The Manticore uses the Multiattack action as its action during its *turn*. 

The Multiattack action here means that during its turn:

It makes 1 attack roll for its bite AND 2 more, one for each claw

or

It makes 3 ranged attack rolls with its tail spikes

i got one as a pet 10/10 would recommend keeping as a pet

I love this thing, first one shot I ever played, this was the first thing that I personally ever killed that wasn't some sort of slime.

It has flight bro, it'll just fly up and shoot poison needles at you

hubba hubba

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we will be facing three of these puppies in our next session... can they be reasoned with seeing that they speak common?

Per the description you can try to talk with them, but they're gonna need to be convinced they'll get something worthwhile from it, and with their low INT I'd say you need to keep your argument simple or it'll decide figuring out if it's worthwhile is too much trouble and go back to trying to eat you.

Sure. If you can find a spear that would do 68 damage in one attack.

The manticore is buff

I know this is late, but the chimera would win easily, first of all it's CR (and almost HP) is two times higher then the manticore, the manticore has more range however, so if it managed to fly out of range of the fire breath and then start attacking melee after it's out of spikes it might have a chance, assuming it hits most of it's spikes, which it should hit around half of them as it has a +5 to hit and the chimera has 14 ac, with an average of 7 damage thats 84 hit points, but the manticore only has 7 intelligence, so likely this wouldn't happen and it would just be killed fairly easily by the Chimera 

Yeah. Ik. I commented that before taking a good look at the stat blocks.

just got done having to fight this thing by myself recently and nearly died, escaped with 1 hp

I love the manticore, perfect low to mid level challenges.

I hope my DM doesn't use him

Your dm definitely used him

nuh uh

i  hate them

So fun! Ate my mom in about 5 minutes, such a great experience!

my group has a manticore named richard. they love him and their other pets :).

This thing almost TPKed the whole party it was a bard and a rouge and we were rolling like shit the npc had to save us

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥 𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕀 𝕗𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕞𝕪 𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕚𝕘𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕀'𝕞 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕨𝕒𝕤 𝕒 𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕖.