Planar Dragon, Rift

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.