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** 4th edition dragon breath weapons are technically ''vomit'' weapons. The edition also adds the Dragonborn as a core [[Player Character]] race, who possess their namesakes' signature attack.
*** More specifically, the ''Draconomicon'' teaches that the magical energy of a D&D dragon's breath weapon is stored in the stomach, not in the lungs; this is what is meant by "vomit weapon". The expelled effect is explicitly magical, though—it is mystical energy, and not a biological by-product as found in some other D&D creatures.
** [[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 ''[[
** Played with in ''[[Gold Digger]]''. Sliding up the scale, Iron and Copper dragons have fairly generic elemental breath weapons, usually fire. Golden dragons are renowned for having completely random breath weapons, which are affected by their magical auras as well. At the top of the peak, Platinum dragons don't have breath weapons at all, but rather "ether vents", which are essentially small points on their body that can channel destructive levels of magic effortlessly (when used for attack, [[Word of God]] has compared them to [[Star Trek]] ship phasers.)
* Many Tyranids from ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' sport bio-plasma attacks, which are basically vomiting hellfire. Some Daemons and Daemonhosts ''literally'' vomit hellfire.
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