Questions about monsters in pt. 3 of Doomsday dawn.
A shadow or greater shadow only has fly 30 as a mode of movement. It states under fly action that if you do not use a fly action you fall. Since the earth does not represent an obstacle to an incorporeal creature, any round I do not use a fly action, the shadow falls 1500 feet into the earth.
So this appears that if I don't want to fall out out combat, I must burn an action every round on a fly action. Is this the intention?
Fly(Move) Requirements You have a fly Speed.
You move through the air up to your fly Speed. Moving upward (straight up or diagonally) counts as traveling through difficult terrain. You can move straight down 10 feet for every 5 feet of movement you spend. If you fly to the ground, you don’t take falling damage. You can use an action to Fly 0 feet to hover in place. If you’re airborne at the end of your turn and didn’t use a Fly action this round, you fall.
Also, If I just use a fly action to hover, it has the move property and this would trigger an attack of opportunity? (See Italicized)
ATTACK OF OPPORTUNITY
(Fighter) Trigger A creature within your reach uses a manipulate action or a move action, makes a ranged attack, or leaves a square during a move action it’s using.
Make a melee Strike against the triggering creature at a –2 penalty. If the attack hits and the trigger was a manipulate action, you disrupt that action. This Strike doesn’t count toward your multiple attack penalty, and your multiple attack penalty doesn’t apply to it.