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Dream Dragons from bestiary five have a breath attack that puts creatures to sleep.
Sleeping Breath (Su) A limited number of times per day, a dream
dragon can cause those who fail their saving throws against
its breath attack to fall asleep for 1d4 rounds, as per the sleep
spell. This is a mind-affecting sleep effect.
The sleep spell only effects up to 4 HD worth of creatures. It seems awfully silly for a CR 19 ancient dragon to have a breath weapon that only effects 4 HD worth of creatures.
So my question is Is the Dream Dragon's breath weapon limited to 4 HD, as per the sleep spell?
Probably an oversight. Especially with that much lower duration.
I would say that they fall asleep as the spell i.e. the spell describes what sleeping means in games terms and what it takes to waken a sleeping person.
The breath weapon doesn't effect people with the sleep spell (which would mean subject to the limitations of that spell) but rather effects targets with sleep, which is like that of the sleep spell.
I remember a thread with a question to a similiar situation.
There is was cleared up that when referencing effects by way of "as the X spell" restrictions in the referenced spell do not get ported over. Only the restrictions in the original description apply.
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There is was cleared up that when referencing effects by way of "as the X spell" restrictions in the referenced spell do not get ported over. Only the restrictions in the original description apply.
Link?
As I have the opposite memory, that restrictions in the "as the X spell" being imported.
I too assume it is an oversight, but it does seem awfully unnecessary to include the line at all if the limit was not meant.
As a comparison the slumber hex has the line "This hex can affect a creature of any HD", to get around the HD limit.