FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Temperate Wilderness Mountains])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Tropical Wilderness Mountains])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Dungeon Level VII])

NO. APPEARING: 1-4
ARMOR CLASS: 3
MOVE: 9"
HIT DICE: 10
% IN LAIR: 50%
TREASURE TYPE: B, Q (x 10), S, T
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3 ~ 10
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-8/1-8/2-16
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Fire puff
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Immune to fire
INTELLIGENCE: Animal
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: L (30' long)
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: VII | 1350 + 14

SAVES: 8.9.10.9.11

These reptiles may be an ancestral dragon type or an offshoot
of a common ancestor. In any case these creatures resemble red dragons,
are sametimes called "false dragons," and the latter seem to avoid
confrontation with fire lizards. They are slow-moving creatures and often
(50%) sleep for long periods. They are found in subterranean lairs, coming
forth every fortnight or so to hunt. As shiny things attract them, fire lizards
collect metals and gems in their den. There is a 10% chance that the lair
will contain 1-4 eggs (market value 5,000 gold pieces each), but the fire
lizard does not otherwise care for its young which depart after hatching.

Fire puff: While the fire lizard usually attacks with a combination of two raking
claws and a bite, it can also breathe forth a puff of flame from its mouth, a
truncated cone 1/2" diameter at the mouth by 1" diameter, by 1 1/2" long,
which causes 2-12 hit points damage (1-6 if saving throw is made). Fire-
based attacks do not harm a fire lizard.

Fire lizards are typically a neutral gray in color, with mottlings of red
brown on the back and reddish undersides. Younger ones are lighter, old
(50 to 100 years) specimens are darker.

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