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“I am Scale-Breaker.

Wyrm-Slayer. Teeth close about

me, and I do not bleed. I stand

in the fire, and do not burn.

I will die one day at the claws

of a dragon, but that day is not

this, and that wyrm is not you.

Turn, Beast, and face me.”

offers DMs a vast array of tricks and

tools to make their dragons more

challenging, more potent, more interesting,

and more exciting. But what about those

adventurers who must face said dragons? What

about those characters who, like the heroes of

myth, have devoted themselves to combating

or studying these deadly and fierce creatures?

This article has your answers. Presented

here are new paragon paths for each of the

classes from the Player’s Handbook . These paths

are designed specifically for dragon-focused

characters, be they dragon slayers or dragon

servants (though some are more thematically

suited to one or the other). Mechanically, they

follow all the standard paragon path rules

from the Player’s Handbook .

So have at, and good luck. Even with these

new options, you’re going to need it.

D RAGON S LAYERS by Ari Marmell

illustrations by Jason A. Engle and John Stanko

November 2008 | Dragon 369

T he Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons

DRAGON SLAYERS

CLERIC: SCOURGE OF IO

Prerequisite: Cleric

Draconic anathema (11th level): You

gain a new special power you can use with your

Channel Divinity class feature, allowing you power

over dragons similar to that which other clerics

have over undead. You are still limited to one use

of Channel Divinity per encounter.

Wyrm-Bane (16th level): Dragons take a –2

penalty to saving throws against conditions that

you create.

Many of the gods harbor a special hatred for dragons,

or at least those dragons who do not share their align-

ment and worldview. They have not forgotten Io’s

arrogance, his refusal to work alongside them in their

battle against the Primordials. As such, when a cleric

devotes herself to battling these monstrous creatures,

many of the gods have provided ceremonies and rites

to imbue that cleric with extra powers. When you use

your Scourge of Io powers, your eyes brief ly take on

slitted pupils and a gleam of inner power.

SCOURGE OF IO PRAYERS

Wrath upon Dragons Scourge of Io Attack 11

A blast of pure force erupts from you in all directions,

ravaging your foes.

Encounter ✦ Divine, Force, Implement

Standard Action Close burst 5

Target: Each enemy in burst

Attack: Wisdom vs. Will

Hit: 1d12 + Wisdom modifier force damage, and the

target takes a –2 penalty to attack rolls until the end

of your next turn. If the target is a dragon, it is instead

dazed and takes a –4 penalty to attack rolls until the

end of your next turn.

Miss: Half damage. If target is a dragon, it also takes

a –4 penalty to attack rolls until the end of your

next turn.

Channel Divinity: Draconic Anathema Cleric Class Feature

You channel the wrath of your god through your holy

symbol, striking the foul wyrm with divine power.

Encounter ✦ Divine, Implement, Radiant

Standard Action Close burst 5

Target: Each creature with the dragon keyword in burst

Attack: Wisdom vs. Will

Hit: 2d10 + Wisdom modifier radiant damage, and the

target is immobilized until the end of your next turn.

Increase the damage to 3d10 at 21st level.

Miss: Half damage.

Effect: Each ally in the burst gains resist 10 to one of

the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning,

necrotic, poison, or thunder. This resist lasts until the

end of your next turn.

Increase the resistance to 15 at 21st level.

SCOURGE OF IO PATH FEATURES

Dragon-Slayer’s action (11th level): You can

spend an action point to reroll an attack roll against a

dragon, or to end a condition currently affecting you

that originated from a dragon, and that a save can

end. Using this feature replaces the normal action

point benefit of taking an extra action.

Primal Bottle Scourge of Io Utility 12

Even as the dragon’s flames dance around you, you raise

your holy symbol and command them to fall back.

Daily ✦ Divine

Immediate Interrupt Personal

Trigger: A creature makes a close attack that

includes you

Effect: You gain a +5 power bonus to all defenses

against close attacks until the end of your next turn.

You take no damage if the attack misses.

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DRAGON SLAYERS

Fire with Fire Scourge of Io Attack 20

As though stealing power from the dragon itself, you

breathe a blast of destructive energy and take to the air,

sprouting great draconic wings.

Daily ✦ Divine, Implement; Acid, Cold, Fire,

Lightning, Poison, or Thunder

Standard Action Close blast 5

Target: Each creature in blast

Attack: Wisdom vs. Reflex

Hit: 3d10 + Wis modifier acid, cold, fire, lightning,

poison, or thunder damage.

Effect: You gain draconic wings that provide you with

fly 5 (hover) until the end of the encounter.

SCALE-BREAKER EXPLOITS

PALADIN: KNIGHT OF

THE UNYIELDING BASTION

Prerequisite: Paladin

Grounding Strike Scale-Breaker Attack 11

Your strikes ensure that your foe can’t escape into the skies.

