Editing Dragonet (section)

==Geyser Dragon==
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'''Geyser Dragons''' are a wingless species of 2ft to 4ft long dragonet whose name comes from their preferred choice of terrain; geothermally active areas where there are an abundance of hot springs and geysers.

Geyser Dragons have a rather piscine appearance, well beyond their silver-flecked, greenish-blue colored scales. Short-legged and with flipper-like webbed feet, these dragonets have long, serpentine bodies. Shark-like fins form crests on their skulls, and a pair of long, slender fins trails out from behind both their shoulders and their hips, as if in imitation of the wings they lack. They move with an eel-like fluidity, and whilst they have no wings, they can still levitate, allowing them "swim" through water and air with great speed and agility. Hot water vapor constantly billows around their bodies as they move; like firedrakes, this dragonet species possesses pyrophoric blood, which in some manner helps insulate them against the superheated waters they live within.

Physically amphibious, possessing lungs and gills, geyser dragons are diurnal in nature, retreating to small cavern-nests to sleep and mate during the night and spending their days playing and hunting. Their affinity for hot springs and geysers sometimes leads them into bath houses and similar structures - and that's when trouble occurs.

Geyser dragons are assuredly the dumbest of the dragonets, suffering a racial case of delusions of dragonhood that gives them an extreme case of overconfidence. As such, geyser dragons will attack even the biggest opponent with savage fury, clawing and biting and spewing gouts of boiling hot water (which they can do thrice per day) with every sincerity in their belief that this can overpower their foe. Although their boiling blood does provide some formidable defenses, burning those who cut or pierce them and rendering them both immune to heat-based attacks and heavily resistant to fire attacks (+4 to saving throws, halve all damage taken), they bite off more than they can chew with startling regularity.

This means that relatively few geyser dragons live out their full 21-32 year lifespan, but they breed rapidly and have few, if any, natural predators (except maybe steam [[mephit]]s) and so the race survives.

Because they believe themselves mightier than they are, geyser dragons only respond to Find Familiar spells if they believe the [[wizard]] or [[Sorcerer (Dungeons & Dragons)|sorcerer]] calling to them is equally powerful. This means that the typical master of a geyser dragon is boastful and arrogant, although bullying is optional. They have only empathic communication abilities with such bonded allies, although their aggressive natures and boiling water [[Breath Weapon]] has its own advantages.