Aggressive. As a bonus action, the turkey can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.
Bad Flier. The turkey falls at the end of a turn if it’s airborne and the only thing holding it aloft is its flying speed.
Keen Sight. The turkey has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Multiattack. The turkey makes two attacks: one with its beak and one with its talons. It can use its Swallow instead of its beak.
Beak. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d6 + 6) piercing damage. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 17). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the turkey can't make beak attacks against other targets.
Talons. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d8 + 6) slashing damage.
Swallow. The turkey makes one beak attack against a Medium or smaller target it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, and it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the turkey. At the start of each of the turkey's turns, a swallowed creature takes 10 (3d6) acid damage, and the turkey regains a number of hit points equal to half the acid damage dealt.
If the turkey takes 15 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it, the turkey must succeed on a DC 21 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone in a space within 10 feet of the turkey. If the turkey dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse by using 15 feet of movement, exiting prone.
Description
A dire turkeys is a tyrannosaurus-sized turkey that is either created by magic, or arises naturally at harvest time in areas with concentrated primal energies, such those touched by the Feywild.
Self-Stuffing Gobbler. A dire turkey is driven by an insatiable hunger, and exists only to consume everything in its path. Left unchecked, a dire turkey can decimate a region's food supply, endangering entire populations, who now no longer have enough food to last the coming winter.
Weighty on the Wing. Though capable of flight, dire turkey's great weight makes it a much weaker flyer than normal turkey. In addition, most, if not all, of a dire turkey's food sources are found on the ground, and any moment spent in flight is a moment away from anything edible, making it even more hesitant to take wing.
Bountiful Feast. A fully grown dire turkey stands 20 feet tall and weighs 30,000 pounds on average, two-thirds of which is harvestable meat. Slaying one yields enough meat to comfortably feed over 200 people for an entire season, or up to 500 people if the meat is carefully rationed.
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