Gold dragon
D gold dragon 
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| Difficulty | 20 |
| Attacks |
Breath 4d6 fire, Bite 3d8, Claw 1d4, Claw 1d4 |
| Base level | 15 |
| Base experience | 535 |
| Speed | 9 |
| Base AC | -1 |
| Base MR | 20 |
| Alignment | 4 (lawful) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 4500 |
| Nutritional value | 1500 |
| Size | Gigantic |
| Resistances | Fire resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | none |
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A gold dragon:
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The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.
Gold dragons (and the baby version) are added. This page describes their 3.7 properties, preemptively moving variant properties to the Variants section. The infobox used to reflect SporkHack stats, but now reflects vanilla (as of 2021 Jul 24).The gold dragon, D, is a monster that appears in NetHack. It has a younger form in the baby gold dragon, D. Similar to the red dragon, it is fire-breathing, fire resistant, and infravisible. However, its body and scales do not convey fire resistance; instead, gold dragon scales and gold dragon scale mail act as a light source.
Gold dragons themselves emit light, but only in a radius of 1, whereas their scales usually have a larger radius.
Variants
Gold dragons first appeared in SporkHack, and were later added to SpliceHack and EvilHack. In all of them, the scales and scale mail provide light when equipped. In EvilHack, they additionally confer fire resistance and clairvoyance.
SlashTHEM
SlashTHEM adds golden dragons. The scales and scale mail confers sickness resistance, along with emitting light of radius 2. Gold dragons and baby gold dragons naturally emit light of radius 3 and 2 respectively.
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.
[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]
"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."
[ The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin ]
See also
- Glowing dragon, a dragon added in UnNetHack whose scales also act as a light source
