D&D 5E Wandering Monsters- Bird People

[Nymrohd]

Make the raptorans into a flying reptilian race, and perhaps you have something better...

We have pterafolk for that (ALso I think some saurials could fly? but those are FR only)

 

[I'm A Banana]

I'm not particularly fond of the achaierai/dire corby link, personally. It could work, but the role of achaierai has generally been one of "odd fauna tainted with evil," and changing that to "evil spawning masterminds" doesn't work very well IMO.

 

[Klaus]

I'm not particularly fond of the achaierai/dire corby link, personally. It could work, but the role of achaierai has generally been one of "odd fauna tainted with evil," and changing that to "evil spawning masterminds" doesn't work very well IMO.

It was just an off-the-top-of-my-head suggestion, since all three (achaierais, corbies and hook horrors) were all bird-like creatures from the Fiend Folio. I'd have to re-read the achais' MM entries again to see if it could be made to work.

 

[urLordy]

The pathfinder SRD describes dire corbies with crow-like heads, which made me think of Underdark kenku, and then I saw that somebody wrote an article about it
http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?204486-Wandering-Monster-Dire-Corby

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

We have pterafolk for that (ALso I think some saurials could fly? but those are FR only)

Feathered flying reptiles....

 

[I'm A Banana]

It was just an off-the-top-of-my-head suggestion, since all three (achaierais, corbies and hook horrors) were all bird-like creatures from the Fiend Folio. I'd have to re-read the achais' MM entries again to see if it could be made to work.

Yeah, I see that.

The thing for me is that mashing critters together for "moar traction!" is great, if you're careful and thoughtful about it. "They look a bit like Creature X!" isn't very careful or thoughtful, IMO, it's just a bit of free-association brainstorming. Which is a great place to start, but I wouldn't want to end there.

 

[GX.Sigma]

I'm a bit late to the conversation, but why do dire corbies need a backstory at all? You don't have backstory for dire wolves, do you?

 

[Klaus]

I'm a bit late to the conversation, but why do dire corbies need a backstory at all? You don't have backstory for dire wolves, do you?

Because it's fun trying to make sense out of this:

 

[Hussar]

Yeah, dire in this case is not referring to size.

 

[Savage Wombat]

Replace Dire Corby with Deep Crow.