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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Big Mac" data-source="post: 4560622" data-attributes="member: 61182">unnamed eagle-like giant bird - SJR4 Practical PlanetologyI've just been wikifiying information from Practical Planetology and have noticed stats for an unnamed eagle-like bird on page 35. Here is the very sparse amount of information that is there:So is a giant eagle-like bird, with claws on its wingtips, no legs and the ability to give birth to live young different enough from other birds to qualify as something that should be converted?If so, can we call it an Alabeth Giant Eagle (after the planet it comes from)?One thing missing from this description is that this giant eagle-like bird either never sleeps, or sleeps with one half of its brain (while flying in a circle) then switches to let the other half of their brain sleep.Apart from that, I would say this conversion could start with a <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/eagleGiant.htm" target="_blank">Giant Eagle (from the SRD)</a>, moving the claws, remove the intellegence (and the legs <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ), and than making a pass through the rest of the text to pull out any inappropirate skills or feats and change the combat section to remove any mention of nests.I'm not sure if this creature could be tamed, as I'm not sure it can "land" and "take off", like a normal bird can. That would possibly make hand-rearing impossible. On Alabeth there are no sentient creatures on the same 'layer' to train this bird, so it doesn't get discussed, but if someone was going to recycle this monster into a non-Spelljammer game, they might want to give this a go. Maybe only flying characters can try to train the creatures.</blockquote>

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