D&D General The Owlbear Druid: How Would You Do It? (A Poll)

[CleverNickName]

By now, most of us have seen the trailer for "Honor Among Thieves," the new D&D movie. In this trailer, the tiefling druid Doric (played by Sophia Lillis) uses the Wild Shape ability to transform into a friggin' owlbear! (It's at the 1:11 mark, in case you wanna see it again.)

The Internet being what it is, people immediately took this idea and ran a dozen different directions with it. Druids aren't allowed to transform into owlbears, you see, at least according to the rules as-written. It's apparent that the filmmakers took some creative license with the rules. But that didn't stop thousands of geeks, myself included, from gushing about how it could be done in their home games. Some folks would create a whole new druid subclass, others would just make a simple change to the wildshape rules. A few others have suggested changing the owlbear itself.

So how would you do it, for your gaming group? There are no wrong answers.

EDIT: Ah crud. In the poll options, I typed "to allow all Beasts" in a couple of options, when I should have typed "allow all Monstrosities." Sorry about that; change your votes if necessary.

 

[Steampunkette]

I already wrote it about 3 months* ago. And it will be published in EN5ider in the coming months. I can't spill -too- many details, but... yup.

*My last edit was on April 21st

 

[Quickleaf]

Is an owlbear still a Monstrosity in the new Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes?

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

I allow all druids to take shape of all beasts or plants (at higher level)without any special movement restriction, and moon druids add monstrosities to the list, with the PHB CR restriction.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Owlbears are animals.

Stop making non-superpowered fantastic animals not animals.

 

[Charlaquin]

Is an owlbear still a Monstrosity in the new Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes?

Assuming you mean Monsters of the Multiverse… Is there even an owlbear in it?

 

[Mind of tempest]

Assuming you mean Monsters of the Multiverse… Is there even an owlbear in it?

no as owlbears are MM.

 

[Jer]

I'd let the druid use bear stats but it looks like an owlbear. Replace the bite attack with a beak attack that is the same except for the name.

I'm pretty sure that statwise the owlbear is just a bigger bear.

 

[Swarmkeeper]

I voted to expand Circle of the Moon to allow Owlbears but I also really like thinking how Circle of the Owlbear or Circle of Monsters might work in a way that is on par with the other Druid sublcasses, too.

 

[D1Tremere]

By now, most of us have seen the trailer for "Honor Among Thieves," the new D&D movie. In this trailer, the tiefling druid Doric (played by Sophia Lillis) using the Wild Shape ability to transform into a friggin' owlbear! (It's at the 1:11 mark, in case you wanna see it again.)

The Internet being what it is, people immediately took this idea and ran a dozen different directions with it. Druids aren't allowed to transform into owlbears, you see, at least according to the rules as-written. It's apparent that the filmmakers took some creative license with the rules. But that didn't stop thousands of geeks, myself included, from gushing about how it could be done in their home games. Some folks would create a whole new druid subclass, others would just make a simple change to the wildshape rules. A few others have suggested changing the owlbear itself.

So how would you do it, for your gaming group? There are no wrong answers.

Druids in 3.5 can using the planar Sheppard prestige class.