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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons	-	Dragon magazine	-	Dragon #146

FREQUENCY: Very rare
NO. APPEARING: 1-6
ARMOR CLASS: 3
MOVE: 9"/12" (MC: C)
HIT DICE: 3 +6
% IN LAIR: 55%
TREASURE TYPE: Incidental
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3 bites
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-6/1-6/1-6
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Breath weapon, shocking
bite
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Immune to sleep and
electrical attacks
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard
INTELLIGENCE: Low
ALIGNMENT: Lawful evil
SIZE: S (4? long)
PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil
CHANCE OF:
Speaking: 10%
Magic Use: Nil
Sleeping: 40%
LEVEL/XP VALUE: IV/175 + 4 per hit
point

A draken resembles a small, threeheaded
blue dragon in appearance, except
that its coloration is much darker (nearly
Prussian blue) and its wings and eyes are
tinged cyan. The draken is a dragonet,
cousin to both the firedrake and ice lizard,
and distantly related to blue dragons in
the same way that firedrakes and ice
lizards are to red and white dragons. It
inhabits the vast Calim Desert of Calimshan
(in the FORGOTTEN REALMS setting),
where it is renowned for its
irascibility.

Its primary attack form is a breath
weapon, which each head can use twice
daily; this is a bolt of lightning 1? wide and
60? long that delivers 2-16 hp damage (or
half that if a victim makes his saving
throw vs. breath weapons).

Drakens do not use their claws in combat,
but each head can bite in the same
round (and at the same or different targets).
If two bites are successful, a shocking
grasp effect does 4-11 hp damage to
the victim; if all three bite attacks hit, the
extra damage is 9-17 hp damage. The
draken may use any combination of bites
and breath weapons from its three heads
in a round; a breath need not be at the
same target as bite attacks. The draken is
immune to sleep spells and to all electrical
attacks. If it is sprayed with water, it cannot
generate its breath weapon for 2-5
rounds. It takes + 2 hp damage per hit die
of fire- or heat-based attacks.

Drakens lack the size and age categories
of their larger kin, growing to adulthood
within a year?s time after being hatched
(given sufficient food). They also lack the
larger dragons? sensory powers, fear aura,
and saving-throw bonuses?but they cannot
be subdued, either.