I have been running a campaign and i need help for the "final" boss. I have a person going out searching for items known as heart scales. the scales that in-front of a dragons heart. At this point he has a massed all 5 heart scales form the 5 Chromatic Dragons. He aims to use them to become a dragon and a 5 heading dragon.
I need help in coming up with stats for him as no current stats exist for such a creature.
the part would be around lv12-15 at this point and consists of a sorcerer, 1 Cleric, 1 Cleric/Paladin, 1 Finesse fighter (Fighter/Rogue hybrid without back stabs) and possibly a Half-orc barbarian. I also know that i want each head to be able to use it's own breath weapon bases on the original dragon, all though of course not at the same time.
any help on just how to get this monster started would be great.
There is no rush to finish this creature, but i have never build a creature from scratch. Only altered existing creatures such as a Feral Green Dragon, Gnoll captains, etc
thank you for any help
It think the closest existing creature to what you're after would be a 5-headed hydra of the cryohydra or pyrohydra variety. That could at least serve as a starting point.
I would suggest using an adult or young adult Red Dragon as the base for the dragon-abilities (breath weapon dice and CR, bite damage, etc), and have the final CR something like 2 points above that.
Have you considered either an aspect of Tiamat or a hell wyrm from Slayer's Guide to Dragons?
Alternately, take a CR 16ish dragon, and give it 5 bite attacks, and 5 breath weapons. That should bump it up into boss territory.
Another viable option would be gorynych with two additional heads and breath weapon/bite attacks added, breath weapon types differentiated by head and its spell-like abilities changed to match desired abilities.
Thanks a bunch. Tiamat was something i looked at, bit without the book i can't find the stats. I think i will work of this "gorynch"
A few more heads and it will be fine. thank you everyone
You will probably have to tone down it's individual breath weapon damage from 5d6 to 3d6 or 4d6, depending on level of your party when they meet it as it can breathe or bite with each of its heads during a full-attack action.