Can you have a Pyro-Cryo Hydra?

[Jeph]

So, yesterday in Corlon's game, we faught a Cryohydra. It didn't last long, as it got criticalled by a ballista and shot with a fireball in the first round of combat, but there was much metagame speculation about hydras.

I was just wondering of the opposite nature of Cryo and Pyro would disallow them to coexist on one Hydra. Is there an official ruling on this somewhere?

 

[Phoenix8008]

I don't have any official rules concerning the hydra itself, but if you can create a magic item with Frost and Flame powers together, then I don't see why you couldn't make a hydra combining the two...

 

[shilsen]

Since the CR rating under hydras in the MM lists all combinations of heads (from 5 heads to 12), lernaean and either pyro or cryo, and the pyrohydra and cryohydra descriptions both specifically say that it can also be of the lernaean form and don't mention the other type. So I think it's safe to say that officially pyro & cryo do not exist on the same hydra. But I think a hydra with half its heads breathing fire and half breathing cold would be kinda cool.

Coincidentally, we ran into a twelve-headed learnean hydra in our session yesterday. Those things are tough.

 

[the Jester]

As a dm, I'd do it.

As a player, I'd love encountering it.

Sometimes the rules have to take a back seat to teh fun. And a lot of dnd books will tell you that, too (like the discussion of putting templates on creatures that aren't supposed to have them in SS).

 

[Destil]

Humm... 5 headed Piro / Cyro / Static / Resonance / Corrosive hydra. Thanks for the idea!

 

[Sejs]

Take a 6-pyrohydra and a 6-headed cryohydra then combine them both with the multi-headed creature template!


That sounds at least plausible, heh. Can someone confirm if that'd work?

 

[Hypersmurf]

I'm wondering what happens if you use the Improved Familiar feat to summon a Fire Elemental familiar, and then use the Elemental Familiar spell from the WotC Website Spellbook to turn it into a Water Elemental Fire Elemental.

-Hyp.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Steam Paraelemental Familiar?

 

[satori01]

Can you stack the Holly and Jolly template to any Holiday?