Hello there I'm designing a Halfling Beast Rider Cavalier that will be riding a Diatryma, the smaller version of an Axe Beak, but it seems like there's no stat block for such a creature.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/animals/axe-beak/diatryma
Is there any way to make it into a druid animal companion? Possibly one that starts as a Small creature and advances to become Medium at lvl. 4?
I don't really want to Take a regular axe beak and prevent it from growing to Large because Sudden Charge is such an amazing ability. Any advice on how to make this work would be much appreciated.
All logic says that it should grow to Large and obtain the typical stat changes at level 7.
All logic says that it should grow to Large and obtain the typical stat changes at level 7.
Well the druid companion states that a regular Axe Beak starts Medium but increases to Large at level 4, I'm looking to see if I can customize it to start off as small and advance to Medium at level 4. I just don't want to have a large mount for my Halfling Cavalier but still get the advancement bonuses aside from the +2 to Dex and Con.
Ok using the Monster Advancement Rules I've come up with this solution:
Axe Beak, Diatryma:
Starting Statistics:
Size: Small
Speed: 40 ft
Attacks: Bite (1d4+ 1 ½ Str)
Ability Scores:
Strength: 6 Dexterity: 19 Constitution: 10 Intelligence: 2 Wisdom: 11 Charisma: 10
Special Qualities: Low Light Vision
4th Level Advancement:
Size: Medium
Speed: 50ft
Attacks: Bite (1d6+ 1 ½ Str)
Ability Scores Str +4 Dex -2 Con +2
Special Abilities: Sudden Charge
This basically just reduces all of the Medium Axe Beak's stats to a small creature, allowing it to advance normally at level 4 up to the stats of a level 1 regular axe beak + sudden charge.
I do not think this is overstepping the bounds pf the rules and I hope other players will find this useful in making a Halfling Chocobo Knight :)
You can take the option for the axe beak that allows you to keep the size medium and gain +2 Dex, +2 Con instead. Then you could continue to ride it.
You can take the option for the axe beak that allows you to keep the size medium and gain +2 Dex, +2 Con instead. Then you could continue to ride it.
Yeah but then I would lose out on Sudden Charge, which honestly sweetens the deal for me.