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Climate/Terrain: Any
Frequency: Very rare
Organization: Solitary
Activity Cycle: Any
Diet: Unknown
Intelligence: Genius (17-18)
Treasure: None
Alignment: Chaotic evil
No. Appearing: 1
Armor Class: -10
Move: Fl 24 (B)
Hit Dice: 5
THAC0: 15
No. of Attacks: 1
Damage/Attack: 1-2
Special Attacks: See below
Special Defenses: See below
Magic Resistance: 100%
Size: S (1'-2')
Morale: Fearless (19-20)
XP Value: 3,000
The Bird Of Ill-Omen appears as a normal Raven or Crow (Black in Color). This monster will only rarely provide anything useful to the party. However, until the party is rid of it, sufficient inconvenience will exist.
COMBAT: The bird is 100% magic resistant and if hard pressed can cause Confusion (per spell at level 15). The bird also generates a 100 foot sphere of saving throw reduction (-2). If a fumble chart is used, this has the effect of causing a fumble to occur on a 1, 2, or 3 on a die 20. It also uses ESP (per spell) at will.
HABITAT: The bird's purpose is not really known but it appears to wonder the Prime Material Plane in order to accompany typically high level adventurers on a particularly dangerous adventure. If spoken to, the bird will respond to the individual who spoke, in a language (other than common) that the individual understands (Dwarves will be spoken to in Dwarvish, Elves in Elvish, etc...).
ECOLOGY: The bird is master of lore and other histories in general and will know something about each of the party members that would not readily be common knowledge. Usually something that a particular adventurer is not very proud of. The bird will use this information to disrupt the cohesion and integrity of the party members and in general try to get them to distrust each other, sometimes to the point of fighting/killing. The bird will typically drop 3 or so hints about the advertures upcoming goal, and will mislead them on 2 of the 3 hints to the point where failure means death (or something almost as bad). The bird will never directly say what it's intentions are but it is rumored that it will go away if given a particularly exceptional gem or piece of jewelry valued at 50,000+ gold. Otherwise, it is perfectly content traveling with the party, flying between branches, etc... staying just out of reach, and generally causing havoc to the adventurers. The tail feathers and feet of the Bird Of Ill-Omen are rumored to be incredibly valuable in potion making. Any knowledgable Alchemist in a large city will pay over 100,000 GP for them.
Source: Pete

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