Glide. The baaz can use its wings to glide, negating any damage from a fall of any height. It can also travel horizontally up to four times the vertical distance it descends.
Death Throes. When the baaz dies, it turns to stone instantly. If the killing blow was dealt with a slashing or piercing melee weapon, the creature dealing the killing blow must make a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw. If it fails, its weapon is stuck in the petrified draconian and cannot be removed. The baaz crumbles to dust 1 minute after death. Items in the baaz's possession are unaffected by the petrification and subsequent dissolution.
Longsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d8) slashing damage or 5 (1d10) slashing damage if used with two hands.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) slashing damage.
Description
Baaz are the smallest draconians, standing between 5 and 6 feet in height. They have short stubby tails, pairs of thin wings, lizard snouts with small fangs, and scaly bodies. Females look identical to males except for a lighter build. Newly hatched baaz have bright, brassy scales, which dull and become almost green as they reach maturity. Baaz eyes are blood red. They enjoy costumes, disguises, and highly decorative clothing.
Baaz are often encountered in disguise. They conceal their wings under long dark robes and hide their features with large hoods and masks. Such outfits enable them to pass through civilized lands unnoticed.
Bands of baaz lair in abandoned buildings of all kinds. Because of their talents in disguising themselves, they sometimes live unnoticed right in the center of human settlements.
Baaz occupy the bottom rung on the ladder of draconian social order. They tend to be chaotic in nature and self-serving when they can get away with it. Baaz males serve as soldiers and laborers, while female baaz are highly prized as managers and low-ranking military commanders. Female baaz often have the Diplomacy skill in place of the Bluff skill given in the stats above.
Combat
Baaz are cruel and sadistic fighters, especially when drunk (a state they often enter before battle; drunkenness does not affect their abilities). They engage the enemy with little technique, chopping with their weapons for maximum damage.
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