dragons immune to aging negetives

[willyryan]

wat causes the dragons to be immune to the negative aging effects is it the dragonblood subtype?

[Ashtagon]

It's the dragon age categories that do it.

[Inevitability]

Dragons don't actually have the dragonblood subtype, they're just considered to have it for the purpose of prerequisites.

[KillianHawkeye]

It's the dragon age categories that do it.

Yes, this. Dragons have their own special tables which detail the effects of their age progression, and it doesn't include the normal bonuses or penalties that other creatures get with the generic age categories.

[Malimar]

I thought that it applies to non-True Dragons, as an obscure trait of the Dragon type, but then I consulted Races of the Dragon and all it says is

Ability penalties due to age do not apply to dragonwrought kobolds.

So yes, it appears to be True Dragons and Dragonwrought Kobolds and nobody else.

[ExLibrisMortis]

True dragons are not immune to aging, there just aren't any negative aging effects for true dragons. They still die, if you age them enough.

[MesiDoomstalker]

It's the dragon age categories that do it.

Ya, Dragons are an oddity in a world of oddities in that senescence (the phenomenon where an organism degrades after a certain age to the point that it ceases to live, IE death by Old Age) just.... doesn't happen till stupidly late in their lifespan and when it does, it happens with such a insane speed that a normally healthy dragon just keels over.

[Mato]

So yes, it appears to be True Dragons and Dragonwrought Kobolds and nobody else.

The Phaerimm also directly advance as they get older just like true dragons. And technically all undead evolve as time goes on. Also about every high level druid or monk begs to differ.

Other creatures use much stranger forms of progression. Like a Barghest grows by eating corpses and demon/devils actually follow a promotion from dretch/lemure to balor/pitfiend but the rules are intentionally ambiguous how that works. Maybe they need to be traded, touched by a stone, or fed some candy.

[willyryan]

so even if I give a character the dragonblood subtype he will still get negatives when aging

[Inevitability]

so even if I give a character the dragonblood subtype he will still get negatives when aging

Yes he will.

[KillianHawkeye]

Other creatures use much stranger forms of progression. Like a Barghest grows by eating corpses and demon/devils actually follow a promotion from dretch/lemure to balor/pitfiend but the rules are intentionally ambiguous how that works. Maybe they need to be traded, touched by a stone, or fed some candy.

I award you one Internet.

Now I need to go figure out how to make "catching, training, and evolving extraplanar creatures" into a viable D&D campaign.

[willyryan]

Yes he will.

ok cool ty