Just wondering about some crow themed monsters. Harpy and kenku come to mind as options. Corvids from White Wolf could be there. Others?
Carrionstorm!!!
Just wondering about some crow themed monsters. Harpy and kenku come to mind as options. Corvids from White Wolf could be there. Others?
Deepcrow!
Tengu
Rakshasha might have crow features
Vrock, demon.. well it is a birdman thing..
An imp or Quasit, can transform into a crow I think..
Remember that wizards and sorcerers can have ravens as familiars. The familiar of a high-level wizard can be fairly intelligent in its own right. So you can have your creepy talking raven encounters straight out of the core rules.
Ravenloft, even having in the name, is drowning in this stuff. A lot of raven monsters (oddly enough, mostly good) got writeups for 3.X in the various White Wolf/Swords and Sorcery Ravenloft stuff licensed from WotC.
They include:
Dire Raven: animal Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume 1
the Ravenkin: Neutral Good, tiny raven humanoids (Denizens of Dread (3.5) or Denizens of Darkness (3.0)
Wereraven: a NG lycanthrope, (Denizens of Dread/Darkness)
Also, consider that a swarm of ravens might make for a potentially fearsome low-level opponent. Think Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Birds". I believe there is one such writeup (known as the Swarm of Fury) in Green Ronin's Bleeding Edge adventure (3.5) "Dark Wings over Freeport". There was in fact an overall raven theme of that adventure.
Although not a crow itself, but somewhat peripherally related to the conversation is the animate scarecrow, usually worked as a golem-like construct of some sort. There's a golem like one in Necromancer Games' Tome of Horrors (it also got included in Kingmaker #2, IIRC), and there's also one that operates as a spirit of vengeance in Denizens of Dread/Darkness.
The subject of the creepy/monstrous raven (and related birds) has been used frequently enough that it got its own trope on TV Tropes- You can look at the following web page for more inspiration: Ravens and Crows
Thanks for the replies so far, and thanks for James coming in with the specific plug.
Written for 3.0, but...
A crow monster?
Brandon Lee!
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We've got official deep crow stats for Pathfinder in PF #16, for those interested. It's one of two monsters we've done that aren't open content, so PF #16 is pretty much the only place to get that version of the beastie...
DEEP CROW!
Oh noooooo!
We had the bad fortune of facing it in our Second Darkness campaign. Truly a magnificent, if terrifying, beast.
Just wondering about some crow themed monsters. Harpy and kenku come to mind as options. Corvids from White Wolf could be there. Others?
You could also check out the Planescape setting, specifically the second monster compendium, for the simpathetic (sp?) and the wastrel (there might've been another corvid-type monster in there too, but I don't have my books from AD&D 2nd Ed. with me, so I could be mistaken...).
<shrug>
Both were corvids that were VERY bad (ate your soul &/or brought "horde-loads" of misfortune respectively, I think...).
Hope that helps.
-- C.
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Just wondering about some crow themed monsters. Harpy and kenku come to mind as options. Corvids from White Wolf could be there. Others?You could also check out the Planescape setting, specifically the second monster compendium, for the simpathetic (sp?) and the wastrel (there might've been another corvid-type monster in there too, but I don't have my books from AD&D 2nd Ed. with me, so I could be mistaken...).
<shrug>
Both were corvids that were VERY bad (ate your soul &/or brought "horde-loads" of misfortune respectively, I think...).
Hope that helps.
-- C.
The Simpathetic was redone for 3.5 in Dragon #351 in the Ecsatsy article by Todd Stewart.
--Vrock-a-doodle-doo
