Weekly Beasties: Goat King (d20)
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When an entire village's goats disappear overnight¸ there can be but one explanation. When a siren¸ deep-throated bleating sounds from the hills¸ the goats answer the cry of their king. A Goat King is a mysterious creature that traipses through the world¸ calling its kin from their bondage in human settlements. Goats and men alike can hear their calls for miles¸ and goats will go to any length to free themselves and flee into the woods to join their King.
A beast the size of a draft horse¸ verging on some two thousand pounds¸ combining aspects of goat and dragon. It has a long¸ reptilian¸ bisected tail and an odd wattle like a dragon's wings¸ with multicolored horns and a flickering serpent's tongue. Otherwise¸ its body is much like a goat's - absent the front legs.
Capable of living on near any sustenance due to its roiling stomach fluids¸ the Goat King can also exhale those fluids in a searing cloud of toxic gas to kill its foes.
Goats summoned to their king undergo a slow¸ insidious transformation. Over the course of a few days with the creature¸ they slowly gain a malign intelligence - rising to the pseudo-awareness of the King itself. Reports from distant lands even say that those creatures which spend enough time - months or years - with the king slowly transform into foul Goat-Men¸ building a society which is a cruel mockery of a human one. Slaying the goat king immediately reverses the transformation and frees the goats¸ which usually return to their homes.