Monster Specification

Cockatrices

Cockatrice

Typical Monster Level ("ML"): 4 to 6

Typical Number Encountered: d4/2 FRD

Usual Alignment(s): E/C, E/N

Description: giant grey chicken with dragon-like legs and tail

Habitat: Dungeons, Green Areas, Wilderness Areas, Ethereal and Astral Planes

Language: none

Chars: Co 3d6+3, Wp 2d4

Movement:

Rate Melee Travelling
Walk 3 ft/sec 2 mph
Scuttle 5 ft/sec 3.5 mph
Bound 7 ft/sec 4.5 mph
Charge 10 ft/sec n/a

Can also Fly at up to 12 ft/sec = 72 ft/MR = 8 mph

Fighter Abilities:

ML/3, FRU AMR    D = 25 + (5ML) %    RD = 5 + (5ML) %    5 + (5ML) HP

Attack Modes:

Claw @ A = 8ML %, DAM = d6 + Stoning

Peck @ A = 10ML %, DAM = 2d4 + Stoning

Tail @ A = 8ML %, DAM = d8 + Stoning

HitLoc Table:

HitLoc Area

Front

Side

Rear

Head

01 to 25

01 to 15

n/a

Neck

26 to 50

16 to 37

n/a

Wings (*2)

51 to 75

38 to 75

01 to 30

Legs (*2)

76 to 100

76 to 90

n/a
Body  n/a 91 to 120 31 to 60

Tail

[-14 to 0]

121 to 150

61 to 100

ADS:

HitLoc Area

 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

Head

 3 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 4 3

Neck

 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 2

Wings

 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Legs

 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 4
Body  3 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 3

Tail

 3 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 3 3

Effects of Specific Damage:

Hit Loc Area %age HP Damage taken Effects
Head 15% Unconscious, Co check vs Death
  30% Death (if conscious continues fighting with Claws / Tail for 2d6 secs)
 Neck 30% Co check vs Neck Broken (= Death, but continues fighting with Claws / Tail for 2d6 secs)
  60% Co check vs Neck Severed (= Death, but continues fighting with Claws / Tail for 2d6 secs)
  90% Neck Severed (= Death, but continues fighting with Claws / Tail for 2d6 secs)
Wings (*2) 30% Co check vs Wing Crippled
  60% Wing Crippled (spirals to ground), Co check vs Wing Severed
  90% Wing Severed (plummets to ground)
Legs (*2) 20% Co check vs Leg Crippled
  40% Leg Crippled, Co check vs Leg Severed
  60% Leg Severed
Body 75% Incapacitated, Co check vs Death, Bleed 5%/min, Co check vs Bleed 5%/MR
  150% Death
Tail 25% Co check vs Tail Crippled
  50% Tail Crippled, Co check vs Tail Severed
  75% Tail Severed

Bleeding effects from Crippling, Severance and Decapitation are as for People.

Thievish Abilities:

none

Other Abilities / Powers / Notes:

  1. Stoning by touch (must score a hit, but does not need to penetrate armour or shield): Flesh to Stone @ BTS 10ML% (Co).  The effect of Stoning is as per the Elementalist Flesh to Stone Spell (Earth version).
  2. Immune to Stoning
  3. Saliva (which can expel or withhold at will) has a Stone to Flesh effect upon flesh previously turned to stone.  They therefore use their Stoning ability to capture and store their prey, to be consumed later, bit by bit.
  4. Exist simultaneously on the Real, Ethereal and Astral Planes.

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