gaining experience points and taking those funky dragon prestige classes in the Draconomnican.
There, biotch, see if any anyone can rival me now! No way am I gonna be content remaining at the same power level for 1,500 years!!!!
Wish #3: Discretion is typically the better part of valor, and in this case Lashona'd be pretty well served to keep this on hand for an emergency. If I just had to use it, however, I'd wish for something like "I wish to receive a saving throw or the appropriate type even against effects that normally do not allow a save" or something like that. That'd keep me alive for a bit against stuff like a Sphere of Annihilation or naty turning effects that instnatly fry undead.
Yeah, that's what I'd do!
Unholy Toughness-I know it's been discussed previously-but I can't find the thread-what is it exactly and what book is it in?
i believe its in liber mortis
Unholy Toughness-I know it's been discussed previously-but I can't find the thread-what is it exactly and what book is it in?i believe its in liber mortis
Nope. That's just Improved Toughness. Unholy Toughness comes to us courtesy of the Monster Manual III. The undead with unholy toughness gets hit points as if its Charisma score was a Constitution score. Nice way of making melee undead survivable without making their HD ridiculous.
Nope. That's just Improved Toughness. Unholy Toughness comes to us courtesy of the Monster Manual III. The undead with unholy toughness gets hit points as if its Charisma score was a Constitution score. Nice way of making melee undead survivable without making their HD ridiculous.
Yep. It was either Mona or Jacobs (I think it was Jacobs) who admitted that the very reason they gave Dragotha Unholy Toughness was because it's such a fine solution to the Constitution problem with high-level undead. He went on to add that the only other solution would be to give Dragotha scads of hit dice, like they did in MM II... And I looked through that book recently. I think there are undead in there that have nearly 50 HD. And they're not even epic. It was hillarious, if sad.
I'd need to see Lashonna, but if she dosen't have Unholy Toughness, she probably should.
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Yep. It was either Mona or Jacobs (I think it was Jacobs) who admitted that the very reason they gave Dragotha Unholy Toughness was because it's such a fine solution to the Constitution problem with high-level undead. He went on to add that the only other solution would be to give Dragotha scads of hit dice, like they did in MM II... And I looked through that book recently. I think there are undead in there that have nearly 50 HD. And they're not even epic. It was hillarious, if sad.
I'd need to see Lashonna, but if she dosen't have Unholy Toughness, she probably should.
Vampiric Dragons gain 4 bonus hit points per level, and as it turns out, that's probably enough for Lashonna. She's not supposed to be nearly as tough as Dragotha; if she were, she wouldn't have gone through all the trouble of sending the PCs after him.
Lashonna's plenty tough as she is, never fear.
I do agree she's plenty tough and if sue buffs herself well she'll probably end up taking down a player or two before she finally higs 0 hit points.
The above post is just my humorous take on 'what I would'a done' were I in Lashona's boots. She's a tough customer, though I have to admit that if you're running a group of 6 or more players I'd suggest the Unholy Toughness aspect pretty strongly.
Since I'm on a humorous bent, I'd prably exchange one of Lashona's feats for something like: Has Read the Evil Overlord's Handbook.
But hey, if she'd done that, it would probably end with Kyuss worshiping her and not the other way around!
Vampires can reproduce if they gorge on blood during pregnancy.
This is how Half-Vampires happen if the mother is the undead.
I got this idea from several episodes of Angel.
Does this mean vampiric dragons can go up an age category
if they binge drink blood before sleeping the required time.
Maybe it requires an elixer of undead aging too.
Is an aging spell a necromatic spell?
In Forever Knight there was a drug that caused temporary
humanity.
If she becomes a continuing NPC this may become meaningful.