Explain to me why goats are part of this. Lions and serpents I get

Now, here's what I don't get:

Bellerophon dropped a chunk of lead in the chimera's throat. The chimera's fire melted the lead, blocking off its air passage. And the story goes that the chimera suffocated and died.

...But the chimera had three heads? It must have had three air passages, right?

My immediate assumption is that the goat and lion necks come together at some point and it was blocked off past there. And I'm not sure there's any reasonable way for a windpipe to go from the snake tail to the lungs, so there probably just isn't one there.

Because they are cunts.

The other two heads may or may not connect to the digestive system, but far less likely to connect to the lungs.

It casts the spells

Snake mouth is the pooper.

They've got a severe case of cuntitis.

The Lion is force of will, determination. Ferocity. You won't let anything beat you no matter what the cost.

The Serpent is showing that you will use anything to win, no matter how underhanded.

The Goat is stubbornness. No matter how big or how numerous your foe, you will not stay down until you are dead.

Let's not forget the practical uses every head brings.
>lion is strength based melee attacks
>serpent is cunning and agile (dex), poisoning with his bites and spitting venom at range
>goat has an arsenal of magical abilities mostly infernal ones

You list valid points friend.

Sounds like the molten lead went into the chimera's lungs. That's some rough shit to come back from, even for a fire-breathing creature.

Greeks didn't consider goats evil, they were pretty big on raising them actually.
Satyrs were randy little bastards, not foul sorcerers. Pan was similarly the god of the country folk, not at all evil, though his parties were wild and his maenads were dangerous. Still not much worse than running into the other Greek gods in their cups, to be honest.

All these weird old conglomeration beasts were generally symbolic, though. A lot of them were what you call "calendar beasts" where each part represented a season or somesuch. Asia minor was littered with the things.
The Chimera was more obviously a monster, however. I've got to admit, though, I'm uncertain of the specific symbolism it might have held for the ancient Greeks.

THE GOAT IS SILENCED!

My players fought a chimera monster and this is what I did as well.

A few have said it already, but ill say it again.
As someone who has interacted with a few, thay are all collectively stubborn and insane.
Craft as fck too, knew one that used to try to break legs with the rope it was tied up on.
In short, it gives the lion and snake, creatures known for sloth, absolute bloodthirst and enough hate to make khorne think twice.

>Lions and serpents I get

okay, so why are they part of this?

Not OP, but they're obviously dangerous beasts.

Also consider goats are capable of eating basically anything. With a goat head and a strong enough digestive system, food is the last thing a chimera's ever going to worry about.

Meat and milk
And wool

Imagine the terror if it had 3 goat heads instead.

Ferocious as a lion, cunning as a snake, relentless as a goat.

youtube.com/watch?v=yuwprXAaSv0

so?

Goats are fucking evil, they eat everything.
When the food of the ground (including tin cans) is fully consumed, they climb trees or mountains !
Fly you fools !

bible

I think the more disturbing part of that is that it's in reverse.

No they haven't you illiterate shit.

Goats were and still are important livestock all over the world. The only people who have ever associated goats with anything evil are Jews and Christians, and then because in the founding days of their respective religions Greco-Roman culture was dominant. They made Roman emperors and Greek gods sources of evil in their belief systems because everyone loves to hate the biggest, baddest dudes on the block. It's no different than Iran rewriting the Koran to paint America as Satan.

Goat Satan is literally Christian/Jewish whining that they can't be Roman.

>fuck off cunt

youtube.com/watch?v=hnTbsbpB65I

>You got a fuckin nice cunt radar

Lion -> fericious beast
Snake -> deceitfull poisoner
Goat -> uninhibited stubborness

Its a kind of powerfull warrior.
Wildness, sneaky and sexuall prowness combine it with attributes of a warrior, tactician and defensor.
A monster which you would describe as op.

>'I got one left and it's not going to you Kevin, you know why? Cause you're a cunt.'
>Runs off
>'You're a cunt Kevin!'

What would this world be like without Australians?

>Sorry Alex for swearing mate I know you're just little, but fucking little people gotta learn how to use the word cunt.
>You don't fucking say it but you fucking hear people who know how to use the word cunt.
>And it's the most beautiful word in the English language, it's a fucking complex word too, with fucking so many fucking nuances even more than the word fuck.
The Australian language in all it's glory.

Thank you.

I have to disagree. Cunt is damn useful, but fuck is still the most powerful word in the English language. It can go places cunt can't hope to fit.

Not to Aussies, mate. They have a gift for molding the context and application of the word cunt in ways you and I can barely grasp. To them, cunt is perhaps the most malleable and dynamic word that can be used, striking a perfect balance between familiarity and profanity, and as such swearing has been elevated to a level of eloquence we would limit poetry to.

I've never really felt the power of the word cunt. Feels like the same thing as calling someone a dick, to me, really. I don't get what all the fuss is about.

BEWARE THE SNAKE'S VENOM!

>One of the first google results for chimera, even for someone who has no google search history saved, is from a Fate series spinoff phone game

This. Weird is putting it mildly.

They are completely fucked up in the head. Goat sees bull that is at least 15 times his mass, what will it do? Attack him head on trying to gore poor bull that can't understand what's happening. And bleating constant fucking bleating. You think lion roar is scary? After around five seconds of listening to goat bleating you will want to behead yourself.

Because some ancient Greek found a pile of bones of several animals and thought they were from one creature.

It is clear the mishap result of a vore predator-prey porn between a goat and a lion.

