Frankly, I find birds a bit unsettling. What are they thinking behind those glassy eyes? Are they thinking at all? Polly wanna ... finger? When compiling monsters for Olde School Wizardry, I made sure to put a few avian species in: night swallows, the aquatic rhyfelwr, and timber raptors of course.
Every critter in the book has an accompanying scenario seed that showcases it. Here's one.
"The wizards have been tasked with chaperoning a class of third year Collegium Mysterium students on a week-long field expedition into the hinterland, ostensibly to promote their understanding of the various Tree Sciences within the Arboreal Schools, but more probably to give the faculty a bit of peace and quiet around the place following their overindulgence during the recent autumnal equinox festivities.
The group is deposited without ceremony near the overgrown ruin of a tower, deep within a pine wood.
It isn’t until sunset, by which time some of the half-trained student spellcasters have had ample opportunity to get themselves good and lost, that the hunting calls of timber raptors begin to echo through the wood."
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