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Owlbear

November 28, 2023

An owlbear (also owl bear) is a fictional creature originally created for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. An owlbear is depicted as a cross between a bear and an owl, which "hugs" like a bear and attacks with its beak. Inspired by a plastic toy made in Hong Kong,[2] Gary Gygax created the owlbear and introduced the creature to the game in the 1975 Greyhawk supplement;[3] the creature has since appeared in every subsequent edition of the game. Owlbears, or similar beasts, also appear in several other fantasy role-playing games, video games and other media.

Owlbear
An owlbear, pictured in the original Monster Manual (by Dave Sutherland, 1977)[1]
First appearanceGreyhawk (1975)
In-universe information
TypeMagical beast
AlignmentNeutral

Creation edit

In the early 1970s, Gary Gygax was playing Chainmail, a wargame that also served as a precursor of Dungeons & Dragons. In order to give his players as many different challenges as possible, Gygax was always on the look-out for new monsters. Although he was able to draw on pulp fiction and sword and sorcery stories for many of them, he also looked through dime stores for figurines that could be used in battle. On one of those occasions, he came across a bag of small plastic toys euphemistically labeled "prehistoric animals". Made in Hong Kong, the set included monsters from Japanese "Kaiju" films such as Ultraman and the Godzilla franchise. Several of these were odd enough to catch his eye, and he used them to represent several new monsters, including the owlbear, the bulette and the rust monster.[4][5]

Concept edit

The owlbear is depicted as an eight to ten foot (2.5–3 meter) tall cross between a bear and an owl. According to descriptions in Dungeons & Dragons source books, owlbears are carnivorous creatures, famed for their aggression and ferocity;[6] they live in mated pairs in caves and hunt any creature bigger than a mouse.[6] They use a "hug" and their beak to attack. In the game's third edition, it was categorized as a "magical beast".

The actual in-game origin of the owlbear has never been definitively revealed, but the various Monster Manual editions indicate that it is probably the product of a wizard's experiments. Within the franchise's mythology, the lich Thessalar claims to have created them, but his insanity and egomania put the accuracy of this claim in doubt.[7] In the 5th edition, some elves claim that owlbears have existed for millennia and older fey say that they have always existed in the Feywild.[8]

Within the Dungeons & Dragons system and in other role-playing games, the owlbear usually serves as a "monster". Within the context of RPGs, "monster" is a generic term to describe potentially hostile beings and obstacles for the players to overcome.[9] This role is also the one the owlbear was originally designed for.[1][3]

Publication history edit

The owlbear is among the earliest monsters in Dungeons & Dragons, and, like the bulette and the rust monster, was inspired by a Hong Kong–made plastic toy purchased by Gary Gygax for use as a miniature in a Chainmail game.[2]

Dungeons & Dragons edit

The owl bear was introduced to the game in its first supplement, Greyhawk (1975).[3] It is described as a "horrid creature" which "hugs" like a bear, and deals damage with its beak. The owlbear is also listed on random encounter tables in Eldritch Wizardry, the third supplement.[10] The illustration shows a bear-like creature on all fours, and bears no resemblance to the plastic toy that had given Gygax his original inspiration.[11]: 66 

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition edit

The owlbear appears in the first edition Monster Manual (1977),[1] where it is described as a "horrible creature that inhabits tangled forest regions, and attacks with its great claws and snapping beak". The illustration of the owlbear shown in the Monster Manual was done by Dave Sutherland, and closely correlates to Gygax's original plastic toy.[11]: 66 

Basic Dungeons & Dragons edit

This edition of the D&D game included its own owl bear, in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (1981 and 1983).[12][13][14] The owl bear was also later featured in the Dungeons & Dragons Game set (1991),[15] the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991),[16] the Classic Dungeons & Dragons Game set (1994),[17] and the Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game set (1999).[18]

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition edit

The owlbear appears first in the Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989),[19] and is reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993).[20]

The owlbear appeared in the Dark Sun setting in the adventure Black Spine (1994).[21]

The owlbear was detailed in Dragon #214 (February 1995), in "The Ecology of the Owlbear", which also included the arctic owlbear and the winged owlbear.[22] These variants were later reprinted in the Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Three (1996).[23]

