Winged Animal (D&D Creature)

Unofficial rules compendium

Winged animals are variations of normal animals that have wings and can fly. Their origin tends to be in remote and magical locales. Often bred as pets for magicians and the rich, winged animals are hard to breed but fetch excellent prices as pets and potential familiars.

Winged animals are no more intelligent than normal animals of their type, and they take to training similarly.

The cost of a winged animal is generally ten times the cost of an ordinary animal of its type.

Creating a Winged Animal

"Winged animal" is an inherent template that can be added to any animal of Small size or smaller that cannot normally fly (referred to hereafter as the base creature).

Size and Type

The creature retains its type and subtype. It uses all the base creature’s statistics and special abilities except as noted here.

Speed

Winged animals have wings that grant a fly speed of 20 ft. (good). If the base creature has multiple movement rates, it keeps only one, the fastest one. If several speed ratings are equal,, retain them in this order; lang speed, swim speed, climb speed. Any movement rate the creature has is reduced by 10 ft., to a minimum of 20 ft.