Armor Class
12
Hit Points
1
(1d4 - 1)
Speed
10 ft., fly 50 ft.
STR
2
(-4)
DEX
14
(+2)
CON
8
(-1)
INT
2
(-4)
WIS
12
(+1)
CHA
6
(-2)
Skills
Perception +3
Senses
Passive Perception 13
Languages
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Challenge
0 (10 XP)
Proficiency Bonus
+2
Mimicry. The raven can mimic simple sounds it has heard, such as a person whispering, a baby crying, or an animal chittering. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are imitations with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Insight) check.
Actions
Beak. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage.
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Posted Dec 9, 2021A small creature occupies a 5 ft. square on the battlefield. A tiny creature occupies just 2.5 ft. squared. I think a raven being "tiny" makes perfect sense.
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Posted Jan 19, 2022Children, halflings and most dogs are small. Cats and anything smaller are tiny. And sure ravens have wingspan but I'm not sure I'd count that, maybe I'd say they occupy the space of a small creature while they're flying.
Because it has +4 to hit, which would be consistent with +2 from dex and +2 from proficiency. This makes it one of the deadliest 0 cr monsters besides commoners and poison things, because most of them have +0 to hit. With this statblock, 2 or 3 ravens would have a good chance of killing a commoner.
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Posted Feb 19, 2022Int 2 seems low, but Wis 14 is crazy high. Giant weasels have Int 4 and Wis 12, and gnolls have Int 6 and Wis 10. Doesn't help that Wis and Int aren't that well defined. Low Int is easier to overcome with a headband or Awaken, which can only be used on a max 3 Int. Wish they would say if mimicry would allow an awakened raven to talk.
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Posted May 19, 2022yes.
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Posted May 28, 2022True! There are numerous documentaries that illustrate that ravens are highly intelligent. I house rule them higher.
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Posted Jun 27, 2022No Int is remembering things and speaking. wisdom is practical intelligence. It should have more wisdom tho
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Posted Jul 17, 2022I like how ravens are literally as smart as 7 year old children in problem solving cases, have literally the textbook definition of high intelligence, can remember even simple or unimportant things beyond short term memory for months without fail, and have irl intelligence comparable to great apes and us human people, but they get 2 int in-game. To be clear, a creature with 2 int can't remember most things beyond short term memory, will often simply disobey what its memories would direct it to do because it physically can't remember that many things at once, and even the most cooperative of 2 int creatures even in-game take a lifetime to train basic tasks and selective thinking. Most creatures you'd consider 2 int irl completely lack so many mental facilities that they do things like eat themselves to death solely because their brains don't understand a concept beyond "this good, do it." To say that 2 int creatures irl lack emotional sophistication is to even assume that they understand anything beyond simple yes and no, and is a severe over-estimation of their intelligence.
Ravens have time and time again shown not just the emotional capacity to grieve and understand the concept of death and its consequences, with some allegedly committing s*icide if they deem it fit, but also the intelligence to overcome their feelings and use that creature's cause of death as a tool to get something or learn from and avoid it. On multiple occasions, they've shown deep understanding of not just tools, but compound tools up to 5 individual structures in total, and show great understanding of delayed gratification, something even some humans will never fully comprehend, and something almost every other animal in existence will never begin to comprehend.
Ravens, crows, and pretty much any bird within the Corvid family should be at least 4 int, and ravens and crows should be at least 6 int, if not 7 or 8. Their intelligence is easily comparable to great apes and humans in many regards, and their emotional, memorizational, and problem solving abilities would aid in that reasoning according to DnD's intelligence definition.
To be clear how odd this is, the crocodile is 2 int; many veteran crocodile and alligator handlers know the dangers of even being near one, where if you're in the water with even a trained alligator you should never turn your back on it or seem like easy prey because they think that all they see, being just your head and likely your shoulders, is your entire body. There are plenty of stories of crocodiles and alligators rupturing organs because of overeating, or vomiting because they overeat, then eating the vomit immediately. To be clear, this is likely because they are physically incapable of seeing food as anything other than "thing to eat" because they lack the cognitive ability to discern things beyond "do" and "don't." This even somewhat disproved my personal theory of creatures losing their appetite if they vomit no matter the circumstance in order to avoid re-ingesting the thing they vomited and starting the cycle over again.
Ravens having the mimicry ability would be dumb if they hat 2 int as well. A creature with 2 int simply shouldn't be able to understand the concept of mimicry or any of its purposes unless specifically evolved to do so, and the birds that use mimicry distinctly use it as an adaptive tool that they understand and learn to use. When shown mirrors, while they seemed to not recognize themselves, they were able to use it to find hidden food, which shows that they know it reflects objects in the real world; they additionally are known to be able to ponder their own thoughts and fully understand the concepts they know, as well as understand the world as it is in real time, rather than simply reacting to stimulus with an evolved or learned behavior. This is something that only an incredibly select few animals in the world can comprehend.
Overall buff birb int/10
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Posted Aug 16, 2022how the f did they give a crow the int of 2
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Posted Jun 28, 2023Yes. why are one of the most inteligent animals still low int
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Posted Aug 17, 2023I agree. Ik this is an old post, but then again, as my favourite saying goes: “Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.” -Kaz Brekker.
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Posted Oct 21, 2023I really want a raven familiar that can say "Nevermore." Would that fall under mimicry?
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Posted Nov 2, 2023These stupid birds can spawn as dead birds
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Posted Nov 8, 2023This is wrong. They are different but both Corvus.
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Posted Nov 20, 2023Ravens should have 6-8 intelligence minimum
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Posted Feb 7, 2024Is there any way for me to make this a pet?
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Posted Feb 10, 2024Assim como lobos e gatos, por algum motivo corvos nĂŁo tem visĂŁo noturna na 5e hahaha!
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Posted Apr 26, 2024Yes, you can take find familiar by either being a wizard (for find familiar), being a druid (by using wild companion for find familiar) or taking a strixhaven background and taking find familiar as your first level spell. There is also using it as a sidekick from TCOE rules, but that's at DM discretion
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Posted May 17, 2024Thank god someone else said it.
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Posted Jul 20, 2024i think they should have at least at 8 and at highest a 10. they are as smart as human 7 year olds
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Posted Jul 20, 2024not a fiction thing. they are just smart