Brown Dragon Evil

Brown dragons revel in the comfort of sand-covered lairs filled with treasure they have filched from desert tombs. Browns also like exotic live food kidnapped from far lands.

To brown dragons, life is best lived by eating often and well. A black dragon might find satisfaction in a diet of swamp things and the occasional drowned adventurer, but a brown dragon's ultimate happiness comes with new tastes and spices. In the extreme, this can lead a brown dragon to take needless risks in the heat of combat, all for the chance to bite a species never before tasted.

Browns stand out for another reason apart from their love of food: they can exhale screaming, blinding sand that hits like a concentrated desert sandstorm.

Browns locate their lairs beneath the desert floor, in hollows of empty air supported by old ruins or in buried cave mouths. The various hues of their scales let them blend in with the sands of the desert.

The greatest difference between a brown dragon and other chromatics is the strange structure of its wings. Instead of normal dragon wings, a double crest of spines stretches from the head to the tip of the tail, each crest connected to the other by a membranous frill. The frill lets the dragon swim through sand and earth and, if need be, fly through the air.

Immunities and resistances

• Immune: its own breath weapon. Every chromatic dragon is immune to its own breath (the site's chromatic family text; the 1998 note predates brown). (dsl-mud.org Dragons of Algoron)

Dragonskin set bonus

Wearing the full set of crafted Brown dragonskin armor: Substantial protection against ordinary, non-magical blindness. Magical blindness still works normally.

change note 1150 (2026-08-13). No bonus has a published size; the notes say "occasionally", "a solid chance" and "a small chance". How sets work: dragonskin sets.

Alterform races

Human, Dark Elf, Ogre. The available races change by dragon type (Evil dragons here); the game's help alterform lists them per type, not per color. (game help alterform, updated 2026-11-01)

At a glance

Family

Chromatic Dragons (Evil)

Breath weapon

Blinding sand

Dragonskin resists

Fire

Immune to

its own breath weapon

Remort race

BrownDragon

Ages, vitality and the thrones are the same for every dragon (alterform races change by type): dragon basics.