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Dragon Scale Mail D&D 2024

Revised for 2024 The D&D 2014 version differs. Read the D&D 2014 version.

Rarity
Very Rare
Attunement
Yes

Armor (Scale Mail), Very Rare (Requires Attunement)

Dragon Scale Mail is made of the scales of one kind of dragon. Sometimes dragons collect their cast-off scales and gift them. Other times, hunters carefully preserve the hide of a dead dragon. In either case, Dragon Scale Mail is highly valued.

While wearing this armor, you gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class, you have Advantage on saving throws against the breath weapons of Dragons, and you have Resistance to one damage type determined by the kind of dragon that provided the scales (see the accompanying table).

Additionally, you can focus your senses as a Magic action to discern the distance and direction to the closest dragon within 30 miles of yourself that is of the same type as the armor. This action can’t be used again until the next dawn.

DragonResistanceDragonResistance
BlackAcidGoldFire
BlueLightningGreenPoison
BrassFireRedFire
BronzeLightningSilverCold
CopperAcidWhiteCold

RollQuest summary +1 AC; Advantage on saving throws against the breath weapons of Dragons; Resistance to the damage type of the dragon whose scales made it. Magic action, once per dawn: sense the distance and direction to the nearest dragon of that kind within 30 miles.

SRD 5.2.1, pp.218–219 · CC BY 4.0

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