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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6122298" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>I'd hesitate to bother much about real-world physics. A bird that big would have to be made out of superscience materials to fly with the agility its 3E stats give it.</p><p></p><p>The SRD's estimated weight does seem too low. The picture of a Roc reminds me rather of a Harpy Eagle. A Harpy eagle is typically about 3 foot long with a 6 foot wingspan and weighs 15 pounds or so. A Roc is ten times bigger, so ought to weigh a thousand times as much if it scales up evenly (which likely wouldn't be the case in a real-world bird, but I'd forgive it for a fantasy giant eagle).</p><p></p><p>That's 15000 pounds or so, which is pretty much the same as your suggestion.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and the Athasian Roc in the 2nd edition AD&D Dark Sun Monstrous Appendix Terrors of the Desert has quite a bit of detail on its diet and lifting capacity. It needs at least 200 pounds of meat a day to survive, but prefers twice that much, can "easily carry 8 man-sized creatures" and can fly with up to 2000 pounds of cargo, although it's aerial agility is lowered if it carries more than 1000 pounds.</p><p></p><p>The Athasian Roc is <em>slightly</em> smaller than the Common Roc though - 15 HD and 50 feet long, compared to 18 HD and 60 feet long for the 2E AD&D Roc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6122298, member: 57383"] I'd hesitate to bother much about real-world physics. A bird that big would have to be made out of superscience materials to fly with the agility its 3E stats give it. The SRD's estimated weight does seem too low. The picture of a Roc reminds me rather of a Harpy Eagle. A Harpy eagle is typically about 3 foot long with a 6 foot wingspan and weighs 15 pounds or so. A Roc is ten times bigger, so ought to weigh a thousand times as much if it scales up evenly (which likely wouldn't be the case in a real-world bird, but I'd forgive it for a fantasy giant eagle). That's 15000 pounds or so, which is pretty much the same as your suggestion. Oh, and the Athasian Roc in the 2nd edition AD&D Dark Sun Monstrous Appendix Terrors of the Desert has quite a bit of detail on its diet and lifting capacity. It needs at least 200 pounds of meat a day to survive, but prefers twice that much, can "easily carry 8 man-sized creatures" and can fly with up to 2000 pounds of cargo, although it's aerial agility is lowered if it carries more than 1000 pounds. The Athasian Roc is [I]slightly[/I] smaller than the Common Roc though - 15 HD and 50 feet long, compared to 18 HD and 60 feet long for the 2E AD&D Roc. [/QUOTE]
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