Fairy Dragon
- Armor Class
- 5 [14]
- Hit Dice
- 3
- Attacks
- Bite (1d2)
- Special
- euphoria breath, spellcasting (5th-level Magic-User or 6th-level Cleric), invisibility
- Move
- 9 Fly 36
- HDE/XP
- 4/120
Description
Fairy Dragons are dragonets with butterfly-like wings; their body color can vary through all of the colors of the common dragons. They are intelligent, speak their own language as well as the languages of the smaller fey creatures such as sprites and pixies, and can communicate with one another telepathically with a maximum range of 2 miles. They prefer peaceful forests but are as curious as cats and as unpredictable as pixies, and thus might be found anywhere.
Fairy dragons can become invisible at will, and remain invisible even while attacking. While they can inflict a painful bite, their preferred attack is their breath weapon, an invisible cloud of gas 2 feet in diameter that causes any living creature in the area of effect to become euphoric unless a saving throw is made. Euphoria lasts 1d4 turns, and while affected the creature wanders around aimlessly in a daze, unable to attack, cast spells, and suffering a -2 penalty to its armor class.
Besides these abilities, all fairy dragons cast spells; 60% of them are equivalent to 5th-level Magic-users, while the remaining 40% have the powers of 6th-level Clerics.
Fairy dragons prefer not to fight, and usually try not to cause harm to any creature. If attacked, however, they will fight to the best of their ability, calling in allies such as sprites or pixies if any live nearby.
Source note: This creature is converted from The Basic Fantasy Field Guide of Creatures Malevolent and Benign – Omnibus Edition, 1st Edition Release 4, © 2010–2025 Chris Gonnerman, R. Kevin Smoot, James Lemon, Matt Sluis, and Contributors. The Basic Fantasy Field Guide textual material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; this page adapts that creature to White Box.