The greater owlbear appeared in an adventure in Dungeon #63 (July 1997).[24]

Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition edit

The owlbear appears in the Monster Manual for this edition (2000).[25]

The owlbear appeared on the Wizards of the Coast website for the Chainmail game, in 2000.[26]

The winged owlbear in adult and juvenile form appeared in Dungeon #84 (January 2001).[27]

The supplemental book Unapproachable East features a feat, an ability that player characters can obtain, named "owlbear berserker" that allows a player character to use a ferocious owlbear-like fighting style.[28]

Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edit

The owlbear appears in the revised Monster Manual for this edition (2003) as well as the owlbear skeleton under the skeleton entry.[29]

The ancient owlbear appeared in Dungeon #107 (February 2004).[30]

The Ankholian owlbear appeared in the Dragonlance, Bestiary of Krynn[31] (2004) and the Revised Bestiary of Krynn (2007).[32]

Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition edit

The owlbear appears in the Monster Manual for this edition (2008) along with the winterclaw owlbear.[33] The flavor text mentions that owlbears can be tamed to serve as guards.

Dungeons & Dragons Essentials edit

 
The owlbear as depicted in the 4th edition Monster Manual and the Monster Vault.

The Monster Vault boxed set contains the owlbear as well as various subtypes like the young owlbear, trained owlbear, wind-claw owlbear and again the winterclaw owlbear.[34] The cover of the monster book included in the box and the box itself feature an owlbear alongside other monsters.[35]

Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition edit

In May 2012, Wizards of the Coast employee Jon Schindehette announced that the inclusion and design of the owlbear for the upcoming fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons was being discussed.[36]

The monster was included in the "bestiary" of the D&D Next Playtest Package,[37] a compilation of files available for gamers interested in playtesting this Dungeons & Dragons version before its official release.

The owlbear is included in the Monster Manual of the full release of the game, published in 2014. The flavor text states that remote settlements have used owlbears for racing, and it also states the fact that owlbears are more likely to attack their tamer, than actually begin the race.[8]

In other role-playing games edit

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game edit

The owlbear is an official monster in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game[38] that is based on Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition. It is included in the game's first bestiary, and elaborated on in Dungeon Denizens Revisited. Dungeon Denizens Revisited also includes a variant named siege owlbear.[39][40] Furthermore, Paizo released a part of the series Behind the Monsters[41] dedicated to the owlbear, which features the bearowl, the possibly "even stranger offspring" of an owlbear.[42] Additional official Pathfinder variants of the owlbear are the arctic owlbear, Darklands owlbear, fruss owlbear, great hook-clawed owlbear, screaming owlbear, sleeyk owlbear,[43] slime owlbear, sloth owlbear as well as the spectral owlbear.[44]

The adventure module Pathfinder #7 – Curse of the Crimson Throne Chapter 1: "Edge of Anarchy"[45] originally published by Paizo Publishing for Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition under the OGL[46] contains a taxidermic owlbear. It is a regular owlbear with the skeleton template allowing the game master to turn a regular monster into an undead one.[47] A skeletal owlbear illustration was also done by Goodman Games artist Nick Greenwood.[48]

Retro-clones and OSR RPGs edit

As only the design of a role-playing game, not the rules are protected by U.S. copyright law,[49] it is possible for third-party publishers to release RPG systems based on the rules of Dungeons & Dragons without using the actual name or trademarks associated with the brand. These systems are referred to as "retro-clones" or "simulacra".[50] Games not directly using rules of a Dungeons & Dragons edition but claiming to capture the style are often called Old School Renaissance (OSR) games.[51]

The following retro-clones and OSR systems feature the owlbear as an opponent:

Other systems edit

A male half-owlbear, half-blue dragon hybrid named Dragore is featured as an antagonist in the Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 supplement Foul Locales: Beyond the Walls by Mystic Eye Games.[69]

The Manual of Monsters for Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game suggest to use the owlbear as an opponent.[70] A Warcraft-exclusive owlbear-like creature named wildkin is included as well.

