First off, you must name the dragon Toonces (John knows why) and just go with the ol' claw claw bite technique!!

Welcome to the site, Rifflo!

You could probably just go with a Pet, then stat the Dragon up as (possibly) even better than the hero.  One of my son's PCs had a pet Chimaera, and the other players constantly joked that it was Guthix (the pet) and his pet hero (Moonfang, the actual PC!)

Personally, I'd make the Dragon considerably tougher than the one in the back of the book, as just about all of those animals are too wimpy.  You'd want to (at the very least) give it Wings, and probably Armor and Natural Weaponry, plus probably Flame Powers (or whatever other breath weapon).

These are all great ideas!

Can people give me examples of stats, etc?

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Thanks so much for your help! This gives me some great ideas!

Charisma is definitely still there.  The only version of the game it's not is the (coming some day) 3rd Edition (not out yet), in which it will be replaced by a new stat called Cool.


I have a current PC who has the ability to pull a pet from another dimension (she gets one randomly, from a selection of six).  Last adventure (see "The Sands of Time", though I renamed it "River of Time") she ended up getting her Dragon, which was too big to go with the other PCs into the pyramid where they battled the bad guys.

Here's the stats we came up with for the Dragon:

Dragon
Level: 4                  Sex: Female
Weight: 15,000            Basic Hits: 300

Size Change: Larger; permanent; Height Factor=3, Weight Factor=27; 20’ tall, 13’ tail, 17’ wingspan.
Wings: Agility+3; Flies up to 157 M.P.H.; PR=1/hour.
Armor: Type A; ADR=100; Weight x 3.
Flame Powers: Fiery breath; action as defense (PR=0), attacks at PR=2, Range=108”, Damage=2d12.
Natural Weaponry: +3 to hit, +6 to damage with all HTH attacks (claws, teeth, tail, wings, horns, frill, or crushing body).
Heightened Senses: Darkvision to 24”, excellent sight; Detect Hidden, Danger x2; Perception +5.

S 19                        Basic HTH Damage: 5d10
E 17                        Healing Rate: 120
A 10                        Accuracy: -
I 14                        Damage: -
F 20                        Perception: 19

Hit Points: 951                  Movement Rates: 138” ground, 690” flying
Power: 60                  Detect Hidden: 20%      Detect Danger: 28%

Fiery Breath – 15 / 2d12
Claws/Teeth/Tail/Wings/Horns/Frill/Body – 8 / 5d10+6

The only problem with a Dragon Pet is that it's heavy (other than big), and such weight is gonna make him almost invincible (expecially with armor too), but it's cool to add from time to time fantasy elements, and what's important is that your master approves it/can handle it.
I'd think about something like giving your elf character a defense malus for being mounted (because after all he's much more exposed to ranged atks, or if an enemy can reach him, even melee hits)

In my setting (and my comic concept) dragons are created by an alien God that ruled the earth as every other mythological creature, then driven off from earth during Arthurian age and will come back on earth from space sooner or later.