Albino dragons and age stats / appearance for the undead (concerning magic).

[Yucale]

I have two questions, purely from curiosity (they won't effect any game I'm now running/playing).

1.) Since dragons are classified by their color, would the albino trait even exist, and if it did, would it change the dragon's stats? Would an albino dragon be able to create more albino dragons if it had such a rare trait?

2.) If a lich was using the ioun stone that prevents the appearance of age and the loss of ability scores due to age before becoming a lich, would the ioun stone still work, and would an undead being lose/gain ability scores due to age anyway? Would the ioun stone prevent the lich from decomposing?

[Abraham spalding]

Albinos are a genetic anomaly but the condition is sometime passed on to the offspring (rarely since generally albinos have other problems too) can be past on. An albino dragon shouldn't have any different stats (unless you as a GM decide otherwise of course). I have thrown an albino red dragon at a party before and it was lots of fun.

[Yucale]

Yeah, they probably wouldn't have different stats unless a new breed had been given sufficient time to develop. I like the irony inherent in the idea of an albino black dragon. It'd also look pretty cool.

[Geistlinger]

Albino Red Dragons are especially interesting as if the PCs mistake it for a White Dragon, they might be in for a world of hurt.

Random Pyro Mage: What do you mean the Fireball had no effect!!??!!!

[Abraham spalding]

Geistlinger wrote:

Albino Red Dragons are especially interesting as if the PCs mistake it for a White Dragon, they might be in for a world of hurt.

Random Pyro Mage: What do you mean the Fireball had no effect!!??!!!

Exactly what happened with my albino red.

"BUT The Townspeoples said it was a WHITE dragon!"

"It is a white dragon -- they also told you they saw it breathing fire."

"We thought they were just stupid ignorant townsfolk!"

"Then why did you listen to them in the first place?"

"..."

[Set]

"No, silly adventurer, I said it was a Wight Dragon! Undead, energy draining, creating spawn, the whole nine yards..."

[Ice Titan]

"I'm sorry, adventurers. You misunderstood; When I told you that I needed you to kill the wight Dagon, I was not saving space nor misspelling my words. Now, if you would proceed into the cave, our undead old god isn't destroying himself, you know..."

[Arazni, Harlot Queen of Geb]

Yucale wrote:

2.) If a lich was using the ioun stone that prevents the appearance of age and the loss of ability scores due to age before becoming a lich, would the ioun stone still work, and would an undead being lose/gain ability scores due to age anyway? Would the ioun stone prevent the lich from decomposing?

The lich naturally ceases to age once he becomes undead (so is unaffected by the loss or gain of ability points), but the ioun stone would not prevent decomposition. For that the lich would need a magic item that granted it the effects of a gentle repose spell.

[Geistlinger]

Like the shirt of gentle repose, described in the Book of Erotic Fantasy.

[clff rice]

Why am o grossed out by the prospect of shirt that preserves dead things in a book about getting the nasty done?

[Geistlinger]

Best not to think about it too much. ;P