Chimera - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Magical Beast (Hybrid) · 4 hexes · SM +2 Chimera (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A furred four-legged bulk with broad batlike wings and three heads set side by side at the shoulders, the last of them reptilian. That head breathes according to its colour — acid, lightning, fire or frost. Greedy, lazy and quarrelsome, it hoards whatever it kills within easy reach of where it sleeps.

Attributes

ST26

DX12

IQ6

HT12

HP31

Will11

Per11

FP12

Basic Speed6

Basic Move9

Dodge10

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (14): thrust 3d-1 cutting, Reach C.	14	thrust 3d-1 cutting	C
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (14): thrust 3d-1 cutting, Reach C-1.	14	thrust 3d-1 cutting	C-1
Black or Green: Breathe AcidBlack or Green: Breathe Acid (12): The chimera breathes out a stream of acid, dealing thrust 1d+2 corrosion damage as large-area injury. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10).	12	The chimera breathes out a stream of acid, dealing thrust 1d+2 corrosion damage as large-area injury. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10)	—
Blue: Breathe ElectricityBlue: Breathe Electricity (12): The chimera breathes out a bolt of lightning, dealing thrust 1d+2 burning surge damage as large-area injury. Wearing any metal armor anywhere means having DR 1 against it, if that would be worse for the victim. Anyone wounded must make a HT roll at -1 per 2 HP of injury or be stunned, rolling against HT each turn thereafter to recover. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10).	12	The chimera breathes out a bolt of lightning, dealing thrust 1d+2 burning surge damage as large-area injury. Wearing any metal armor anywhere means having DR 1 against it, if that would be worse for the victim. Anyone wounded must make a HT roll at -1 per 2 HP of injury or be stunned, rolling against HT each turn thereafter to recover. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10)	—
Red: Breathe FireRed: Breathe Fire (12): The chimera breathes out a blast of fire, dealing thrust 2d+2 burning damage as large-area injury. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10).	12	The chimera breathes out a blast of fire, dealing thrust 2d+2 burning damage as large-area injury. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10)	—
White: Breathe FrostWhite: Breathe Frost (12): The chimera breathes out a blast of extremely cold vapor, dealing thrust 2d non-incendiary burning damage as large-area injury. Targets injured by this attack must make an HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of injury, or take a -2 penalty to DX and become Numb (p. B146) for (20-HT) minutes (minimum 1 minute). This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10). It will blow out any ordinary fire (candle, lantern, torch, etc.).	12	The chimera breathes out a blast of extremely cold vapor, dealing thrust 2d non-incendiary burning damage as large-area injury. Targets injured by this attack must make an HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of injury, or take a -2 penalty to DX and become Numb (p. B146) for (20-HT) minutes (minimum 1 minute). This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10). It will blow out any ordinary fire (candle, lantern, torch, etc.)	—

Traits (33)

Bestial
Born Biter 2
Catfall
Chauvinistic
Combat Reflexes
Discriminatory Smell
Doesn’t Sleep (Temporary Disadvantage, No Extra Head 1)
Early Maturation 3
Extra Attack 2
Extra Head 2
Extra Legs (Four Legs)
Flight (Cannot Hover; Winged)
Fur
Greed (15)
Hidebound
Horizontal
Immunity to Petrification
Infravision
Injury Tolerance (No Blood; Accessibility, Only to stop bleeding from a severed head)
Laziness
Likes meat
Miserliness (12)
Night Vision 5
No Fine Manipulators
Odious Racial Habit (Eats sapient beings)
Perfect Balance
Peripheral Vision
Regeneration (Slow)
Regrowth (Head Only; Nuisance Effect, Takes a month)
Short Lifespan 2
Social Stigma (Monster)
Tail
Uncongenial

Skills (5)

14Brawling
12Innate Attack (Breath)
13Jumping
13Stealth
12Wrestling

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/chimera.gct
Source template total: 285 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 285 points.
CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
Review attacks, special abilities, encounter frequency, treasure, grappling, and GCS modifiers before approval.
Exact GCS library matches change the template by -50 point(s).
Size 4 hexes; Weight 4,000 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER55

Offense23

Protection32

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

GCS v5 downloads

Where this one came from

Source record: Chimera
Source system: gurps_4e_fan_conversion / author_permission
Released under: cc_by_4_0
Conversion: 0.2.0-reviewed
Review status: approved
Credit: Original GURPS conversion by Enraged Eggplant, from Monsters (May 11, 2024); adapted and republished with permission.
Description: Written by Dungeons on Automatic, released under cc_by_4_0

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/chimera.gct
Source template total: 285 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 285 points.
CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
GCS cost adjudication for "Per+5": the source states 50 points and the native GCS library computes 25. Adopted the native library value of 25. Increased Perception is 5 per level (B16), so Per+5 is 25. The stated 50 prices at 10 per level.
GCS cost adjudication for "Will+5": the source states 50 points and the native GCS library computes 25. Adopted the native library value of 25. Increased Will is 5 per level (B16), so Will+5 is 25. The stated 50 prices at 10 per level.
CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 23, PR 32, CER 55, threat tier standard.
Conversion baseline reported OR 24, PR 32, CER 56 (tier standard). The reviewed values come from the consumer CER implementation, which rounds damage once after the damage-type multiplier and credits ranged accuracy; the conversion baseline ceilinged the damage base first and ignored range.
Encounter metadata derived (gregarious): average number appearing 2, wandering weight 3. Encounter metadata derived for 0.2.0 from the reviewed threat tier and creature class (appearing: minor 4 / standard 2 / major 1 / severe 1, forced to 1 for solitary classes — including swarms, which are a single multi-body creature — and raised to 6 for gregarious minor creatures; wandering weight: minor 4 / standard 3 / major 2 / severe 1). The fan-conversion source states no appearing-in-numbers or wandering values, so these are derived, not source mechanics.
Lair, treasure, and grappling remain unpopulated in 0.2.0 by package policy: the authorized fan-conversion source states no lair, treasure, or grappling values, and review declines to invent them. See review/policy/0.2.0-empty-field-policy.md.
Description text is original Dungeons on Automatic prose written from this record's own converted statistics and from the project's art direction for the creature. It is not derived from the authorized fan-conversion source, which states no creature descriptions, and not from any SRD. It carries its own authorship and CC BY 4.0 terms in the description field. See review/policy/description-policy.md.
Review approved by automated-mechanical-review on 2026-07-26 (batch ee-2026-07-26-b1-gcs-costs); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
Every exact-identity cost discrepancy on this record is adjudicated against the published GURPS cost table in review/reports/gcs-adjudication.md; the adopted value and its basis are recorded in conversionNotes.
Visual GCS verification of the .gct is not claimed by this decision; checks.gcsVisualPass is false.

Enraged Eggplant GURPS monster conversions; used, adapted, and republished with unrestricted permission from the author. Portrait and tokens are AI-generated original art. Sources and credits.