Meta:Horned dragon

Remaster replacement

Paizo ceased the use of chromatic dragons with the publication of Monster Core, as part of the Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project. When mentioned in Monster Core and subsequent publications, existing chromatic dragons might be retroactively changed to new or equivalent types of non-chromatic dragons. For example, the green dragon Athervox from Dragons Revisited 44 was retroactively converted to a horned dragon in Monster Core.

Paizo reused several mechanical and characterization details of green dragons when creating horned dragons, but reclassifies horned dragons as primal dragons, adds new artwork and descriptions of their appearance and abilities, and allows them to be colors other than green and to live in regions other than forests.¹²

References

↑ "We also took these opportunities to update monsters in interesting ways where we could, thus the shift from the dragon’s color to their horn and the addition of their impaling charge. The change in focus allows us to make the dragon more of our own and even opens them for future possibilities. While the horned dragon in Monster Core is green and lives in forests, there’s a decent chance you could see a blue horned dragon that lives in a lake or a tan horned dragon that lives in a desert sometime in the future!" Luis Loza. Mess With the Dragon, Get the Horns!. Paizo blog, 2024
↑ " I literally used the green dragon stat block as a starting point and changed things only by adding brand new material or updating terms to remaster language. Their entry still notes them as contemplative, open to communicating with outsiders, and keeping vast amounts of knowledge in the form of scrolls and tomes among their hoards." Luis Loza. (March 3, 2024). Comment on Mess With the Dragon, Get the Horns!, Paizo blog.

[1] "We also took these opportunities to update monsters in interesting ways where we could, thus the shift from the dragon’s color to their horn and the addition of their impaling charge. The change in focus allows us to make the dragon more of our own and even opens them for future possibilities. While the horned dragon in Monster Core is green and lives in forests, there’s a decent chance you could see a blue horned dragon that lives in a lake or a tan horned dragon that lives in a desert sometime in the future!" Luis Loza. Mess With the Dragon, Get the Horns!. Paizo blog, 2024

[2] " I literally used the green dragon stat block as a starting point and changed things only by adding brand new material or updating terms to remaster language. Their entry still notes them as contemplative, open to communicating with outsiders, and keeping vast amounts of knowledge in the form of scrolls and tomes among their hoards." Luis Loza. (March 3, 2024). Comment on Mess With the Dragon, Get the Horns!, Paizo blog.

1

2