Chris Taylor

This is an enemy affected by the Legends of Aranna Damage Bug. The Chris Taylor was not assigned skill ranks appropriate for its attacks in vanilla. The revision to armor rating in the expansion renders unskilled attacks harmless.

Chris Taylor
Affiliations	Utraean Peninsula Trial of Gallus
Regular
Damage	(as spell) lvl 0
Armor	3,000
Experience	150,000
Veteran
Damage	(as spell) + 31-51 lvl 0
Armor	3,446
Experience	450,000
Elite
Damage	(as spell) + 61-103 lvl 0
Armor	3,716
Experience	13,950,000

The Chris Taylor Chicken is a bosslike foe in Dungeon Siege.

Tactics

The red chicken has an even higher trauma rating than the white Chickens in the Chicken Level and bears the name of Dungeon Siege's lead designer. It packs a ranged spell, chicken_fry (400-550 dmg), a unique, thunderous beam attack that shakes the screen and sends its feathers flying.

In the game's original release, tanking through the red chicken's undodgeable, high-magnitude blast required heavy armor and strong, continuous healing power. The nature of this attack, combined with this creature's extreme health rating, barred solo players from achieving full conquest of the level in vanilla DS... at least in a reasonable time frame.

Drops

Considering the loot dropped by the white chickens, the red chicken's drops are biased further still in favor of guaranteed rares and uniques (yellows). The difference in combat abilities and loot between the normal and elite chickens is very slight. The Elite world red chicken drops the following:

• 1-2 of either magic weapons (240-320), or magic armor coverage (520-700)
• 2-3 of either rare weapons (240-320), rare armor (600-800), or rare wildcard item (240-320)
• 1-2 of either a unique weapon (240-320), unique armor piece (600-800), or unique wildcard item (240-320)
• 50 percent chance of 5-10 piles of gold, valued 77,972 - 389,860 each
• 50 percent chance of a level 65-111 spell

Trivia

Main article: Wikipedia:Chris Taylor (game designer)