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===Author Notes===

This is a revision of a revision of the [[Harpy, Variant (3.5e Race)|variant harpy]] that I'd be tweaking for a long while and had in use on a single character. I'm cutting out the Captivating Song since I don't think in 5 years it ever really did make any difference in play and maybe came up all of once, serving only as feature bloat not something easily put on a character sheet anyway for how long it is. It was a weaker version of the SRD harpy ability anyhow. Probably better as a feat if anything.

Races with flight are inherently difficult to balance. I don't like the model raptoran-style flight. It's clunky and weird. Having scaling flight speed feels unnecessary to me on this case. 

Bird Affinity is probably one that could be tossed into the scrap heap as well. It is interesting, but not particularly necessary, and a leftover from the older revision. Maybe something about identifying bird calls easily? That's like, a Knowledge (nature) sort of thing and could end up being use-impaired.

Harpies (lore-wise) are bits of the odd-ducks. They hunt people and eat them. They're alluring sirens. Their descriptions are all over the place. Sometimes they're hideous flying hags with batwings and arms, other times they're odd mixes of humanoid and bird or whatever. I hate that the SRD gives them clubs. Like, flying monsters that have clubs... okay, why no bow or sling or spear or something? They're defeated by readied actions to swing as they swoop in for a fly-by attack, which is fine at their CR since characters are unlikely to have multiple attacks anyway.