Monsters / Cockatrice
Cockatrice
CR 3 - 800 XP - N Small Magical Beast
Stat block
AC15 (touch 15, flat-footed 11)HP27 (5d10)SavesFort +4, Ref +7, Will +2Meleebite +9 (1d4-2 plus petrification)Speed20 ft., fly 60 ft. (poor)AbilitiesStr 6, Dex 17, Con 11, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 8BAB / CMB / CMD+5 / +2 / 16Sensesdarkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +10Environmenttemperate plains
Combat brain - every behavior cites its line (4 rules)
Built only from this entry: stat-block special attacks, the printed Int score, the creature type, its feats and senses, and the behavioral prose of its own description. Nothing invented - an uncited behavior is a test failure.
territorial (from lore)
While their diet consists primarily of seeds and petrified insects (which conveniently double in the creature's gizzard as both gastroliths and nutrition as they grind...
While their diet consists primarily of seeds and petrified insects (which conveniently double in the creature's gizzard as both gastroliths and nutrition as they grind...
flee-when-hurt (from lore)
For unknown reasons, cockatrices are both terrified of and enraged by conventional roosters, and are equally likely to flee or attack when confronted by one.
For unknown reasons, cockatrices are both terrified of and enraged by conventional roosters, and are equally likely to flee or attack when confronted by one.
skirmisher (from abilities)
abilities: Dex 17 over Str 6 - strike and slip away, never trade full attacks
abilities: Dex 17 over Str 6 - strike and slip away, never trade full attacks
night-hunter (from senses)
senses: darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +10 - hunts where prey is blind
senses: darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +10 - hunts where prey is blind
From the entry
A cockatrice's bite causes flesh to calcify and harden-multiple bites can cause a living creature to fossilize into stone. Each time a creature is damaged by a cockatrice's bite attack, it must succeed on a DC 12 Fortitude save or take 1d4 points of Dexterity damage as its flesh and bones stiffen and harden. (This slow petrification does not alter a bitten creature's natural armor.) A creature that is reduced to 0 Dexterity by a cockatrice's bites immediately turns completely to stone, as if petrified by a flesh to stone spell. Every day, a creature petrified by a cockatrice in this manner can attempt a new DC 12 Fortitude save to recover from the petrification, at which point the victim returns to flesh with 1 Dexterity (and thereafter can be restored to full Dexterity by natural healing or magic as normal)-but after a petrified creature fails three of these Fortitude saves in a row,...