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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8862494" data-attributes="member: 57383">Okay, now on to combat!I'm wondering whether to give it Dive like the third-party <a href="https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/pteranodon" target="_blank">Pteranodon</a>:Dive. If the pteranodon dives at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a Bite attack on the same turn, the target takes an additional 7 (2d6) piercing damage.You may want to add a note that if the pteranodon has a rider they need to make an Animal Handling or Athletics check to keep their balance, maybe:If a creature is riding the giant pteranodon when it dives, the rider must succeed at a DC 15 Dexterity (Athletics) check or a DC 15 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check or fall prone while remaining in their saddle. If the target fails the check by 5 or more, they impact knocks them off the pteranodon: the rider takes 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage and falls to the ground, landing prone in an unoccupied space adjacent to the target of the dive attack.Apart from that we just need to set the Bite damage. We'll set that to something appropriate for its target Challenge Rating.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8862494, member: 57383"] Okay, now on to combat! I'm wondering whether to give it Dive like the third-party [B][URL='https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/pteranodon']Pteranodon[/URL][/B]: [INDENT][I][B]Dive.[/B][/I] If the pteranodon dives at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a Bite attack on the same turn, the target takes an additional 7 (2d6) piercing damage.[/INDENT] You may want to add a note that if the pteranodon has a rider they need to make an Animal Handling or Athletics check to keep their balance, maybe: [INDENT]If a creature is riding the giant pteranodon when it dives, the rider must succeed at a DC 15 Dexterity (Athletics) check or a DC 15 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check or fall prone while remaining in their saddle. If the target fails the check by 5 or more, they impact knocks them off the pteranodon: the rider takes 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage and falls to the ground, landing prone in an unoccupied space adjacent to the target of the dive attack.[/INDENT] Apart from that we just need to set the [I][B]Bite[/B][/I] damage. We'll set that to something appropriate for its target Challenge Rating. [/QUOTE]

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