Won't work. What it takes to kill that dragon is roughly equal to a tactical nuclear device, and the Hide has to be in GOOD or Better shape.
Basic Shadow Dragon NwN set up:
Stats: (out of bioware site....some really nice pictures to btw)
Level: Dragon 31
Hit Points: 387
Armour Class: 42
Abilities: Str 31, Dex 10, Con 23, Int 28, Wis 28, Cha 29
CR: 22
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Special Abilities: Breath Weapon: Negative Energy
Description
Many, many layers of oil-black evil coat this vilest of the living dragons. So baby-seal taunting evil is the shadow dragon that prancing do-gooders simply detonate in a shower of law-abiding fragments within 30 feet of this foul wyrm. If you thought your shiny sword and bulls-eye lantern would protect you from the monsters in the dark, think again. It's not the monsters in the dark you need to fear, it's the darkness itself.
Also:
Shadow dragon
* Breath weapon: Energy-draining shadows
* Terrain: Underground
* Alignment: Always Chaotic evil
* Notes: Shadow dragons are the second most intelligent evil dragons.
* Appears in: Monsters of Faerûn and reprinted in the Draconomicon; enemy in Baldur's Gate 2. A shadow dragon called Shimmergloom is the ruler of a clan of Duergar in the second book of the Icewind Dale Trilogy, "Streams of Silver".
If it has to be splatterd with like 500000 hitpoints worth of spell damage to whack it, don't think there is going to be anything left to make armor out of.
~Rex