Orange dragon
D orange dragon 
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| Difficulty | 20 |
| Attacks |
Breath 4d4 sleep (4d25), bite 3d8, claw 1d4, claw 1d4 |
| Base level | 15 |
| Base experience | 460 |
| Speed | 9 |
| Base AC | -1 |
| Base MR | 20 |
| Alignment | 5 (lawful) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 4500 |
| Nutritional value | 1500 |
| Size | Gigantic |
| Resistances | Sleep |
| Resistances conveyed |
Sleep resistance (100%) |
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A orange dragon:
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| Reference | monst.c#line1161 |
D baby orange dragon 
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| Difficulty | 13 |
| Attacks |
Bite 2d6 |
| Base level | 12 |
| Base experience | 200 |
| Speed | 9 |
| Base AC | 2 |
| Base MR | 10 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 1500 |
| Nutritional value | 500 |
| Size | Huge |
| Resistances | Sleep |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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A baby orange dragon:
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| Reference | monst.c#line1085 |
The orange dragon, D, is a monster that appears in NetHack. It has a younger form in the baby orange dragon, D. The orange dragon has sleep resistance both intrinsically and from its scales, and its breath weapon fires a ray of sleeping gas. Its corpse gives sleep resistance.
Generation
Players will not see baby orange dragons through normal random monster creation outside of the Oracle and Sokoban levels, and they can also be hatched from dragon eggs; adult orange dragons start appearing around the midway depths of the dungeon. Orange dragons can be generated in throne rooms as early as dungeon level 15, and may appear when a throne at this depth or lower is looted.[1] Orange dragons can be generated if a lawful spellcaster casts the summon nasties monster spell.
Orange dragons have a 1⁄3 of dropping a set of +0 uncursed orange dragon scales along with their corpse (1⁄20 if the dragon was revived).
Strategy
- See also: Dragon#Strategy
Orange dragons can be especially dangerous if you have not yet obtained sleep resistance - being hit by the breath attack can render you asleep for up to a maximum of 100 turns, but the dragon and any other monsters present may not need that long to tear into you. If you have sleep resistance and/or reflection, however, you have nothing to fear from the attack and can use whatever ranged options you have at your disposal to bring the beast down.
History
NetHack 2.3e introduces the white dragon along with all of the other modern dragon types and their breath weapons, except for silver.
NetHack 3.0.0 introduces baby white dragons alongside the other baby dragons. This version also distinguishes all color dragons, their younger stages and their corpses, and introduces dragon scale mail.
NetHack 3.1.0 introduces white dragon scales along with the other colors, as well as the current method of obtaining dragon scale mail.
Encyclopedia entry
In the West the dragon was the natural enemy of man. Although
preferring to live in bleak and desolate regions, whenever it
was seen among men it left in its wake a trail of destruction
and disease. Yet any attempt to slay this beast was a perilous
undertaking. For the dragon's assailant had to contend
not only with clouds of sulphurous fumes pouring from its fire
breathing nostrils, but also with the thrashings of its tail,
the most deadly part of its serpent-like body.
"One whom the dragons will speak with," he said, "that is a
dragonlord, or at least that is the center of the matter. It's
not a trick of mastering the dragons, as most people think.
Dragons have no masters. The question is always the same, with
a dragon: will he talk to you or will he eat you? If you can
count upon his doing the former, and not doing the latter, why
then you're a dragonlord."