Encounter ✦ Martial, Weapon

Standard Action

Melee weapon

As protectors of civilization and the innocents who

dwell therein, many paladins focus their efforts

against one particular type of threat, standing fast

even when all others run or fall. As a Knight of the

Unyielding Bastion, you have been trained in tactics,

techniques, and mystical prayers that augment your

abilities against dragons.

Target: One creature

Attack: Strength vs. Fortitude

Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage. You can also

deal +1[W], or the target cannot fly until the end of

your next turn. If the target is flying when it loses the

ability to fly, it falls.

FIGHTER: SCALE-BREAKER

Prerequisite: Fighter

Bear the Brunt Scale-Breaker Utility 12

You leap upon your ally, protecting him from the searing

acid that washes over your back.

Encounter

Immediate Interrupt Personal

Trigger: An adjacent ally is hit by a close or area attack

Effect: You are hit by the attack instead, and your ally is

unaffected by the attack.

KNIGHT OF THE UNYIELDING BASTION

PATH FEATURES

Dragon’s Challenge (11th level): When you

use divine challenge to mark a dragon, it takes a –4

penalty to any attack that does not include you as a

target, instead of –2. When a dragon takes damage

from your divine challenge, it takes additional

damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Dragon-Slayer’s action (11th level): You can

spend an action point to reroll an attack roll against

a dragon, or to end a condition currently affecting

you that originated from a dragon, and that a save can

end. Using this feature replaces the normal action

point benefit of taking an extra action.

Partake of My Strength (16th level): You

can use your lay on hands power on an ally as an

immediate interrupt when you and an ally are both

targeted by a close or area attack.

The lone warrior raising sword and shield against a

fearsome wyrm is one of the most iconic images of

dragon-slaying. You have trained long and hard to

serve as that warrior, though with the intent of facing

dragons alongside allies, not alone. Your martial

tactics and techniques are such that even the

deadliest dragons would do well to fear you.

Scale-Shattering Strike Scale-Breaker Attack 20

With a mighty shout, you deliver a blow that sends cracks

running through the dragon’s scales, as though they were

little more than glass.

Daily ✦ Martial, Reliable, Weapon

Standard Action

SCALE-BREAKER PATH FEATURES

guardian ally (11th level): Each ally adjacent to

you gains a +2 shield bonus to Ref lex defense against

close and area attacks while you wield a shield.

Dragon-Slayer’s action (11th level): You can

spend an action point to reroll an attack roll against a

dragon, or to end a condition currently affecting you

that originated from a dragon, and that a save can

end. Using this feature replaces the normal action

point benefit of taking an extra action.

Dragon Hammer (16th level): When you hit

an enemy, that enemy takes a –1 penalty to Fortitude

defense until the end of your next turn. If that enemy

is a dragon, it also takes a –1 penalty to AC until the

end of your next turn.

Melee weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Strength vs. Fortitude

Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage. The target

takes a –4 penalty to AC and gains vulnerable 5 all

(save ends both).

Aftereffect: If the target is a dragon, it takes a –4

penalty to AC and gains vulnerable 5 all until the

end of its next turn.

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DRAGON SLAYERS

KNIGHT OF THE UNYIELDING

BASTION PRAYERS

Beast-Punishing Strike

Attack 20

Knight of the Unyielding Bastion

Your weapon not only crushes bone and parts flesh,

but delivers a tiny seed of energy that takes root within

your enemy’s soul.

Daily ✦ Divine, Weapon

Standard Action

Divine Deflection

Attack 11

Knight of the Unyielding Bastion

Your sword disrupts the dragon’s breath, sending it

everywhere but at your friends.

Encounter ✦ Divine, Radiant

Immediate Interrupt Melee weapon

Trigger: An enemy within reach makes a close attack

that includes at least one ally

Target: The triggering enemy

Attack: Strength vs. Reflex

Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage, and each ally

in the target’s close attack gains a power bonus to

all defenses against the attack equal to 2 + your

Wisdom modifier.

Melee weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Strength vs. AC

Hit: 4[W] + Strength modifier damage. The target

cannot recharge powers (save ends).

RANGER: WYRM-HUNTER

Prerequisite: Ranger

Dragons are among the most dangerous game, yet

some are courageous enough to hunt them. You might

do so to protect others from their depredations, you

might do so for payment, or you might simply enjoy

the thrill of hunting something so powerful. What-

ever your motivations, you have learned all you can

about stalking and killing these horrific beasts.

Dragon Flame Sacrifice

Utility 12

Knight of the Unyielding Bastion

You shield your ally from the searing flames of the

dragon’s breath.

