Tome Dragon
d8 HD| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special |
| 1st | +0 | +2 | +0 | +2 | Dragon Body, Alternate Form, Mutable Breath, Lore, +1 Int |
| 2nd | +1 | +3 | +0 | +3 | Keen Senses, Book Blood |
| 3rd | +2 | +3 | +1 | +3 | Blindsense 60 foot, Distant Speech, +1 Wis |
| 4th | +3 | +4 | +1 | +4 | Wings, Wise Arcana |
| 5th | +3 | +4 | +1 | +4 | Lesser Tome Casting |
| 6th | +4 | +5 | +2 | +5 | Free Metamagic, +1 Wis |
| 7th | +5 | +5 | +2 | +5 | Advanced Tome Casting |
| 8th | +6 | +6 | +2 | +6 | Knowledge Domain, Well Read |
| 9th | +6 | +6 | +3 | +6 | Cunning Combatant, +1 Int |
| 10th | +7 | +7 | +3 | +7 | Lorewyrm, Adept Tome Casting, +1 Wis |
| 11th | +8 | +7 | +3 | +7 | Master of Knowledge |
| 12th | +9 | +8 | +4 | +8 | Magic of Foresight, Arcane Skin, +1 Int |
| 13th | +9 | +8 | +4 | +8 | Iron Scales, Intellectual Higher Ground, +1 Int, +1 Wis |
| 14th | +10 | +9 | +4 | +9 | Greater Tome Casting, Growth |
| 15th | +11 | +9 | +5 | +9 | Logical Deduction, +1 Int, +1 Wis |
| 16th | +12 | +10 | +5 | +10 | Dragon Scrolls, +1 Int |
| 17th | +12 | +10 | +5 | +10 | Supreme Tome Casting, +1 Int, +1 Wis |
| 18th | +13 | +11 | +6 | +11 | Careful Read, +1 Int |
| 19th | +14 | +11 | +6 | +11 | Greater Magic of Foresight, +1 Int, +1 Wis |
| 20th | +15 | +12 | +6 | +12 | Flawless Foreknowledge, +1 Int, +1 Wis |
4 Skill points+int per level, quadruple at 1st level. Class skills: Concentration, Climb, Diplomacy, Disguise, Heal, Hide, Spot, Listen, Move Silently, Bluff, Intimidate, Knowledge(any), Search, Spellcraft, Swim.
Proficiencies: Its own natural weapons.
Dragon Body: At 1st level of this class the Tome Dragon loses all racial bonus and gains dragon traits(60ft Darkvision, low light vision, and immunity to sleep and paralysis). It is a Medium Dragon, 2 claws doing 1d6 + 1/2 Str modifier, a bite doing 1d8 + Str modifier damage and a base speed of 40 foot. The claws are capable of fine manipulation.
The Tome dragon also has a natural armor bonus equal to half his Con modifier. The Tome Dragon also gains an insight bonus to AC equal to the lower of 1/3 its HD or its Wis modifier, minimum 1.
Alternate Form (Su): A Tome dragon can assume any animal or humanoid form of Medium size or smaller as a standard action 1/day for each HD it has. The dragon can remain in its animal or humanoid form until it chooses to assume a new one or return to its natural form.
Mutable Breath: At first level, the Tome Dragon gains a breath weapon that deals 1d4 damage/HD of one of the following types: Acid, Cold, Electricity, Fire, or Sonic. This breath weapon deals a burst of damage with a radius of 5’ per 3 HD the dragon has (minimum 5’, range as a spell with large range at a caster level equal to the dragon’s HD). A reflex save halves this damage (DC is 10+1/2 HD+Con mod). You can change the damage type every time you use it.
Lore: As the bardic knowledge class feature, using Tome Dragon levels.
Ability increase: The tome dragon gains the following permanent ability bonuses at the following levels:
| Level | Bonus |
| 1st | +1 Int |
| 3rd | +1 Wis |
| 6th | +1 Wis |
| 9th | +1 Int |
| 10th | +1 Wis |
| 12th | +1 Int |
| 13th | +1 Int, +1 Wis |
| 15th | +1 Int, +1 Wis |
| 16th | +1 Int |
| 17th | +1 Int, +1 Wis |
| 18th | +1 Int |
| 19th | +1 Int, +1 Wis |
| 20th | +1 Int, +1 Wis |
So at 20 level it has +10 Int, +8 Wis.
