Beast Forms (sage ability)
Beast Forms is an amateur-status sage ability that enables the character to recognize and identify beasts — creatures that have unnatural animal forms that are often magical in nature. This identification includes the name of the beast, the visual threats it imposes and it's general behaviour and motives.
"Visual threats" include knowing the number of attacks the beast has per round, the beast's armour class, obvious attacks such as breath weapon or charging, it's weight and its number of hit dice. While some of this information is anachronistic to the player's character, what matters is that the character is able to act on real information — much of it being known through seeing the beast move and time spent studying and hearing legends about the beast, which cannot be managed in game time.
Threats that arn't are those intrinsic to the creature but not visually evident — for example, it's magic resistance, natural immunities.
This knowledge does not include any special attacks or defenses the beast possesses, nor its magic resistance, except in cases where the beast's primary magical power is famous, such as the basilisk or medusa.
