Even their blood evaporates quickly when they are killed.When the energy blast hits the ground, it explodes and creates a giant geyser-like blast of energy that blasts the opponent up in the air, inflicting massive damage and capable of causing massive collateral damage to the surrounding area. No wizard or alchemist has ever reported salvaging anything useful from a geyser dragon's corpse. Wild and willful hunters, geyser dragons take what they can from the food chain, while often falling prey to larger predators. Geyser dragons can communicate via empathy with their companions but have no additional telepathic abilities. This means that a geyser dragon's companion is usually as boastfully arrogant as the dragonet itself. Geyser dragons, believing themselves far mightier than they are, attach themselves only to human companions they perceive to be equally powerful. Geyser dragons have gills and nostrils, and can breathe air or water with equal ease. Fortunately for them, they breed quickly and often, and they have few predators in their underground environment. Overconfident in the extreme, a single geyser dragon does not hesitate to attack animals much larger than itself these dragonets have an unusually high mortality rate as a result, though their natural lifespans are 21–32 years. Occasionally a hunting geyser dragon finds its way into a bath house or other human structure built around a hot spring. During the day, they swim in the boiling water, chasing steam bubbles, and come to the surface to hunt animal prey. Several dragonets share a nest - generally a small cavern barely large enough for their coiled bodies - sleeping and mating at night.
Geyser dragons live in springs warmed by magma. fire-based attacks and cannot suffer more than half damage from such attacks, even if a saving throw fails. Fire does affect them, but they gain a +4 bonus to saving throws vs. Geyser dragons are immune to heat-based attacks. breath weapon or suffer 1d2 points of damage. A character making a successful attack on the dragonet with a slashing or piercing melee weapon must make a successful saving throw vs. Like firedrakes, geyser dragons have hot and highly pressurized blood that erupts in a jet of boiling liquid and steam when the dragonet is struck by a sharp weapon. A 2-HD dragonet causes 2d8 points of damage, while a 3-HD specimen causes 2d12 points of damage. A 1-HD geyser dragon causes 2d6 points of damage (half with a successful saving throw vs. The damage inflicted by this water and steam depends on the size of the dragonet. Three times a day, a geyser dragon can project a jet of boiling water from its mouth, forming a cone 50' long and 10' in diameter at the far end. More fearsome than their claws and teeth, though, is their breath weapon. Suffering from delusions of true dragonhood, geyser dragons throw themselves into battle, biting and raking with their tiny claws. Their scales are greenish blue flecked with silver.
Water vapor billows around their hot bodies as they move. Long fins trail out from behind their shoulders and hips, and they move with the fluidity of a swimming eel, even while flying or scurrying along the ground. Their bodies are long and serpentine, and their legs are very short. Dragon Magazine Issue #272 Geyser dragons are tiny, wingless dragonets that dwell (as their name suggests) in regions of geysers and hot springs.
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