Dodo

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CR 1/4

N Small Animal

Initiative: +0 Senses: low-light vision; Perception +3

This plump, gray, flightless bird waddles about on ungainly legs, fearlessly bobbing its prodigious beak.

Defense

AC: 11, touch 11, flat-footed 11 (+1 size)

HP: 6 1d8+2

Fortitude: +4 Reflex: +2 Will: -1

Offense

Speed: 20 ft.

Melee: bite +0 (1d3-2)

Statistics

Str 7, Dex 11, Con 14, Int 2, Wis 9, Cha 6

Base Attack: +0 CMB: -3 CMD: 7

Feats: Weapon Focus (Bite)

Skills: Perception +3

Ecology

Environment: warm coastlines and plains

Organization: solitary, pair, or huddle (3–6)

Treasure: none

Special Abilities

Familiar The master of a dodo familiar gains +4 bonus on Initiative checks.

These flightless birds typically inhabit isolated tropical islands and coastlines that are devoid of predators and other creatures that might kill them to use as a resource. Dodos’ size and unfamiliarity with natural dangers contribute to a kind of boldness in their species—or what some would call stupidity—causing them to bumble into precarious situations and making them easy targets for other creatures that are on the prowl for a tasty meal. The birds can all too easily be caught and slain, and while their meat has a most unpleasant taste, few starving, shipwrecked sailors would turn such a providential meal down.