This dark-scaled dragon has massive claws, and foul-smelling acid drips from its saber teeth.
Rift Dragon
CE dragon (chaotic, evil, extraplanar)
BASE STATISTICS
CR 8; Size Small; Hit Dice 10d12
Speed 60 ft., burrow 30 ft.
Natural Armor +8; Breath Weapon cone, 2d10 acid
Str 19, Dex 14, Con 17, Int 12, Wis 15, Cha 16
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Abyssal Juggernaut (Ex)
When a rift dragon uses its trample attack, it deals double damage to the first target in its path.
Bleed (Ex)
A rift dragon’s bite, claw, and trample attacks deal bleed damage equal to its age category number.
Corrosion (Su)
The dragon’s breath weapon deals full damage to inanimate objects and ignores the first 10 points of hardness.
Corrupt Fortitude (Ex)
A rift dragon is immune to acid, disease, nausea, poison, and stun.
Dissolution (Su)
When a creature fails its save against a rift dragon’s breath weapon, it becomes vulnerable to acid and lowers any damage reduction it has by 10 for 1 minute.
Flatten (Ex)
When a rift dragon uses its trample attack, it can end its movement in other creatures’ spaces, using its crush attack against those foes as a free action.
Foul Acid (Ex)
Any creature that takes damage from a rift dragon’s breath weapon is staggered for 1 round by the foul vapors if it failed the saving throw against the breath weapon.
This is a poison effect.
Obliterating Breath (Su)
Instead of a cone of acid, three times per day the dragon can breath a line of destructive force that affects each target as per disintegrate (CL 20th, Fortitude DC 36 partial).
Trample (Ex)
A rift dragon’s trample damage is equal to its bite.
Age Category | Special Abilities | Caster Level |
---|---|---|
Wyrmling | Corrupt fortitude | — |
Very young | Bleed, foul acid | — |
Young | Corrosion, trample | 1st |
Juvenile | Frightful presence, planar infusion | 3rd |
Young adult | DR 5/good, spell resistance | 5th |
Adult | Abyssal juggernaut | 7th |
Mature adult | DR 10/good | 9th |
Old | Dissolution | 11th |
Very old | DR 15/good | 13th |
Ancient | Flatten | 15th |
Wyrm | DR 20/good | 17th |
Great wyrm | Obliterating breath | 19th |
ECOLOGY
Environment any (Abyss)
Organization solitary
Treasure triple
Wherever they go, rift dragons leave behind shattered ruins.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 6 © 2017, Paizo Inc.; Authors: Robert Brookes, Benjamin Bruck, John Compton, Paris Crenshaw, Adam Daigle, Crystal Frasier, James Jacobs, Thurston Hillman, Tim Hitchcock, Brandon Hodge, Jason Keeley, Isabelle Lee, Jason Nelson, Tim Nightengale, F. Wesley Schneider, David Schwartz, Mark Seifter, Todd Stewart, Josh Vogt, and Linda Zayas-Palmer.