Dragon Hearts

An old favorite back in first edition days was our house rule that whoever ate the heart of a dragon had to make a saving throw vs death and if successful was immune to that type dragon's breath weapon. Invariably the characters who got carried away with that sort of thing died eating his fifth or sixth dragon heart, but they had fun while it lasted.
So for 3.5 have the eater of an adult dragons heart make a DC 20 Fortitude save, failure results in death but if successful...

Eating a dragon's heart (roll 1d10)

1-7 dragon
8-9 stat adjustment
10 odd

  • Dragon (roll 1d10)
    1 Thick scales replace skin     (+5 to natural AC, -2 to charisma, -10 to base speed)
    2 Grows dragon wings, each equal to the characters height in length (when unarmored and not encumbered can fly(poor) at base speed equal to double his land speed)
    3-8 DR 10 versus the breath weapon type of energy
    9 Dragon mind     (understands the draconic language, immune to sleep and paralysis)
    10 Dragon eyes (sees x4 as well as human in lowlight, x2 in normal and 120 ft darkvision, -2 to charisma)

  • Stat adjustment (roll 1d10)
    1 +4 to strength
    2 +2 to strength
    3 -2 to strength
    4 +4 to constitution
    5 +2 to constitution
    6 -2 to constitution
    7 +4 to charisma
    8 +2 to charisma
    9 -2 to charisma
    10 +2 to wisdom

  • Odd (roll 1d10)
    1 add 1d6 ft to height
    2 double weight (-4 to dex, +2 to con)
    3 tongue becomes forked (+10 to all bluff checks)
    4 webbed fingers and toes (+10 to all swim checks)
    5 skin turns the color of dragon
    6 clawed fingers and toes (+5 to climb)
    7 legs and lower torso become a 7 ft serpents tail (base speed is halved on land, doubled swimming)
    8 trog stench (when angry or excited DC 13 fort save within 30 ft or nausea and lose 1d6 str for 10 rounds)
    9 huge cat eyes (triple normal size, blind in sunlight, low light vision is x4, -2 charisma)
    10 mutate into a lizard folk

    Ok so you've checked out the charts, is it too random for you? Just use the dragon chart or maybe eating a dragons heart just attracts 1d20 large flies, its all good.

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