Keen senses: The Tome Dragon sees four times as well as a human in shadowy illumination and twice as well in normal light. It also has darkvision out to 120 feet.
Book Blood:A Tome dragon receives spells known and spells per day as a Wizard of 3/4 of his level, but he has CL equal to his HD. If he multiclasses as a Wizard, the casting stacks.
| Dragon level | Wizard casting |
| 1 | - |
| 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 |
| 6 | 4 |
| 7 | 5 |
| 8 | 6 |
| 9 | 6 |
| 10 | 7 |
| 11 | 8 |
| 12 | 9 |
| 13 | 9 |
| 14 | 10 |
| 15 | 11 |
| 16 | 12 |
| 17 | 12 |
| 18 | 13 |
| 19 | 14 |
| 20 | 15 |
If a tome dragon takes a casting prc, it may choose to advance his casting as that of a wizard. So a dragon 10/loremaster 10 would cast as a 17th level wizard.
Unlike a normal wizard, the tome dragon needs to hold the spellbook from which he prepared his magic that day to cast a spell as an additional material focus. He can attach the spellbook to its scales to satisfy this ability, but then anyone can pull it off with a sucessful melee touch attack and winning a Str check against the tome dragon.
Blindsense: as the normal ability, range 60 ft.
Distant Speech: At 3rd level the Tome Dragon can communicate telepathically with any creature within 20’. The range of its telepathy increases by 10’ for each odd-numbered HD after 3 the tome dragon achieves.
Wings: At 4th level the Tome Dragon can fly at a speed of 10 ft/HD with good maneuverability. Wings can be used to attack, doing 1d4 + Str damage.
Wise Arcana:At 4th level, the Tome Dragon may choose a number of spells on his spellbook equal to his Wis modifier. He can now cast those spells whitout needing the spellbook as an additional material focus. He may change those chosen spells every time he levels up.
Tome Casting: Starting at 5th level, a Tome dragon can use some spells as spell-like abilities with a caster level to its HD and DCs being 10+1/2 HD+Wis mod, a certain number of times per day.
Lesser: at 5th level, a Tome dragon can use the spell
Arcane Sight 1/day per HD.
Advanced: at 7th level, a Tome dragon gains the ability to use the spell
Clairaudience/Clairvoyance as a spell-like ability 1/day per 3 HD.
Adept: at 10th level, a Tome dragon gains the ability to use the spell
True Seeing as a spell-like ability 1/day per 3 HD.
Greater: at 14th level, you gain the ability to use the spell
Plane Shift as a spell-like ability 1/day per 5 HD.
Supreme: at 17th level, you gain the ability to use the spell
Hindsight as a spell-like ability 1/day per 5 HD.
Free Metamagic: At 6th level, a Tome Dragon can subtract 1 from the level adjustment of any spell it casts using a metamagic feat. This ability applies once per spell and cannot reduce the level adjustment of the spell below 0.
At 12th level, a Tome Dragon can subtract 2 from the level adjustment of any spell it casts using a metamagic feat, subject to the same restrictions as before.
At 18th level, a Tome Dragon can subtract 3 from the level adjustment of any spell it casts using a metamagic feat, subject to the same restrictions as before.
Well-Read: Tome Dragons don’t just like knowledge – they’re obsessed with it in all its forms. At 8th level, Tome Dragons get a bonus to all knowledge checks equal to ½ their HD. In addition, at 8th level and every 3 levels thereafter, Tome Dragons learn a number of new languages equal to their Wisdom modifier. After all, if you can’t read a book or understand a tale, you can’t learn from it.
Domain: At level 8 Tome dragon can add the spells from the Knowledge Domain to his spellbook and ready them normally.
Cunning Combatant: At 9th level, Tome Dragons gain the ability to anticipate the actions of their foes in combat. When confronted with an enemy, a Tome Dragon may make a Knowledge check in the skill appropriate to identifying the enemy as a move action (Arcana for other dragons, Religion for undead, etc.) with a DC of 30. If that check succeeds, the Tome Dragon gains an insight bonus equal to half its Wisdom modifier (round down, maximum of its HD) to its AC, Touch AC, saving throws, and opposed checks against that enemy. This check cannot be re-rolled, and it applies to all creatures of the same species (so a Tome Dragon that made its Knowledge
(Arcana) check when faced with two wyrmling red dragons, one juvenile red dragon, and an ancient black dragon, could choose to gain this bonus against all three red dragons or against the black dragon, but not all the dragons facing it).
