Brown dragon

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**Brown dragons**, also known as **sand dragons** or **great desert dragons**, were ferocious dragons that lived under the desert sands.

## Physical description

They had sand colored scales, though unlike other types of dragon their scales were leathery. They had small webbed claws and very large, long mouths. Unlike most other types of dragons, they were wingless. To make up for this, they are the most adept diggers, speeding under loose sand very fast.

## Combat

Brown dragons preferred ambushes to straightforward fighting, often they buried themselves in the sand and waited for prey. They attacked with great fury.

### Breath weapon

A brown dragon's breath weapon was a line of acid, which reduced most animals to little more than sand and dust.

## Ecology

### Lair

A brown dragon typically lived in a large cave or underground chamber, deep under the desert sand.

### Diet

A brown dragon's diet consisted of minerals, mostly sand, but they loved horseflesh.

## Known brown dragons

* Altagos
* Draconis
* Vulpomyscan

## Appendix

### Appearances

Adventures

* *Dungeon* #40: "Khamsa's Folly"

Video Games
* *Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal*

### References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 James Wyatt and Rob Heinsoo (February 2001). *Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn*. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. {{#regex:38–39|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}. ISBN 0-7869-1832-2.
2. ↑ Richard Baker and James Wyatt (2004-03-13). Monster Update (Zipped PDF). Wizards of the Coast. p. 3. Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved on 2018-09-10.
3. ↑ Scott Bennie (1990). *Old Empires*. (TSR, Inc), p. 89. ISBN 0-8803-8821-8.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 James Wyatt and Rob Heinsoo (February 2001). *Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn*. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 39. ISBN 0-7869-1832-2.
5. ↑ Eric L. Boyd, Eytan Bernstein (August 2006). *Dragons of Faerûn*. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 145. ISBN 0-7869-3923-0.
6. ↑ BioWare (June 2001). Designed by Kevin Martens. *Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal*. Black Isle Studios.
7. ↑ Eric L. Boyd (1997). *Powers and Pantheons*. (TSR, Inc), p. 145. ISBN 0-7869-0657-X.

### Connections

Dragonkind
The Family of Dragons

True dragons**Metallic dragons:** Gold • Silver • Bronze • Copper • Brass • Iron • Mercury • Platinum • Steel
**Chromatic dragons:** Red • Black • Blue • Green • White • **Brown** • Gray • Purple • Yellow
**Gem dragons:** Amethyst • Emerald • Sapphire • Topaz • Crystal • Obsidian
**Lung dragons**: Chiang lung • Li lung • Lung wang • Pan lung • Shen lung • T'ien lung • Tun mi lung • Yu lung
**Planar dragons**: Astral • Battle • Chaos • Ethereal • Faerie • Howling • Mirage • Oceanus • Pyroclastic • Radiant • Rust • Shadow • Styx • Tarterian
**Miscellaneous dragons:** Air • Ascendant • Brainstealer • Dzalmus • Force • Mist • Prismatic • Radiant • Rattelyr • Song • Vishap

**Lesser dragons**Dragon turtle • Hellfire wyrm • Pseudodragon • Rock wyrm • Scalamagdrion • Sea wyrm • Sunwyrm • Wyvern
**Drakes:** Guard • Portal • Smoke • Vulture

**Related creatures**Abishai • Dracon • Dracosphinx • Dragonborn • Dragonkin
**Dragonbloods:** Draconic creature • Dragonborn of Bahamut • Dragonspawn • Dragonwrought kobold • Drow-dragon (shadow) • Drow-dragon (deep) • Half-dragon • Kobold • Urd • Zar'ithra • Zekyl
**Undead dragons:** Dracolich • Vampiric