Adult Red Dragon

Huge Dragon, chaotic evil

AC19 (natural armor)HP256 (19d12 + 133)Speed40 ft., fly 80 ft., swim 20 ft., climb 40 ft., crawl 20 ft.

STR

27 (+8)

DEX

10 (+0)

CON

25 (+7)

INT

16 (+3)

WIS

13 (+1)

CHA

23 (+6)

Sensesdarkvision 120 ft., blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 23LanguagesCommon, DraconicCR17 (18,000 XP)

Traits

Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

Actions

Fire Breath. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 21, each creature in a 60-foot Cone. Failure: 59 (17d6) Fire damage. Success: Half damage.

Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting to cast Scorching Ray.

Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +14, reach 10 ft. 13 (1d10 + 8) Slashing damage plus 5 (2d4) Fire damage.

Spellcasting. The dragon casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 20, +12 to hit with spell attacks): - **At Will:** Command, Detect Magic, Scorching Ray - **1/Day Each:** Fireball

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Creature data from the System Reference Document 5.2, CC-BY-4.0. See licensing.