Accursed Death. When the dragon dies, it exudes a cloud of sickening, accursed gas. Each creature within 10 ft. of the dragon must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. However, a creature that fails two of these saving throws becomes cursed. A creature cursed in this way takes 5 (2d4) necrotic damage and can’t regain hit points, and the creature’s hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken. Every 24 hours, the cursed creature takes 5 (2d4) necrotic damage with similar reduction to the creature’s hit point maximum. If the curse reduces the target’s hit point maximum to 0, the target dies.
Multiattack. The dragon makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage and 2 (1d4) necrotic damage.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) slashing damage and 1 poison damage.
Swarm Breath (Recharge 5–6). The dragon exhales a 15-foot cone of poisonous insects and vile gas. Each creature in that area must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw, taking 7 (2d6) piercing damage and 14 (4d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Description
“Dragons are rare, so seeing one is terrifying. Seeing one rotting before your eyes as it approaches? Mind-shattering!”
Cursed Dragon. The curse of foul blight is potent necromancy when leveled against a hated foe. Some foolish wizard modified the curse of foul blight to affect a dragon who had wronged them, using a single scale from the hated dragon. What this wizard unleashed was a variant of the curse of foul blight known as blightscale, accursed magic that twists and warps a majestic dragon into a loathsome, terrifying beast.
Humanoids infected with the curse of foul blight become lone wanderers, but the lairing instinct of the blightscale dragon remains true. The dragon no longer bothers to amass wealth or hunt. It makes forays from its living tomb to assuage its suffering by lashing out against any who travel nearby.
Physical Changes. A blightscale dragon’s breath weapon is a stinking exhalation of insects and necrotic bile. The dragon’s armorlike scales split and encrust with thick pus that hardens to the consistency of stone. Fangs crack and rot at the gums, just as deadly but crawling with disease and stained with ichor.
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