How long is a dragon's breath weapon?


Rules Questions


I can't find this in the Bestiary, so I'm asking here. I'm making a young adult white dragon for a boss fight, and need to know how long it's breath weapon is. Any help would be appreciated.

Also, could someone direct me to where I can find this for myself?

Silver Crusade

http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/monsters/dragon.html#_chromatic-dragon-w hite

Special Attacks breath weapon (30-ft. cone, DC 16, 6d4 cold)


The young dragon has a cone of 30ft. The adult dragon has a cone of 40ft. Does young adult have a cone of 30ft, 40ft, or even 35ft? And how do you know when the breath weapon gets bigger?


Nevermind. Found it. It's a 40ft cone


It should be listed in the same table that shows the damage for the dragons various natural attacks. ITs based on the size of the dragon.

At least, that is where it appears here. Scroll down to Combat.

Scarab Sages

The stat blocks marked out are giving you basically markers for what you should look like at that point. For the in-between age categories, you just add in the information from the Dragon Age Categories, Dragon Ability Scores, Dragon Attacks and Speeds, and the Special abilities tables.

So to get from a Young White Dragon to a Young adult White Dragon, you'd take the Young dragon and add in Fog Cloud, Gust of Wind, Spell Resistance, and DR 5/magic from the special abilities table; increase him one size category, give him 4 more hit die, increase his natural armor by 6, and increase his breath cone to 10d4 based on the Dragon age Categories table; increase his STR by 4, decrease his DEX by 2, increase his CON by 2, and increase INT, WIS, and CHA by 2 according to the Dragon Ability Scores Table; then update his attacks as appropriate to his new size based on the Dragon Attacks and Speeds table.


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