Encounter ✦ Divine, Teleportation

Immediate Interrupt Close burst 5

Trigger: An ally within the burst is targeted by a close

burst attack that does not include you

Target: That ally

Effect: You and the target exchange spaces. You gain a

+2 power bonus to defenses against the attack.

WYRM-HUNTER PATH FEATURES

Dragon Stalker (11th level): When you deal

your Hunter’s Quarry damage to a dragon, you deal

an additional +2 damage for each die rolled.

In addition, you gain a +2 bonus on monster

knowledge checks regarding dragons and on

Perception checks to track dragons.

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DRAGON SLAYERS

Dragon-Slayer’s action (11th level): You can

spend an action point to reroll an attack roll against a

dragon, or to end a condition currently affecting you

that originated from a dragon, and that a save can

end. Using this feature replaces the normal action

point benefit of taking an extra action.

Draconic resolution (16th level): When a

dragon reduces an ally that you can see to 0 hit points

or fewer, you can spend a healing surge.

Deadly Aim Wyrm-Hunter Attack 20

The dragon shrieks in pain, unaware that this was merely

a ranging shot for a far deadlier attack to come.

Daily ✦ Martial, Weapon

Standard Action

HOARD RAIDER EXPLOITS

Melee or Range weapon

Dodging Strike Hoard Raider Attack 11

You strike quickly and keep moving to avoid the

dragon’s breath.

Encounter ✦ Martial, Weapon

Standard Action

Target: One creature

Attack: Strength vs. AC (melee) or Dexterity

vs. AC (ranged)

Hit: 3[W] + Strength modifier damage (melee) or

3[W] + Dexterity modifier (ranged). In addition, your

next attack that hits the target, if it occurs before the

end of your next turn, deals +3[W] damage.

Melee or Range weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Dexterity vs. Reflex

Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and you gain a

+4 power bonus to your Reflex defense until the end

of your next turn. If the target is a dragon, you deal an

additional +1[W] damage.

WYRM-HUNTER EXPLOITS

Grounding Attack Wyrm-Hunter Attack 11

Taking careful aim, you deliver a swift blow to the dragon’s

wing, sending the great beast crashing down.

Encounter ✦ Martial

Standard Action

ROGUE: HOARD RAIDER

Prerequisite: Rogue

Blinding Glare Hoard Raider Utility 12

You duck down into the dragon’s howling breath,

disappearing from sight.

Encounter ✦ Martial

Immediate Reaction Personal

Trigger: You are targeted by a close or area attack

Prerequisite: You must be trained in Stealth.

Effect: You become invisible to the attacking enemy

until the end of your next turn.

Melee or Range weapon

The world contains few sources of wealth greater than

a dragon’s hoard. While most consider it suicide to

target a hoard for theft, some rogues consider these

targets the ultimate challenge. You count yourself

among these thrillseekers, “liberating” gold and

magic items from the lairs of great dragons, and

possibly leaving a dead dragon in your wake as well.

Target: One creature

Attack: Strength vs. Fortitude (melee) or Dexterity

vs. AC (ranged)

Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage (melee) or

2[W] + Dexterity modifier (ranged). You can also deal

+1[W], or the target cannot fly until the end of your

next turn. If the target is flying when it loses the

ability to fly, it falls.

Killing Thrust Hoard Raider Attack 20

Your attack reveals your enemy’s weak point to

your friends.

Daily ✦ Martial, Weapon

Standard Action

HOARD RAIDER PATH FEATURES

gap in the armor (11th level): When you score

a critical hit against a creature you have combat

advantage against, you deal an additional 1d6

damage. If this creature is a dragon, you instead deal

an additional 2d6 damage.

Dragon-Slayer’s action (11th level): You can

spend an action point to reroll an attack roll against a

dragon, or to end a condition currently affecting you

that originated from a dragon, and that a save can

end. Using this feature replaces the normal action

point benefit of taking an extra action.

Flank the Beast: While you are f lanking an

enemy, you gain a +1 bonus to AC against that

creature’s attacks. If that enemy is a dragon, you

instead gain a +2 bonus to AC and Ref lex against that

creature’s attacks.

Into the Fire Wyrm-Hunter Utility 12

Even as the flames crackle around you, burning your flesh,

you take advantage of the distraction they provide to move

in on your foe.

Encounter

Immediate Reaction Personal

Trigger: An enemy targets you with a close or

area attack.

Effect: You shift a number of squares equal to

your speed.

Melee weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Dexterity vs. AC

Hit: 4[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the target

grants you combat advantage until you end your turn

in a square not adjacent to it. If the target is a dragon,

it also grants all your allies combat advantage for the

same duration.

Miss: Half damage and the target grants you combat

advantage until the end of your next turn. If the target

is a dragon, it grants you and all your allies combat

advantage until the end of your next turn.

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