Dire Swan?


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Hello good people :)

OK, so I was talking with my group the other day about character ideas and different stuff, and they started joking about if I made a halfling cavalier or a paladin, I should have him ride a giant Swan for a mount.

This got me thinking, hehe :D
I'm gonna start him off riding a boar (joining the party at level 4), but I was wondering about the feasibility of creating some kind of medium sized Dire Swan to get for a new mount at a level where flying isn't broken?
The only real problems with this plan are:

#1 There are no stats for swans or any really comparable bird in the monster's manual (The closest you get is an eagle).

#2 There are no "dire" templates. The closest you get is the simple template "Giant", which would be cool I guess, but dire is way more awesome! :P

So, uhm, what I was wondering was, anyone feel like suggesting how one would go about creating a dire Swan? :D
(Or if not dire, then at least some kind of medium sized swan)

Cheers!
Cilveran

Grand Lodge

How about this?


Provos wrote:
How about this?

Wahey!

Thanks mate :) I only checked d20pfsrd.com myself, and couldn't find any templates there, but yes, my DM might accept a 3.5 edition template :)
Now, to find the base statistics of a swan...

Grand Lodge

Close as I can find is from 3.5e

Swan: CR 1/3; Small Animal; HD 1d8; hp 4; Init +2; Spd 10 ft.,fly 60 ft. (average); AC 14 (+1 size, +2 Dex, +1 natural), touch 13,
flat-footed 12; Atk +1 melee (1d3–1, 2 slams) and –4 melee
(1d2–1, bite); SQ damage reduction 5/cold iron; AL N; SV Fort
+2, Ref +4, Will +1; Str 8, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 6.
Skills and Feats: Listen +7, Spot +3; Alertness.

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