Poor Chocobo (3.5e Template)

Poor Chocobo
Summary::Chocobos of... less than spectacular ability. These are the runts and less powerful members of their species.

Poor chocobos have less stamina, strength, and intelligence than a regular chocobo, and especially than a wonderful chocobo.

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Creating a Poor Chocobo
Poor Chocobo is an inherited template applicable only to chocobos that do not have the Wonderful Chocobo template.

Size and Type
No size or type change.

Hit Dice
The chocobo's total HD and the benefits granted from them is reduced by 2.

Speed
A poor chocobo's base land speed is 50 ft., not 60 ft., per round. They lose the Chocobo Run ability.

Armor Class
The Chocobo's Natural Armor is reduced by 2.

Attack
The chocobo's standard attack is unaffected.

Full Attack
The chocobo's full attack is unaffected.

Special Attacks
The chocobo loses the Chocobuckle ability. The chocobo gains the Lesser Chocobuckle ability, which functions as the Chocobuckle ability, except that it can only be used as a full attack action.

The chocobo's Choco Cure ability (if it has it) is replaced by Lesser Chocobo Cure, which functions as the Choco Cure ability except that it instead heals only 2d8 + one third the Chocobo's new HD.

If the Chocobo has Choco Acid, Choco Bolt, Choco Frost, Choco Meteor, or Choco Screech, those ability are replaced by their Lesser counterpart, which function exactly the same way except that they deal only 1d8 + one third the chocobo's new HD.

Special Qualities
If a chocobo has Spell Resistance, the chocobo gains a &minus;2 racial bonus to their spell resistance.

If a chocobo has Damage Reduction, that damage reduction retains its type but is reduced by 5 to a minimum of 0.

A poor chocobo loses its Low-light vision.

Abilities
A poor chocobo's Strength, Dexterity, and Wisdom each decrease by 2.

Skills
A poor chocobo gains a -2 racial penalty on jump checks.

Feats
A poor chocobo does not gain or lose any feats, except as appropriate for it new number of Hit Dice.

Environment
As a normal chocobo of its kind.

Organization
As a normal chocobo of its kind.

Challenge Rating
The challenge rating of a poor chocobo decreases by 2.

Treasure
Regular Coins, No Items, No Goods.

Alignment
Always Neutral. Which is as normal for the base chocobo.

Advancement
As normal for the base chocobo.

Level Adjustment
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