Editing Draconomicon (section)

==3e Draconomicon==
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This version of the Draconomicon is broken up into 5 chapters and 2 appendixes. Like many 3e [[splatbook]]s, it's useful to both DMs and players.

Chapter 1 is '''All About Dragons''', and is an in-depth biology textbook-style examination of draconic physiology, their life cycle, psychology and society, both in general and focusing specifically on the [[Metallic Dragon]]s and [[Chromatic Dragon]]s. It includes an extended primer on the Draconic language and 3e religion writeups for the [[Dragon Gods]].

Chapter 2 is '''A DM's Guide to Dragons'''. This covers a variety of subtopics, including how to use dragons in your campaign, tips on running a dragon encounter, and a plethora of new mechanical goodies for dragon NPCs; feats, spells, magic items and [[Prestige Classes]], culminating in mechanics for Advanced Dragons. It contains the following PrCs:
* Bloodscaled Fury
* Disciple of Arshardalon
* Dispassionate Watcher of Chronepsis
* Dragon Ascendant
* Elemental Master
* Hidecarved Dragon
* Sacred Warder of [[Bahamut]]
* Unholy Ravager of [[Tiamat]]

Naturally, this means that Chapter 3 is '''The Player's Perspective'''; advice on battling dragons, new feats, new spells, new magic items. It includes the new [[Cleric Domain]]s Domination, Dragon, Glory, Greed and Wealth, and an assortment of new [[Prestige Classes]], detailed below. The final segment examines the various ways of including dragons in an adventuring party, examining their advantages & disadvantages before discussing them as mounts, cohorts, special mounts and familiars before touching upon them as player characters. Surprisingly, this book does ''not'' contain rules for using dragon races-as-classes; that kind of awesomeness was relegated to [[Dragon Magazine]], with issue #320 having rules for [[Metallic Dragon]]s and being followed up by rules for [[Chromatic Dragon]] PCs in issue #332.
* Dracolyte
* Dragonkith
* Dragonrider
* Dragonslayer
* Dragonsong Lyrist
* Dragonstalker
* Hoardstealer
* Initiate of the Draconic Mysteries
* Platinum Knight
* Talon of Tiamat

Chapter 4 is the inevitable '''New Monsters''' chapter, featuring the following new beasts:
* Abyssal Drake
* [[Dracolich]] template
* Draconic Creature temlate
* [[Dragonkin]] monster/PC race
* [[Dragonnel]]
* Elemental Drake (Air, Earth, Fire, Ice, Magma, Ooze, Smoke, Water)
* [[Faerie Dragon]]
* [[Fang Dragon]]
* Spiked Felldrake
* [[Ghost|Ghostly Dragon]] template
* [[Golem]] (Dragonbone, Drakestone, Ironwyrm)
* [[Half-Dragon]] (Half-Dragons for [[Oriental Dragon]]s, [[Gem Dragon]]s, and the [[Planar Dragon]]s introduced here)
* Hoard Scarab
* Landwyrm (Desert, Forest, Hill, Jungle, Mountain, Plains, [[Swamp]], Tundra, [[Underdark]])
* [[Planar Dragon]]s (Battle, Chaos, Ethereal, Howling, Oceanus, Pyroclastic, Radiant, Rust, Styx, Tarterian)
* [[Shadow Dragon]]
* Skeletal Dragon template
* Squamous Spewer
* Storm Drake
* [[Vampire|Vampiric Dragon]] template
* [[Zombie|Zombie Dragon]]

Chapter 5 is '''Sample Dragons''', and has a fully fleshed out and statted up series of dragons, consisting of one dragon from each of the age categories for each of the [[Chromatic Dragon]] and [[Metallic Dragon]] species.

Appendix 1 is '''The Dragon's Hoard''', which consists of assorted mechanics and rules to make it both easier to generate a dragon's hoard and to create more variety in the hoard's contents, as well as using it to generate plot hooks or setting development. It ends, of course, with some sample hoards.

Appendix 2 is an '''Index of Dragons''', which is exactly what its name suggests; a list of every single  dragon-typed monster, both "true" and "lesser", as well as an identification of where it hails from, listing both official splatbooks and 3e edition-centric issues of [[Dragon Magazine]] at the time of printing.