History BreathWeapon / TabletopGames

*** Hazel/Jade: its breath causes paralysis to all creatures in a 70 foot long by 30 feet wide (at the base) cone.

** Balitorr, King of the Earth Elementals, has a breath attack that can [[TakenForGranite turn opponents to stone]].

** Ballitorr, King of the Earth Elementals, has a breath attack that can [[TakenForGranite turn opponents to stone]].

* Chaosium's supplement ''All the Worlds' Monsters'' Volume III. The Baggol had a breath weapon that did 4-24 HitPoints damage with the creature's choice of side effect: sleep, fear, fire or acid.

* {{Warhammer}}, as Dungeons and Dragon's punk-rock cousin, the breath weapons tend to be grottier too. Trolls have a breath weapon/vomit attack where they can squirt out a glob of stomach acid so strong it can melt steel. The worst by far are the Great Unclean Ones, greater daemons of Nurgle, god of decay. The Great Unclean Ones can open their mouths to unleash a torrent of fecal matter, mucous, garbage and maggots. As bad as that is, the crap they squirt out is magical and full of the essence of decay. So any victim of this attack will either rot away to nothing or mutate into a daemoon.
* Warhammer40K: In addition to the delightful Nurglite spells mentioned above, that Orks have a spell called Psychic Vomit. You can guess which of the caster's orifices it comes from. Some Tyranid creatures have bio-plasma, where they hork up balls of superheated gas from their stomachs that's set on fire by clicking internal armor plates to create sparks.

** Fire Demons can breathe out a cone of violet flame 30 feet long and 10 feet wide (at the base) once every three melee rounds. The flame does 36 HitPoints of damage and has a 75% chance of igniting flammable materials.

* ''Arduin'' RPG, ''The Compleat Arduin Book 2: Resources''. The Tarakk is a giant horned lizard/dragon that can breath out a cone of fire 90 feet long and 15 feet wide at the end that inflicts damage equal to its own HitPoints. The fire breath can be used once every three melee rounds, up to four times per day.

* ''Arduin'' RPG, ''The Compleat Arduin Book 2: Resources''. The Tarakk is a giant horned lizard/dragon that can breath out a cone of fire 90 feet long and 15 feet wide at the end that inflicts damage equal to its own HitPoints.

** {{Erfworld}}'s dwagons; at least the red, green, blue, purple, and brown ones; have normal elemental breath weapons (fire, poison gas, lightning, sonic blast, and smoke respectively) while pink ones ''breath pink bubbles that smother enemies'', while yellow ones inverse the trope by having ''massive'' bowel movements. Yellow dragons can give you a ''[[{{Pun}} really crappy day]]''.

* Dragons in DungeonsAndDragons are ColourCodedForYourConvenience: each [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture_%28heraldry%29 tincture]] is assigned its own special flavour of Breath Weapon. Red, Brass, and Gold = Fire, Blue and Bronze = Lightning, Green = Poison/Corrosive Gas, Black and Copper = Acid, White and Silver = Freezing Air. Most of its imitators (including ''VideoGame/NetHack'') follow suit, though different games do not always follow the same color-to-damage assignments as the original (though red is more likely to remain fire than any other).

* Dragons in DungeonsAndDragons are ColourCodedForYourConvenience: each [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture_%28heraldry%29 tincture]] is assigned its own special flavour of Breath Weapon. Red, Brass, and Gold = Fire, Blue and Bronze = Lightning, Green = Poison/Corrosive Gas, Black and Copper = Acid, White and Silver = Freezing Air. Most of its imitators (including ''{{Nethack}}'') follow suit, though different games do not always follow the same color-to-damage assignments as the original (though red is more likely to remain fire than any other).

*** The developers seem reticent to actually make "firebreathing" a keyword, so its not actually the official name of the ability (the ability doesn't have a name). Probably because they are reluctant to keyword anything that's color-specific.

* Warhammer, as Dungeons and Dragon's punk-rock cousin, the breath weapons tend to be grottier too. Trolls have a breath weapon/vomit attack where they can squirt out a glob of stomach acid so strong it can melt steel. The worst by far are the Great Unclean Ones, greater daemons of Nurgle, god of decay. The Great Unclean Ones can open their mouths to unleash a torrent of fecal matter, mucous, garbage and maggots. As bad as that is, the crap they squirt out is magical and full of the essence of decay. So any victim of this attack will either rot away to nothing or mutate into a daemoon

* Most dragon enemies in ''TabletopGames/{{Talisman}}'' have a breath weapon, which they use on attacking characters before they enter combat. There is usually a condition that determines whether the character is affected by the breath attack, be it decided randomly with a die roll, based on a character having certain types of equipment in their possession (like weapons or armor), or based on the character's strength or craft scores. While many of the breath attacks cause characters to lose additional life, others may cause them to miss a turn, lose their spells, discard their fate, or anything in between. Some dragon breath weapons even affect other cards or characters that are unfortunate enough to share the same board space as the dragon.

* Dragons in DungeonsAndDragons are ColourCodedForYourConvenience: each [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture_%28heraldry%29 tincture]] is assigned its own special flavour of Breath Weapon. Red = Fire, Blue = Lightning, Green = Poison/Corrosive Gas, Black = Acid, White = Cold Air. Most of its imitators (including ''{{Nethack}}'') follow suit, though different games do not always follow the same color-to-damage assignments as the original (though red is more likely to remain fire than any other).
** Note that metallic dragons have TWO breath weapons (usually some kind of nonlethal but disabling gas attack and one straight-up damage attack) and that there are tons of REALLY WEIRD dragons (Iron dragons breathe molten iron, Mercury Dragons LASER BEAMS, some gem dragons breathe EXPLODING CRYSTALS...)
** Dragon- based classes give a breath weapon. The most classical example are dragon shaman and dragonfire adept

* Dragons in ''TabletoGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' are ColourCodedForYourConvenience: each [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture_%28heraldry%29 tincture]] is assigned its own special flavour of Breath Weapon. Red = Fire, Blue = Lightning, Green = Poison/Corrosive Gas, Black = Acid, White = Cold Air. Most of its imitators (including ''{{Nethack}}'') follow suit, though different games do not always follow the same color-to-damage assignments as the original (though red is more likely to remain fire than any other).