Dragon: Cave

Description:

Cave dragons are among the most common sorts of dragon. They are sometimes called stone dragons, mountain dragons, grey dragons, or even simply dragons, as most people are not even aware there are different species of dragon. Notably, dwarves sometimes refer to them as silver dragons - possibly because of their colouring, but more likely because they have a special lust for shiny things.

Cave dragons predictably tend to make their lairs in caves, where they are drawn to dig and tunnel through the rock, compulsively following ore veins. They will smash rubble and use their fiery breath to smelt ore in order to gather precious metals, which they collect and horde for unknown reasons. Cave dragon lairs lure foolhardy adventurers with the promise of millions worth of precious metals - either mined from the ground or hoarded as treasure from previous expeditions who imagined they could defeat such a creature.

Unlike other dragons, cave dragons cannot fly. Their giant, clawed hands - with tough, leathery webbing between long fingers and connecting to the elbow - are principally used for excavating and they can move a staggering amount of earth rock in short amount of time. Their stout bodies have thick, hard scales, and most ordinary weapons are hard pressed to penetrate them. They are grey in colouring, but since they spend much of their time digging in the dust, they often appear to be black. When free of dust and exposed to light, they have a silvery luster to them, and armour made from cave dragon scales is particularly beautiful and prized.

Special:

Cave dragons are immune to fire damage, and they also breathe fire.

 A cave dragon can expend a point of Resolve to spray a cone of flame over a 30 degree arc, to a range of 17 hexes. Anyone in the cone may attempt to dodge or block if they have a large shield. Those who fail to defend take 3d12+3 damage and are put in the burning state.