Later on, Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game was renamed World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game. This edition's Monster Guide, equivalent to the Manual of Monsters, includes the owlbear-like "wildkin" described as a benign creature and associated with the game's Night Elf faction. A larger and more ferocious subtype listed is the "owlbeast".[71]

A third-party Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition quick reference card for the owlbear has been published as part of a series of Monster Knowledge Cards.[72]

The owlbears appears in the HackMaster 4th edition Hacklopedia of Beasts Volume VI[73] and the HackMaster 5th edition Hacklopedia of Beasts.[74] Variants included are the lesser owlbear, great horned owlbear and the spotted owlbear.

The HackMaster adventure module Little Keep on the Borderlands features owlbears as enemies and an owlbear on the cover.[75]

Blood & Treasure, modelled after Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition, features the owlbear as an opponent.[76][77]

In video games edit

Dungeons & Dragons-licensed games edit

 
The owlbear as an opponent in Tower of Doom.

Several video games based on Dungeons & Dragons feature the owlbear:

Warcraft franchise edit

 
The Wildkin as an NPC enemy in World of Warcraft.

Adaptations of the owlbear appear in the Warcraft universe in several forms:

  • Non-player characters known as "wildkin" appear in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion The Frozen Throne.[83] Variants are the enraged wildkin and berserk wildkin. The actual term "owlbear" is only used in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its manual,[84] and not used in its expansion.
  • The MMORPG World of Warcraft contains a variety of owlbear-like creatures named "wildkin", mostly as NPCs. The alternative term "owlkin" is used of wildkin living in the fictional Ammen Vale. A variant is the mutated owlkin. A more powerful wildkin is the owlbeast, with deranged owlbeast and raging owlbeast being subtypes. Some wildkin are also called "moonkin", which is also a creature players of the druid class can transform into.[85] A quest for players with the druid class involves defeating a moonkin named Lunaclaw.

Other games edit

In other media edit

  • The Harbinger set, the first set of miniatures for the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game, a collectible miniatures game, has an owlbear miniature.[100] The Blood War set has monster named owlbear ranger. The Against the Giants set includes a furious owlbear.[101]
  • In 2012, Wizards of the Coast released a new version of the 1975 adventure board game Dungeon![102] which features owlbears as opponents.[103]
  • Also released in 2012 by Wizards of the Coast, the board game Lords of Waterdeep features a quest card titled "Domesticate Owlbears".[104]
  • The owlbear was depicted in the webcomic The Order of the Stick, where it was presented as a pointless cross between an already dangerous creature (a bear) and a harmless animal (an owl).[105]
  • A creature called a "nightripper" appears in Sagard the Barbarian #2: The Green Hydra game book by Gary Gygax. The nightripper is described and illustrated as a bear with an owl's head but with talons for forepaws. An illustration of it can be found prefacing section 12: The Kingdom Of Darkness.[106]
  • An owlbear also appears in the Japanese light novel series Banished from the Hero's Party.[107][108]
  • In the film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), the druid Doric assumes the form of an owlbear several times.[109][110][111]

Reception edit

Chris Sims of the on-line magazine ComicsAlliance referred to the owlbear as "the second-greatest monster in the history of D&D".[112] Dave Chalker from Critical-Hits.com, a RPG blog which won the Ennie Gold 2011 Ennie Award for Best Blog,[113] recommended the use of the owlbear as a monster.[114] Rob Bricken from io9 named the owlbear as the sixth most memorable D&D monster.[115]

