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Monster Trove: Things Others Swore They Saw

Thunderbird

Gargantuan

About

The thunder is its wings and the lightning is its eyes, and the storm is not something it brings with it - the storm is what it looks like from underneath. It carries whales out of the sea in its claws when it wants to. It is not a monster in the sense of a thing to be gone and dealt with; it is closer to a season, and the people who live under its country plan around it, and have opinions about outsiders who talk about hunting it.

Stats

HP 240
AC 18
DR 3
Attacks 2
Attack: 3d8+6, 3d8+6

Save Rolls

Quick 3
Tough 4
Mind 2
Default Save TN (based on HP): 5

Traits

Alignment: Impartial Impartial (Wanderer)
Intelligence: High (13-14)
Magic Resistance: Weather magic cast at it is absorbed and returned as more weather. Nothing anyone has tried has made its storm smaller.
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Special Attack

It has two attacks each round and may spend either or both on Lightning, so a round may be two Talons, two Lightnings, or one of each. Lightning: 100 ft, save Dex Quick, fail save roll 3d8+6 lightning. Talons: slashing, melee 20 ft, +6 to hit, 3d8+6, and it takes things away rather than killing them where they stand.

Special Defense

The Storm Is It: within its weather, visibility is poor, footing is bad, flight is impossible for anything else, and ranged attacks are at Disadvantage. This is not a spell and cannot be dispelled or waited out. Immune to lightning and thunder. Not an Enemy: it has no quarrel with anyone and does not initiate, and a party that shelters and lets it pass is not touched. Reduced to 0 HP it falls, the weather goes with it, and the DN should decide what the country does about that, because the people who live there will have views.

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