Chimera dnd 5e pdf#
Chimera dnd 5e series#

If you enjoy my reviews, please consider leaving a donation, or joining my patreon here. You can directly support Raging Swan Press here on patreon. You can get this great little dressing-file for less than a buck here! Steve Hood’s chimera dressing is a very good little file – the treasure table in particular is inspired, and while I wasn’t as enamored with the lair features tables, as a whole, this is certainly worth the fair asking price.

Chimera dnd 5e pdf#

The pdf comes fully bookmarked for your convenience, in spite of its brevity (kudos!) and is included in two versions – one optimized for screen-use, and one for the printer. Layout adheres to Raging Swan Press’ elegant two-column b/w-standard, and we get a nice piece of b/w-artwork.

Barbed swords, chimera-themed flails, sets of daggers – these actually made me stat a couple of the items! The trash table includes scorched spear-remnants, odd charms of feathers and sticks, boiled wine, mismatched boots containing skulls and similar odds and ends.Įditing and formatting are very good, I noticed no serious hiccups. The treasure table includes torcs that allow you to turn into a chimera, but which also drive you mad. Minor lair features include bones and viscera/remnants of previous feasts/hunts., horns embedded in trunks and the like…solid array.Īs for chimera appearances, we have pitch-black chimera, tiger-striped hides, spiraling horns, lumps of molten metal embedded in the dragon head and the like – these are very distinct and cool.

As for the table dealing with what’s currently going on, we have the chimera trying to get a bone out of the goat-head’s mouth, an instance where said head is grazing while the others stare into the distance, lion and dragon heads fighting over food – pretty neat array.Īs far as major lair features are concerned, we have three skulls set near broken skeletal remains, ceiling scored with bloody marks, piles of bodies and manure, a strange parody of a dragon’s hoard…or what about fire-blasted shadows of victims? Nice one. Why? Because the individual entries can be used to expertly foreshadow chimeras. Outside of a chimera’s lair, one might find oddly-mixed tracks, splintered bones in rotten manure, shed snake skins, fire-blasted trees, etc. Leshen/Leshun Wargaming Monster Rocket Pig D&D 28mm DnD Dungeons and.

Chimera dnd 5e series#

Finding appropriate entries can be rough, and so, this series attempts to remedy this shortcoming on 2 pages, with a total of 7 d10-tables. Chimera (, 5E, Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder,, Frostgrave, Mordheim. Sometimes, you just need a bit of dressing for a wayside encounter – or something specific to a monster type. This installment of the Monstrous Lairs-pdfs clocks in at 8 pages, 1 page front cover, 2 pages of advertisement, 1 page SRD, 1 page back cover, 1 page editorial/ToC, leaving us with 2 pages of content, so let’s take a look! Monstrous Lair: Chimera’s Den (system neutral) Traps, Haunts, Hazards and all the rest.Or a transformation spell could obviously potentially create a chimera when failed. Spells, potentially a spell ment to phase through an object if failed while phased in another animal they could combine. Which then you could make it so that over used ingredient then alters the being accordingly- so say they used to much scorpion blood, they could develop exoskeletal plates, or venomous blood/saliva. Since it would be from a failed position, most likely who ever made it used to much of an ingredient. Potions, anything would work if it is meant to change a physical aspect of a being. Also the dying breath of a creature would be pretty powerful.

So blood from a creature will be the most powerful essence, which would be stronger if its from a still living creature, but also feathers, scales, skin/fur, slime/ooz from certain creatures would work. After that you have finding and healing/helping a creature and being rewarded or buy hunting and killing one. The next easiest but the most time consuming would be to become a magical creature handler. So the easiest way but the most expensive way would be to buy them from a magical supplier.