From: Richard Fenner (rfenner@sol.UVic.CA)
Date: Thu 07 May 1992 - 09:56:33 EEST
In the RQDigest V5 #12 Jamie O'Shaughnessey posted a set of stats
for a RQ version of the Chimera from Greek mythos. Here is a
response to his invitation to do a write-up and brief history on
it. Well, everything but brief. In doing this, the intent was
to remain as faithful to the Greek definition as possible, but to
make the monster believable in the Gloranthan world and mythos,
while still having a little fun with it. Hopefully, all this has
been balanced off. This is not in any sense official or binding,
and I would like to hear opinions from others on this. If you
really hate what follows, you can always ignore what follows.
Game Aid for introducing the Chimera: I created this with the
intent of showing what I think PC's should know about the Chimera
in order to approach it and have some hope for success, what to
expect, and still have some surprises in place for them. The
combination of attacks, and number of possible chaos features
make it a formidable foe. Feel free to ignore this.
A "lost scroll of historical/technical importance"... I would
suggest having this written in Auld Wyrmish, which has
differences, and intricacies enough to justify the unusual, and
potentially misread name.
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