Bestiary‎ > ‎(Bestiary) By Type‎ > ‎Animals‎ > ‎Dinosaur‎ > ‎

Dinosaur, Deinonychus

This brightly colored dinosaur exudes a dangerous ferocity. Each foot is armed with a large, sickle-shaped claw.
Deinonychus CR 3

XP 800
N Medium animal
Init +6; Senses low-light vision, scent; Perception +14

 DEFENSE

AC 15, touch 12, flat-footed 13 (+2 Dex, +3 natural)
hp 34 (4d8+16)
Fort +8, Ref +6, Will +2

 OFFENSE

Speed 60 ft.
Melee 2 talons +5 (1d8+2), bite +5 (1d6+2), foreclaws +0 (1d4+1)
Special Attacks pounce

 STATISTICS

Str 15, Dex 15, Con 19, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 14
Base Atk +3; CMB +5; CMD 17
Feats Improved Initiative, Run
Skills Acrobatics +10 (+22 jump), Perception +14, Stealth +15; Racial Modifiers +8 Acrobatics, +8 Perception, +8 Stealth

Image courtesy Wikipedia

Lore

Characters with ranks in Knowledge (nature) can learn more about dinosaurs. When a character makes a successful skill check, the following lore is revealed, including the information from lower DCs.

Knowledge (Nature)

DC Result
13 This vicious looking predator is a deinonychus, an ancient reptilian beast of the group known as dinosaurs. This result reveals all animal traits.

18 Deinonychus, also incorrectly known as velociraptors (which are in fact much smaller creatures), are very fast for reptiles, and this speed combined with their razor sharp talons, nasty bite and ability to leap in to combat to deliver a deadly initial attack make them a very dangerous opponent.

23 Perhaps even more worrying than the deinonychus' array of natural weaponry is its intelligence. Most dinosaurs are quite simple minded creatures, but these reptiles have large and advanced animal brains and often hunt in packs with cunning tactics.


Monster Lore from WOTC Community Forums - Monsters and Races - Monster Lore Compendium. Copyright 2007-2008, Author: Evandar_TAybara
 ECOLOGY

Environment warm forests
Organization solitary, pair, or pack (3–12)
Treasure none

As swift and agile as it is deadly, the deinonychus is a pack hunter, running with several of its kind to take down prey and rip it apart with their gutting talons.

You can apply the young simple template to create statistics for smaller, more agile velociraptors. Conversely, you can either increase the deinonychus to Large size and its Hit Dice to 8 or simply apply the giant and advanced simple templates to create a formidable megaraptor.

Section 15: Copyright Notice

Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, © 2009, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Author: Jason Bulmahn, based on material by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams.