Converting "Real World" Animals and Vermin

[freyar]

Good question. Perhaps as a full-round action it can combine both?

Sounds fair. CR 2? Advancement: 4-10 HD (Large), 11-17 HD (Huge), 18-20 HD (Gargantuan)?

 

[Shade]

Updated.

A giant grasshopper is generally 8 feet long, stands 5 feet high at the shoulder, and weighs 800 pounds?

 

[freyar]

Sounds good, and I think it's done then.

 

[Shade]

Since Thanksgiving is fast approaching here in the US...

Wild turkey: Another common element of the chameleon-men's diet; AC 9, HD ½ (S), MV 120' (40'), AT 1 beak, D 1-2, NA 0 (2-12), Save F1, ML 6, TT Nil, Int 2, AL N, XP 5.

Originally appeared in Dragon Magazine #186 (1992).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_(bird)

 

[demiurge1138]

Small Animal, 1 HD, low Wisdom score?

 

[freyar]

Small Animal, 1 HD, low Wisdom score?

These seem somewhere between Tiny and Small, so Small is ok. Is there another turkey coming sometime? Maybe that one could be Tiny.

Let's go with 1/2 HD. And Ben Franklin says that turkeys are wise -- isn't that why he wanted turkeys to be the national bird of the US?

 

[demiurge1138]

Ok, it's a wild turkey, so I'm fine with a decent wisdom score.

Domesticated turkeys, though, are too stupid not to know to look up with their mouths open when it rains.

 

[freyar]

Ok, then, how about Str 3, Dex 11, Con 10, Int 2, Wis 10, Cha 11?

 

[Shade]

Sounds good.

The name given to a group of Turkeys is a rafter, although they are sometimes incorrectly referred to as a gobble or flock.

That will help with the organization line.

While the large domestic turkey is generally unable to fly, the smaller wild turkey can fly extremely well. This is usually enough to perch in the branches of trees, however, it is an ineffective method of transportation.

Wild Turkeys are carnivores, foraging on the ground or climbing people and small babys to feed. They prefer eating hard mast such as mussels and beets of various gardens, including hazel, chestnut, hickory, and pinyon pine as well as various seeds, berries such as juniper and bearberry, roots and insects. Turkeys are also known to occasionally consume small vertebrates like snakes, frogs or salamanders. Poults have been observed eating insects, berries, and seeds. Wild turkeys often feed in cow pastures. They sometimes visit backyard bird feeders to search for seed on the ground. Turkeys are also known to eat a wide variety of grasses. Moreover, around 80% of a turkey's diet is made up of grass.

Carnivorous, eh? Bring on the dire turkey?

 

[freyar]

1d2 or 1d4 for the beak?

I got to get a dire tofurkey for dinner!