Multiattack. The chimera makes three attacks: one with its bite, one with its horns, and one with its claws. When its fire breath is available, it can use the breath in place of its bite or horns.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.
Horns. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d12 + 4) bludgeoning damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.
Fire Breath (Recharge 5–6). The dragon head exhales fire in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 31 (7d8) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Description
A chimera is a vile combination of goat, lion, and dragon, and features the heads of all three of those creatures. It likes to swoop down from the sky and engulf prey with its fiery breath before landing to attack.
Describe the following to your players to provide better immersion - (show, don't tell during their first encounter):
The large monstrosity swooping down from the sky is a vile combination of creatures. It has the hindquarters of a big goat and the forequarters of a great lion. It has dragon wings and three heads: a horned goat, a maneless lion, and a fierce dragon. It engulfs with its fiery breath before landing to attack with its claws and horn.
In addition, you might want to allow them an Intelligence - Arcana check to know the following (accumulated - a roll of 25 or above would know all):
DC5 (very easy): attacks with one bite, one horn, and one claw
DC10 (easy): exhales a fiery blast in a 15-foot cone; potentially every 18 seconds - ability to fly
DC15 (medium): does not have any damage resistances nor damage vulnerabilities
DC20 (hard): does not have any damage immunities
DC25 (very hard): does not have any condition immunities - does have darkvision out to 60'
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Whoever made this is like “I want to make a really scary monster, lets combine a dragon and a lion with a ... with a GOAT!
Pretty sure its from Greek mythology.
It would be a intelligence (Nature) check
It's a monstrosity therefore it should be Arcana. This is not a natural creature, it's an artifical creation.
Goats were considered to have BAAAAAD tempers, on top of the fact that they were commonly associated with devil-like features, the strange square eyes, the horns, cloven hooves etc...
Just wondering, could the chimera have a different type of dragon head? Like maybe a blue dragon head, and then it would be lightning breath?
Our DM had us go into a cave system that was inhabited by a chimera family. We slew the adults but kept two of the pups, only a few months old. What challenge rating would you give a young chimera, and what do you think the growth rate would be?
Best strategy: climb on the Chimeras back while your allies draw its attacks, and then squeeze in to pretend your a fourth head, and keep reminding them how disappointed Demogorgon must be in them.
It is from Greek Mythology, story of Bellephron.
Can you have one as a pet?
That’s a good catch.
But I’m pretty sure I’m the original myth the dragon head was a snake head, and it was the goat head that breathed fire. Also, in some versions, the snake head was a tail.
in greek mythology it had the head of a lion (which breathed fire), the body of a goat, and it's tail was a snake that spit poison
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I am not sure of the cr rating, but i imagine their growth rate would be that of a lion , goat, or dragon, which ever would be faster. honestly id look up real world stats to see how long a goat and lion growth rate add them together , and divide by 3. thats what i would use as a growth rate. that being said, as a magical hybrid created creature im not sure they have traditional pups, but if thats how your dm rules it that is the equation i would use
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In Greek mythology it was an offspring of Typhon (Serpentine-giant) and Echidna (giant Serpent) and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra. For either origin stories, rolling an Intelligence Arcana check could be used as it still seems to be a magical creature in nature. This would make them a wizard's hobby to try to understand such unusual natures. I would even allow Religion Intelligence check as it derived from the Titans of Creation (and in most D&D cosmological genesis derived from the Demon lord Demogorgon.) ...Of course the Gorgimerae could demonstrate a better origin from the Demon lord mythos. But we need to wait for that one. Hint, hint, WotC.
HA! Works in Theos as another monster my character can make