To kinda go along with your comments, Zefhyr, harpies ARE fairly unintelligent. An Intelligence Score of 7 (-2) does not indicate that they are super tactical.

That said, because I know I'll hear this argument, not all harpies have to be Intelligence 7. Maybe there're smarter harpies somewhere who think, "Hey. We have wings. Let's fly and throw rocks instead of getting up close and attacking people with our clubs and claws."

Whatever. The point is that SO many creatures in BG3 seem to be special like that. None act the way their race is designed, and THAT is my main point. SO many things are not normal based on established lore and stats. Thus, the game doesn't seem really like D&D at all or like Forgotten Realms. Again, for those of us who have played CRPGs like Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, and even the old Pool of Radiance games, BG3 seems like a totally different world with totally different monsters and totally different LOTS of things. It is foreign to me.

Is it fun? Yeah. Sure. I wouldn't still be out here if I didn't enjoy the game. I have to keep saying this because people seem to think I hate the game as is. No. Don't hate it. Love it, actually. Addicted to it. Obviously. Wouldn't be out here if I wasn't.

But it is totally foreign. It kinda looks like a Forgotten Realms game. It kinda seems like it WANTS to be a Forgotten Realms game. But it doesn't act like one because there are just too many abnormal things about it.

Harpies are just yet another example added to the Phase Spiders, Intellect Devourers, Wood Woads, Mud Mephits, and SO Much more.