ability_mods: cha_mod: 3 con_mod: 7 dex_mod: 3 int_mod: 3 str_mod: 8 wis_mod: 5 ac: 31 ac_special: null alignment: N automatic_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: 100 feet. The thunderbird is surrounded by a cyclone of wind and driving rain. This area is greater difficult terrain for flying creatures, who must successfully __Maneuver in Flight__ (DC 27) or be blown 30 feet away from the thunderbird. Creatures on the ground must succeed at a DC 27 Reflex save to perform any __move__ action and are knocked __prone__ on a critical failure. The driving rain in the storm aura imposes a -2 circumstance penalty on Perception checks and extinguishes smaller flames. A thunderbird can deactivate or activate the storm aura as a free action with the __concentrate__ trait. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Storm Aura range: null raw_description: '**Storm Aura** (__air__, __aura__, __evocation__, __primal__, __water__) 100 feet. The thunderbird is surrounded by a cyclone of wind and driving rain. This area is greater difficult terrain for flying creatures, who must successfully __Maneuver in Flight__ (DC 27) or be blown 30 feet away from the thunderbird. Creatures on the ground must succeed at a DC 27 Reflex save to perform any __move__ action and are knocked __prone__ on a critical failure. The driving rain in the storm aura imposes a -2 circumstance penalty on Perception checks and extinguishes smaller flames. A thunderbird can deactivate or activate the storm aura as a free action with the __concentrate__ trait.' requirements: null success: null traits: - air - aura - evocation - primal - water trigger: null - action_cost: Reaction critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: null effect: A lightning bolt dancing on the thunderbird's body leaps onto the creature, dealing 8d6 electricity damage (DC 30 basic Reflex save). effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Reactive Shock range: null raw_description: '**Reactive Shock [Reaction]** **Trigger** A creature enters the thunderbird''s reach or uses a __move__ action within their reach; **Effect** A lightning bolt dancing on the thunderbird''s body leaps onto the creature, dealing 8d6 electricity damage (DC 30 basic Reflex save).' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: A creature enters the thunderbird's reach or uses a __move__ action within their reach description: 'Thunderbirds bring storms on their wings. In times of drought, they are welcomed. Other times, they are offered gifts in hopes they might leave before flooding begins. When angered, they call down hurricanes and lay waste to entire villages, so many settlements conduct extensive rites to appease and honor local thunderbirds. Thunderbird parents carry their newly hatched offspring to hidden mountaintop nests, where the young are struck by their first bolts of lightning and learn the mysteries of the storm. **__Recall Knowledge - Beast__ (__Arcana__, __Nature__)**: DC 30' hp: 200 hp_misc: null immunities: - electricity items: null knowledge_checks: dc: 30 skills: - Arcana - Nature languages: - Auran - Common level: 11 melee: - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 2d6+12 type: piercing name: beak plus_damage: - formula: 3d6 type: electricity to_hit: 24 traits: null - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 2d8+12 type: slashing name: talon plus_damage: null to_hit: 24 traits: - agile name: Thunderbird perception: 22 proactive_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: 'DC 30; **8th** __control weather__ (does not require secondary casters) ' effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Rituals range: null raw_description: '**Rituals** DC 30; **8th** __control weather__ (does not require secondary casters) ' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null - action_cost: Two Actions critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: The thunderbird spreads their wings and blasts their foe with thunderous bolts of lightning. Each creature in a 30-foot emanation takes 6d6 electricity damage and 6d6 sonic damage (DC 30 basic Reflex save). The thunderbird can't use Lightning Blast for 1d4 rounds. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Lightning Blast range: null raw_description: '**Lightning Blast** [Two Actions] (__evocation__, __primal__) The thunderbird spreads their wings and blasts their foe with thunderous bolts of lightning. Each creature in a 30-foot emanation takes 6d6 electricity damage and 6d6 sonic damage (DC 30 basic Reflex save). The thunderbird can''t use Lightning Blast for 1d4 rounds.' requirements: null success: null traits: - evocation - primal trigger: null - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: A thunderbird can move in wind with ease. They don't treat wind as difficult terrain or need to __Maneuver in Flight__ in high winds. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Stormflight range: null raw_description: '**Stormflight** A thunderbird can move in wind with ease. They don''t treat wind as difficult terrain or need to __Maneuver in Flight__ in high winds.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: A creature that takes damage from a thunderbird's thunderbolt Strike must succeed at a DC 28 Fortitude save or be knocked __prone__ and __deafened__ for 1 round. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Thunderstrike range: null raw_description: '**Thunderstrike** A creature that takes damage from a thunderbird''s thunderbolt Strike must succeed at a DC 28 Fortitude save or be knocked __prone__ and __deafened__ for 1 round.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null ranged: - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 3d6 type: electricity and 3d6 sonic name: thunderbolt plus_damage: - formula: null type: thunderstrike to_hit: 23 traits: - range 200 feet rarity: Uncommon resistances: - amount: 10 type: sonic ritual_lists: null saves: fort: 24 fort_misc: null misc: null ref: 20 ref_misc: null will: 22 will_misc: null sense_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: Wind, precipitation, and clouds don't impair a thunderbird's vision; it ignores the __concealed__ condition from storms, mist, precipitation, and the like. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Stormsight range: null raw_description: '**Stormsight** Wind, precipitation, and clouds don''t impair a thunderbird''s vision; it ignores the __concealed__ condition from storms, mist, precipitation, and the like.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null senses: - Perception +22 - darkvision - stormsight size: Gargantuan skills: - bonus: 22 misc: null name: 'Acrobatics ' - bonus: 23 misc: null name: 'Athletics ' - bonus: 20 misc: null name: 'Intimidation ' - bonus: 20 misc: null name: 'Nature ' source: - abbr: Bestiary 2 page_start: 259 page_stop: null speed: - amount: 25 type: Land - amount: 80 type: fly spell_lists: null traits: - Uncommon - N - Gargantuan - Air - Beast - Electricity type: Creature weaknesses: null