Seanbaby put it best

"When you break eye contact with a goat, a coin flips in it's head. If it's head, it charges. If it's tails, it charges as hard as it can."

In eastern mythology there are three great beasts, the dragon, the tiger and the pheonix, coresponding roughly to Life, Death and Rebirth.

In the western mythology there's three similar animals, the lion the serpent and the unicorn.

So you see, that's why the goat is in there.

you kidding? human would domesticate flesh eating parasites if we could make some sort of cheese out of them

It's jihad all the way down with goats.

What Zootopia should have been

when i was on vacation in the pacific northwest, i went with some friends up Hurricane Ridge in the Olympia peninsula. upon entering, we were given a flier warning about the local mountain goat population. specifically, it warned against urinating off of the trail, as the goats are attracted to it.

goats are the real life magical realm creatures.

All our goats are actually fiendish goats. Mundane goats don't have horns.

An aussie once told me that if you hear an aussie calling someone a cunt, he's being friendly and just engaging in banter. If you hear an aussie call someone "mate" or "friend", you know that guy will probably get punched in the face.

It's later revealed that Kevin was abandoned as a baby and recovered by a family when he was 2-3 weeks old, only to be kicked out again because they weren't allowed to have goats, thus causing him to gain his case of cuntitis.

Also he'd been growing without getting his collar replaced so it was constantly nearly choking him, which also made him act like a cunt. He was close to being choked before the guy cut it off of him.

First name's Richard. Haha this guy's awesome

The Arabic text in that image makes me cringe

>not written right to left
>only written using isolate forms rather than connecting all the letters together.

absolutely haraam

I'm not Australian

>why are goats part of (x)

the answer is literally always because /utg/ faggots and other neo-liberal cucklords wrote it like that

well, you're welcome to suggest an alternative, towelhead

Now, if D&D is so literal and flanderized, why is it that chimeras aren't vulnerable to lead weapons? They should have damage reduction 10/lead or something.

I think next time I run 3.5, I'm going to use a chimera as a boss fight. But I'm going to beef it up a bit.

My chimera will get to act three times per round on three separate initiative counts; one for each head.
Smaller full attack; lion head gets bite/claw/claw, snake head gets bite/claw/claw, and goat head gets gore/claw/claw.
The chimera can use its breath weapon once every 1d6 rounds instead of 1d4, but breathes cold from the goat head, fire from the lion head, and lightning from the snake head.
Chimera can't be flanked.
Chimera gets damage reduction 10/lead.

CR can stay where it is. Should be fine.

'Cause lead's not usually a weapon type made available.
That said, I now have a new houserule about chimeras.

Lead could be a new special material for weapons and armor. Makes the weapon heavier, but softer. Blocks divination and clairsentience.

Get a load of this guy, not wanting to fuck curvy goat milfs!

This is why I love goats.

chimeramyth.blogspot.com/2014/11/chimera-origins-of-myth.html

Well where else is it going to breath fire from?

Are you stupid or just trolling?
9/10 got a genuine reply

>youtube.com/watch?v=yuwprXAaSv0
>brekkie is weet-bix
It is the little things that make this quintessentially Australia.

Neat read, thanks

It'd be kind of interesting to see locale based Chimeras, like Canadian Geese/Moose/Grizzly hybrids for Canada.

>Canadian Geese/Moose/Grizzly hybrids
Jesus Christ, how horrifying.

Easy there satan

Antlers of a moose, head and paws of a bear, wings and long neck of a geese?

The aggressive dickishness of a goose, aggressive territoriality of a moose, and aggressive hunting of a grizzly.
Truly, the most horrifying of asshole monsters.

I always assumed it was sort of like Ammut over in Egypt, where Egyptians thought about three of the most formidable creatures they'd seen and decided the soul-devouring monster in the afterlife was a crocodile-lion-hippo.

Chimera has been bastardized to the point that it means "an assembly of animals" so it seems completely in canon to have regional variants consist of known dangerous animals (like say Wolf, Boar, Snake for middle America)

All I want is a cat/squirrel/rabbit.

>hunts small animals in the dark, agile
>can climb everything, known for being hyperactive and chittery
>reproduces like mad

that just sounds like rats

Not exactly what you're looking for, but in the same spirit at least.

>Shhh, I hear a fowl beast nearby
>HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK

That seems more like a Canadian Hydra Goose. We should take it one step further and give each individual head magic.

Why stop there? Who needs spells when the Goose Hydra has a PAIR of beholder eyes per head.

Ah yes, the ancient greeks and their love for books from the future.

>everyone who disagrees with me is stupid or trolling

It's time to renew your www dot tobycux dot com account

I thought that the point was the goat head seems harmless but it the most dangerous because it breaths fire.

Goats are pure fucking evil, I remember my family owned a few when I was a kid and the biggest and nastiest of the lot had a real taste for human hair, you couldn't get near her without losing a decent chunk of it.

this is what they sound like;

youtube.com/watch?v=nHc288IPFzk

or maybe this;

youtube.com/watch?v=oGqsAz1WZdg

If the goat is male, the stink would be deadly by itself.

Adding lead to a weapon is fairly common practice, at least in PF.

And it's time for you to stop being a cunt.

the second video is somewhat terrifying if you close your eyes while listing.

t. paid tobycux shill

By definition, because the beast's name comes from Kaimaira, meaning goat, which was the only part unexplainable judging by its parents.

As per why did the Greeks choose the animal, it's because of its meanings, such as the difficulty to domesticate wild goats and the still wild character of the domesticated ones.

tl;dr
1. Because yes
2. Because goats are crazy