Fantasy question: Shadow Dragon?

[Matt²]

Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic :: Confrontation Time!

I'm unfamiliar with the concept of what I'm presuming is a Shadow Dragon? I found Google unhelpful this time, so I thought I'd ask some experts.

ALSO... YAFGC is an awesome comic, and it's creator does an awesome version of Doctor Who as well.

 

[FnordBear]

Shadow dragons live in the underdark of D&D worlds. They have darkness based powers and drain the life force of creatures.

Shadow dragon

• Breath weapon: Energy-draining shadows
• Terrain: Underground
• Alignment: Always Chaotic evil
• Image:
• Notes: Shadow dragons are the second most intelligent evil dragons.
• Appears in: Monster Manual II and reprinted on several other occasions; enemy in Baldur's Gate 2. A shadow dragon called Shimmergloom is the ruler of a clan of Duergar in the second book of the Icewind Dale Trilogy, "Streams of Silver".

 

[Dave]

Looks like it could very well be fro the way it's drawn and the breath weapon. But it's hard to tell from a sketch and no context.

Shadow Dragons - when played correctly - are fricking party killers. Especially since they can shadow meld into places the party can't reach. I had one whose lair was in an inaccessible chamber inside a mountain, with wards to dispel magic if anyone was stone-walking. He had only 1 or two weaknesses and that was getting air into the chamber. But he took care of that, too....

 

[Matt²]

hmm..
ok, so the Darkness Breath he roared drains life.. that makes more sense, and gives me a context of what happened.

loved today's counter Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic :: Shadow Flat