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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6735444" data-attributes="member: 66434">The nature of that type of flight is limiting enough without inventing anything else. Normal bird flight isn't as perfect as the fly spell. Creatures like aarakocra and harpies have to maintain a minimum flight speed to stay in the air. Check the MM and you will see how few flying creatures get the hover feature. Think airplane and not helicopter. Most dungeons are too cramped to allow this type of flight. Outdoors it will be of much more use of course but it is a racial ability and it should be useful at times. Unless bird man is also invisible he will be very conspicuous up in the air and difficult to hide. From a tactical standpoint the first thing a smart enemy will do is eliminate air superiority. That means focus fire on featherbutt until it plummets from the sky. The pack of wolves in the woods is still a threat to everyone else. If the bird is above the treetops flying then seeing what is happening beneath the trees is extremely difficult. The party is a member down and getting chewed up while the bird remains safe for the moment but unable to help very much.</blockquote>