Vaalingrade
Legend
What happens if someone kills a big monster on a crit? A giant censor bar appears around it as it falls?Yeah, I get it, it "looks" cool, but the "Rule of Cool" has never been a thing in my games and never will be.
What happens if someone kills a big monster on a crit? A giant censor bar appears around it as it falls?Yeah, I get it, it "looks" cool, but the "Rule of Cool" has never been a thing in my games and never will be.
What the heck are you talking about???What happens if someone kills a big monster on a crit? A giant censor bar appears around it as it falls?
Yes, this. You can reskin anything into anything as long as it uses the same mechanical bits.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.
How would it be a power boost?Would add it via a feat. New subclass could perhaps to it as well.
Moon Druids don't need the power boost.
Agreed, it's not much of a power boost at all. Compared to a giant scorpion (also CR3), the owlbear has a slightly better offense, but the scorpion has better defense, blindsight, and free grapples, not to mention it can spike damage if the target fails a save against poison. It's nice for the flexibility, but it isn't really raising the ceiling of what a 9th level moon druid can do.How would it be a power boost?
How would it be a power boost?
Its weaker than the other options the druid has at that level. Owlbear isn't going to outdo the giant scorpion, and while you're doing more damage than an ankylosaurus, you're missing out on the free knockdown every attack and aren't as tankyIt's another option that other druids don't get (assuming moon Druids only get it).
Like noted, it isn't really any more powerful than stuff they already have. It's just a nice little flavour thing. And it would be moon only because others can't access that CR.It's another option that other druids don't get (assuming moon Druids only get it).
The Circles of Hell Druid build was highly disappointing, as your early options were just lemure, imp and teifling.It’s a Druid Owlbear that shape changes into a tiefling.
How about cute little pixie-sized screech owl bears?Allowed change to snowy owlbears when I ran ROTFM
Wait. You left out one of the three official possibilities.Not really, since nothing from its origins suggests as such.
Creation of mad wizard person: monstrosity
Creature of the Feywild: fey
But, hey, you do you.![]()
By that logic do you also include hippogriffs as beasts? They are even more stupid that owlbears (INT 3 vs INT 2), are just a mixture of two beasts: eagle and horse (similar to the mixture of owl and bear). Pretty underwhelming as a monstrosity, right?Owlbears have always been beasts in any campaign world I have a say in, because that is simply what they should be.
I feel like anyone who actually wants to include owlbears in their game wants them because they are the weird, uniquely D&D creature that is just a dumb animal with no special abilities, and having an extraordinary "ordinary" woodland beast, particular to this game, is fun and emphasizes the D&Dness of the setting. It was a mistake of the designers to designate them as anything else but beasts. As a "monstrosity" they are underwhelming; as a "beast" they are fun and make the game world more fun.
It is part of the second possibility, that "some fey" (those elves) insist they have always existed in the feywild...Wait. You left out one of the three official possibilities.
It is an official possibility that the elves have already known about the owlbear existing in the material plane for thousands of years. In other words, one of the three official possibilities is, it is a natural Beast.
Nah, they just took license with it because of the Rule of Cool and they are trying to make a movie that highlights all the "cool" of D&D.Obviously, the D&D movie went with option 3. The owlbear is a Beast. A Druid can wildshape into it.
No, it is pretty certain:The 5e lore is officially uncertain.
It is true the movie went with the rule of cool.Nah, they just took license with it because of the Rule of Cool and they are trying to make a movie that highlights all the "cool" of D&D.
No, it is pretty certain:
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Maybe, maybe not.One way or an other, expect the 50th anniversary edition to grant the Druid the ability to become an owlbear.
Also against all the prior establishments of the monster.To clarify that the owlbear was a Beast all along, is the simplest way to accomplish this inevitability.