Giant Vultures are still ruled by their bestial nature, but their modicum of sapience makes them smart enough to know that if a creature dies, the vulture can feed upon it's corpse. They have an Intelligence of 6, meaning they are smarter than the common vulture, but their thought processes aren't complex enough to experience complicated humanoid emotions, or contemplate major dilemmas. To a vulture, another creature dead means another harvest. Also, since vultures feed on carrion, a more sapient vulture would predict a creature's suffering and try to bring about it's demise. These mystical worlds are littered with much worse than this. This is a vulture for a fantasy game world. If you're gonna use a vulture that's intentionally similar to a real-life one, do it right.īut WHY? Why do intelligent vultures inherently enjoy the suffering of others? Slander! Slander!īecause asking too many questions like that will unravel so much in this game, that's why! And yes, I know this is a fantasy game and all that, but if you want a "giant" possibly evil flying bird with strong talons and beak you can just use an eagle. I'd at least swap its damage with that of the beak and change the multiattack to two talon attacks and one beak attack in order to keep the CR. Of course, you could say that, since this is a fictional vulture that does attack prey in order to make it die faster, it makes sense for it to have sharper talons than the usual vulture, but still they shouldn't be stronger than their beak. Giving a vulture a talon attack is like giving a tiger a headbutt attack, and this isn't the only creature in the edition with this problem. Since they're scavengers and thus don't need to hunt prey in order to survive, vultures have tiny talons in comparison to other birds of prey that aren't useful as weapons, but strong beaks in order to tear carcasses. Most importantly, the actions make no sense. It's a minor complaint, but it bothers me because of its inconsistency with the other aligned "giant" creatures: eagles, owls and even elk have their own languages, so why don't vultures get one too? I'd either change its name (perhaps Evil Vulture or something like that, given its alignment and behavior) or make it larger. I assume the Large size implies a wingspan of around 10 ft (~3 m), and that's certainly large, but it's barely larger than the cinereous vulture (which is the largest Old World vulture irl) or even the griffon vulture, not to mention condors and teratorns. It should be larger in order to be considered a giant vulture. Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft Creaturesīeasts as a whole seem to be kind of a mess in this edition, but this one in particular bothers me for three reasons:
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