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An owlbear also owl bear is a fictional creature originally created for the Dungeons amp Dragons fantasy role playing game An owlbear is depicted as a cross between a bear and an owl which hugs like a bear and attacks with its beak Inspired by a plastic toy made in Hong Kong 2 Gary Gygax created the owlbear and introduced the creature to the game in the 1975 Greyhawk supplement 3 the creature has since appeared in every subsequent edition of the game Owlbears or similar beasts also appear in several other fantasy role playing games video games and other media OwlbearAn owlbear pictured in the original Monster Manual by Dave Sutherland 1977 1 First appearanceGreyhawk 1975 In universe informationTypeMagical beastAlignmentNeutral Contents 1 Creation 2 Concept 3 Publication history 3 1 Dungeons amp Dragons 3 2 Advanced Dungeons amp Dragons 1st edition 3 3 Basic Dungeons amp Dragons 3 4 Advanced Dungeons amp Dragons 2nd edition 3 5 Dungeons amp Dragons 3rd edition 3 6 Dungeons amp Dragons 3 5 3 7 Dungeons amp Dragons 4th edition 3 8 Dungeons amp Dragons Essentials 3 9 Dungeons amp Dragons 5th edition 4 In other role playing games 4 1 Pathfinder Roleplaying Game 4 2 Retro clones and OSR RPGs 4 3 Other systems 5 In video games 5 1 Dungeons amp Dragons licensed games 5 2 Warcraft franchise 5 3 Other games 6 In other media 7 Reception 8 ReferencesCreation editIn the early 1970s Gary Gygax was playing Chainmail a wargame that also served as a precursor of Dungeons amp Dragons In order to give his players as many different challenges as possible Gygax was always on the look out for new monsters Although he was able to draw on pulp fiction and sword and sorcery stories for many of them he also looked through dime stores for figurines that could be used in battle On one of those occasions he came across a bag of small plastic toys euphemistically labeled prehistoric animals Made in Hong Kong the set included monsters from Japanese Kaiju films such as Ultraman and the Godzilla franchise Several of these were odd enough to catch his eye and he used them to represent several new monsters including the owlbear the bulette and the rust monster 4 5 Concept editThe owlbear is depicted as an eight to ten foot 2 5 3 meter tall cross between a bear and an owl According to descriptions in Dungeons amp Dragons source books owlbears are carnivorous creatures famed for their aggression and ferocity 6 they live in mated pairs in caves and hunt any creature bigger than a mouse 6 They use a hug and their beak to attack In the game s third edition it was categorized as a magical beast The actual in game origin of the owlbear has never been definitively revealed but the various Monster Manual editions indicate that it is probably the product of a wizard s experiments Within the franchise s mythology the lich Thessalar claims to have created them but his insanity and egomania put the accuracy of this claim in doubt 7 In the 5th edition some elves claim that owlbears have existed for millennia and older fey say that they have always existed in the Feywild 8 Within the Dungeons amp Dragons system and in other role playing games the owlbear usually serves as a monster Within the context of RPGs monster is a generic term to describe potentially hostile beings and obstacles for the players to overcome 9 This role is also the one the owlbear was originally designed for 1 3 Publication history editThe owlbear is among the earliest monsters in Dungeons amp Dragons and like the bulette and the rust monster was inspired by a Hong Kong made plastic toy purchased by Gary Gygax for use as a miniature in a Chainmail game 2 Dungeons amp Dragons edit The owl bear was introduced to the game in its first supplement Greyhawk 1975 3 It is described as a horrid creature which hugs like a bear and deals damage with its beak The owlbear is also listed on random encounter tables in Eldritch Wizardry the third supplement 10 The illustration shows a bear like creature on all fours and bears no resemblance to the plastic toy that had given Gygax his original inspiration 11 66 Advanced Dungeons amp Dragons 1st edition edit The owlbear appears in the first edition Monster Manual 1977 1 where it is described as a horrible creature that inhabits tangled forest regions and attacks with its great claws and snapping beak The illustration of the owlbear shown in the Monster Manual was done by Dave Sutherland and closely correlates to Gygax s original plastic toy 11 66 Basic Dungeons amp Dragons edit This edition of theD amp D game included its own owl bear in the Dungeons amp Dragons Basic Set 1981 and 1983 12 13 14 The owl bear was also later featured in the Dungeons amp Dragons Game set 1991 15 the Dungeons amp Dragons Rules Cyclopedia 1991 16 the Classic Dungeons amp Dragons Game set 1994 17 and the Dungeons amp Dragons Adventure Game set 1999 18 Advanced Dungeons amp Dragons 2nd edition edit The owlbear