Adventure Dragon (3.5e Race)

Adventure Dragon
Summary::A playable dragon race without all that pesky LA and stuff that makes it unusable. Adventure Dragons, unlike other dragons, grow more quickly when exposed to experience.

Personality
Apart from a desire for riches and a literal thirst for adventure, Adventure Dragons are a varied bunch.

Physical Description
Adventure Dragons look like dragons, with large, vaguely crescent-shaped stripes along their backs. Their base scale color and the color of the stripes are both indicative of their properties. Good dragons are shiny, Evil dragons aren't, and Neutral dragons are only shiny on either their stripes or other scales, but not both.

Relations
Adventure Dragons are rarely found in the company of other Adventure Dragons, instead choosing the company of the humanoid races.

Alignment
Adventure Dragons come in any alignment, as can be evidenced by the chromatic or metallic nature of their scales.

Lands
Wherever one can find meat, treasure, and enemies, the Adventure Dragons dare to go.

Religion
Adventure Dragons usually worship Draconic deities.

Language
All Adventure Dragons know Common and Draconic.

Names
Adventure Dragons typically have draconic names, frequently possessing an x or "aug".

Racial Traits

 * Racial Ability Adjustments::None No ability adjustments: Apart from the massive boosts to Strength and minor boosts to Constitution, Wisdom, Charisma, and Intelligence that Adventure Dragons get as they grow, they have no ability score adjustments.
 * Type::Dragon: Adventure Dragons are Dragons.
 * Size::Small (Long): +1 bonus to Armor Class, +1 bonus on attack rolls, +4 bonus on Hide checks, –4 penalty on grapple checks, lifting and carrying limits are the same as those of a tall medium-sized character.
 * Adventure Dragon base land speed is 20 feet: They cannot fly until they reach level 5 in their Racial Paragon Class.
 * Hungry : Adventure Dragons need to eat three times as much as a normal creature of their size. Effects that reduce how much they have to eat can't reduce their need for food below that of a normal creature of their size.
 * Natural Growth : Adventure Dragons gain 1 point of experience per day if properly fed. Any time they level up, if more than half of their experience points for this level were from Natural Growth, they must level up in Adventure Dragon.
 * Draconic: An Adventure Dragon can never have fewer than half of his levels rounded up in Adventure Dragon.
 * Color: A pair of colors, chosen at character creation, determines additional abilities of the Adventure Dragon.


 * Automatic Languages: Common and Draconic.
 * Bonus Languages: Elven, Goblin, Giant, Dwarven, Ignan, Terran, Aquan, Auran.
 * Favored Class: and
 * Level Adjustment: +Level Adjustment::0
 * Effective Character Level: Effective Character Level::1