Claw Aura (Evocation) Level: 2 Range: 0 Components: V Duration: 1 round /level Casting Time: 1 Area of Effect: Special Saving Throw: Special When this spell is cast, the dragon's front claws are enveloped by a visible aura that reflects the dragon's breath weapon. Thus, a fiery aura shrouds a red dragon's claws, an electrical aura for blue dragons, acidic for black dragons, and so forth. If the dragon has multiple breath -weapon types, the dragon chooses which breath weapon the aura mimics. Once selected, however, the aura cannot be changed. While the spell lasts, the claw aura has two possible effects on the dragon's claw attacks, depending on the particular breath weapon mimicked. In the case of breath weapons that inflict damage (such as fire, acid, chlorine gas, and so on), the daw aura effectively doubles the dragon's claw damage dice. Thus, a claw attack that normally inflicts ld8 damage inflicts 2d8 damage instead. With each successful hit, the victim receives a saving throw [[vs Breath Weapon]] to reduce the strike's damage by half, but these saving throws apply only to the extra damage dice provided by the daw aura , not the damage inflicted by the actual claw strike itself. In the event that the daw aura duplicates a non-damaging breath weapon (such as a silver dragon's paralysis weapon or a brass dragon's sleep gas), there is no damage increase. Instead, the claw aura afflicts targets with the effect in question, though saving throws against the breath effect still apply if appropriate. Regardless of the saving throw's outcome, the claw damage itself is delivered as usual. Objects struck by a claw aura are subject to the effects normally associated with the breath weapon in question. Therefore, such objects must make saving throws accordingly. Claw aura can be negated early by the dragon's silent command, or if it is subjected to a successful [[Dispel Magic]], This spell has almost no value to non¬ dragons, as the caster must be equipped with a natural breath weapon that the spell can mimic, (Temporary breath weapons acquired via spells, magical items, or the like are not considered "natural" for this spell's purposes*) Nondragon casters who possess a natural breath weapon, however, might be able to modify the spell for their own use, at the DM's discretion. Restricted to Dragons