For every 10 points that the result of this check exceeds 30, the insight bonus increases by 1, up to a maximum of the Tome Dragon’s HD.
Talent for Sight: At 9th level, a Tome Dragon casts divination spells with a casting time measured in minutes, hours, days, or larger time intervals with amazing alacrity. The casting time of those divination spells is reduced by 10% per 5 HD (to a minimum of 10% of the normal casting time or one full round, whichever is longer).
Lorewyrm: At 10th level, Tome Dragons are no longer simply well-read or knowledge-obsessed – they have started to become a true incarnation of knowledge. They may read a number of mundane books, librams, or tomes equal to their Wisdom modifier each day, gaining a general understanding of the knowledge or stories contained within. Alternatively, a Tome Dragon may read one mundane book, libram, or tome per day and recall the information contained within with perfect accuracy for a number of days equal to its intelligence modifier; thereafter, the Tome Dragon simply recalls the contents as a casual reader would.
This ability does not allow a Tome Dragon to memorize, prepare, or copy the spells from a scroll or spellbook, nor does it affect magical texts such as a tome of understanding.
Master of Knowledge: At 11th level, a Tome Dragon gains a +2 bonus to its caster level when using divination spells or spell-like abilities.
Magic of Foresight: At 12th level, a Tome Dragon adds a divination spell from any spell list of a level it can cast to its spellbook.
Arcane Skin: At 12th level, a Tome Dragon gains SR equal to 11 + its HD.
Iron Scales: At 13th level, a Tome Dragon gains DR/magic equal to half its HD.
Intellectual Higher Ground:Mind may rule over body, but a big body doesn't hurt either. At 13th level a Tome Dragon gains +1 to CL on his spells for each size category his targets are smaller than the the tome dragon. This only boosts spells that specifically target creatures, not area spells or orbs or similar.
Growth: At 14th level the Tome dragon grows one size category. In addition, a Tome Dragon gains a Tail Slap attack dealing 1d8 damage.
Logical Deduction: Older Tome Dragons make Sherlock Holmes and Spock look positively illogical and short-sighted. A Tome Dragon of 15th level or higher is never surprised and may always take a standard action during a surprise round unless physically restrained (and even then, it can take mental actions). Further, Tome Dragons of at least 15th level gain both Uncanny Dodge and Improved Uncanny Dodge, using their levels in Tome Dragon as their rogue level.
Dragon Scrolls: At 16th level the tome dragon may craft spell scrolls whitout paying exp for the crafting(but must still pay exp if the scroll spell demanded it), at the speed of 10 min per spell level, but if anyone else tries to use them, they incur a 20% failure chance that can't be prevented by any means, even Use Magic Device. In addition if the Tome Dragon casts from a scroll, he may choose to make its CL=HD and the DC become 10+1/2 HD+Wis mod. Extra gold costs for expensive components are still paid in full.
Careful Read:For a tome dragon any form of writing is a precious thing to treat with care, and eventually they become able to use a scroll whitout draining it of its power. At 18th level when using a magic scroll, there's a 75% chance the spell isn't consumed. If the spell replicated by the scroll had an expensive exp and/or gold component, then the chance it isn't consumed is reduced to 25%.
Greater Magic of Foresight: At 19th level, a Tome Dragon may add another divination spell from any spell list of a level it can cast to its spellbook.
Flawless Foreknowledge: At 20th level, a Tome Dragon’s knowledge transcends time and space, allowing it to choose the most favorable path. Each day, a Tome Dragon gains a number of Insight points equal to its Wisdom modifier. Spending an Insight point is a free action; a Tome Dragon may not spend more than one Insight point per round. By spending one of these points, the Tome Dragon may reroll any attack, saving throw, ability check, or skill check. Alternatively, the Tome Dragon may spend an Insight point to gain an additional standard action during its turn.
So I picked this
one up, cleaned it up, added some new abilities to fill in the couple dead levels remaining, added image, and done!
The tome dragon is a squishier giant winged lizard with superior casting ability. Since Int already gives skill points and wizard casting is pretty good, I made the secondary abilities Wis-based (also since Solara had given him a considerable Wis boost). There's also a breath weapon for mook cleaning, but the tome dragon's main stick is wizard casting backed up by plenty of divination. And heck, I gave them a reason for them to want to be bigger than their enemies and all.
The two abilities I added are for some scroll love. I guess you could stitch several scrolls togheter for your personal grimoires/tomes and all.
So if you want to play a bookworm dragon, the Tome Dragon's for you!
