In my last post I mentioned a mad scientist creating a bunch of chimera-monsters. This was actually a zookeeper from Tennessee who went a bit mad and decided it would be a good idea to kidnap people and animals and start splicing them together.
Why? Because the voices told him to, but also to make the world a weirder place and resemble its more magical past.
The players investigating these disappearing humans and animals (they were way more worried about the animals) and eventually stumbled across a bunch of these crude hybrids. One was a man with gorilla arms and the other had the horns and lower body of a bull. The gorilla man had already died when they found him but the bull man (who they named 'Benny' since he had amnesia) was still alive but slowly succumbing to infection.
They gave Benny some quick medical care in their stolen ambulance from the first game and from there found the zookeeper's underground lab. This was filled with chimeras he had created, some feral and wild and some preserved in stasis. There was also a Frankenstein monster which almost ended them, but for the most part they fought through or stealthed past most of the monsters without too much trouble.
In the inner-sanctum of the lab, they found the zookeeper who called himself "The Surgeon". He tried to blow them up with a hidden bomb. They survived, but this woke up a the stasis chimeras and gave him time to run even deeper into the lab. After fighting off more chimeras, one of which included a man with a shark's head for a torso (just go with it) they found the Surgeon's final experiment: a pod that rapidly advanced the hybridization process.
He emerged with this pod as a winged centaur with snakes for arms. This new form tended to roll pretty badly though and even with several chimera henchman the player's plans were far superior than him. Rachel's siren character tried to mind-control interrogate him which led to this and to them finding out he had actually cut up his own brain and mailed the pieces throughout the world as a way to live again. They also got his bank account number since he won't be needing all that mad-science money anyway.
And of course they blew up the rest of his lab, because it wouldn't be an adventure without it.
For the chimeras I used a pretty simple chart where you roll to determine what body part is being replaced with what type of animal. I assumed most of the chimeras would be animal-human hybrids, but if you wanted something randomly determined instead of human you could roll on the animal chart, then the body chart, then the animal chart again and get a whole new set of options.
As far as stats go I usually come up with that on the spot with whatever seems to work best for the animal part that is rolled such as cat-chimeras having high agility/dexterity and most everything else being average.
These charts use a d6 and a d10 which I usually rolled simultaneously to save time. There's probably some overlap with the options and some of the results are pretty weird and may take some quick thinking but it's much easier than thinking up 20 or so chimeras without a chart.
To be replaced
1- Arm (s)
2- Leg (s)
3- Head/face
4- below neck
5- skin/hide
6- both beings alive but fused together in some way
Animals
1- Human
2- Reptile (snake, lizard, turtle)
3- Primate (chimp, gorilla, spider monkey)
4- Feline (lion, tiger, house cat)
5- Farm animal (goat, horse, cow)
6- Cephalopod (octopus,squid, cuttlefish)
7- Aquarian (shark, fish)
8- Avian (eagle, raven, robin)
9- Canine (dog, wolf, coyote)
10- Rodent (mouse, rat, capybara)
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