appears first in the Monstrous Compendium Volume One 1989 19 and is reprinted in the Monstrous Manual 1993 20 The owlbear appeared in the Dark Sun setting in the adventure Black Spine 1994 21 The owlbear was detailed in Dragon 214 February 1995 in The Ecology of the Owlbear which also included the arctic owlbear and the winged owlbear 22 These variants were later reprinted in the Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Three 1996 23 The greater owlbear appeared in an adventure in Dungeon 63 July 1997 24 Dungeons amp Dragons 3rd edition edit The owlbear appears in the Monster Manual for this edition 2000 25 The owlbear appeared on the Wizards of the Coast website for the Chainmail game in 2000 26 The winged owlbear in adult and juvenile form appeared in Dungeon 84 January 2001 27 The supplemental book Unapproachable East features a feat an ability that player characters can obtain named owlbear berserker that allows a player character to use a ferocious owlbear like fighting style 28 Dungeons amp Dragons 3 5 edit The owlbear appears in the revised Monster Manual for this edition 2003 as well as the owlbear skeleton under the skeleton entry 29 The ancient owlbear appeared in Dungeon 107 February 2004 30 The Ankholian owlbear appeared in the Dragonlance Bestiary of Krynn 31 2004 and the Revised Bestiary of Krynn 2007 32 Dungeons amp Dragons 4th edition edit The owlbear appears in the Monster Manual for this edition 2008 along with the winterclaw owlbear 33 The flavor text mentions that owlbears can be tamed to serve as guards Dungeons amp Dragons Essentials edit nbsp The owlbear as depicted in the 4th edition Monster Manual and the Monster Vault The Monster Vault boxed set contains the owlbear as well as various subtypes like the young owlbear trained owlbear wind claw owlbear and again the winterclaw owlbear 34 The cover of the monster book included in the box and the box itself feature an owlbear alongside other monsters 35 Dungeons amp Dragons 5th edition edit In May 2012 Wizards of the Coast employee Jon Schindehette announced that the inclusion and design of the owlbear for the upcoming fifth edition of Dungeons amp Dragons was being discussed 36 The monster was included in the bestiary of the D amp D Next Playtest Package 37 a compilation of files available for gamers interested in playtesting this Dungeons amp Dragons version before its official release The owlbear is included in the Monster Manual of the full release of the game published in 2014 The flavor text states that remote settlements have used owlbears for racing and it also states the fact that owlbears are more likely to attack their tamer than actually begin the race 8 In other role playing games editPathfinder Roleplaying Game edit The owlbear is an official monster in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game 38 that is based on Dungeons and Dragons 3 5 edition It is included in the game s first bestiary and elaborated on in Dungeon Denizens Revisited Dungeon Denizens Revisited also includes a variant named siege owlbear 39 40 Furthermore Paizo released a part of the series Behind the Monsters 41 dedicated to the owlbear which features the bearowl the possibly even stranger offspring of an owlbear 42 Additional official Pathfinder variants of the owlbear are the arctic owlbear Darklands owlbear fruss owlbear great hook clawed owlbear screaming owlbear sleeyk owlbear 43 slime owlbear sloth owlbear as well as the spectral owlbear 44 The adventure module Pathfinder 7 Curse of the Crimson Throne Chapter 1 Edge of Anarchy 45 originally published by Paizo Publishing for Dungeons and Dragons 3 5 edition under the OGL 46 contains a taxidermic owlbear It is a regular owlbear with the skeleton template allowing the game master to turn a regular monster into an undead one 47 A skeletal owlbear illustration was also done by Goodman Games artist Nick Greenwood 48 Retro clones and OSR RPGs edit As only the design of a role playing game not the rules are protected by U S copyright law 49 it is possible for third party publishers to release RPG systems based on the rules of Dungeons amp Dragons without using the actual name or trademarks associated with the brand These systems are referred to as retro clones or simulacra 50 Games not directly using rules of a Dungeons amp Dragons edition but claiming to capture the style are often called Old School Renaissance OSR games 51 The following retro clones and OSR systems feature the owlbear as an opponent Swords amp Wizardry modelled after the original Dungeons amp Dragons from 1974 and published by Mythmere Games 52 Labyrinth Lord by Goblinoid Games 53 Dark Dungeons Darker Dungeons and Darkest Dungeons later renamed Blood Guts and Glory by Gratis Games all include the owlbear in their bestiary 54 55 56 OSRIC a system emulating Advanced Dungeons amp Dragons 57 Mazes amp Perils inspired by the 1977 Holmes version of Dungeons amp Dragons 58 Adventurer Conqueror King by Autarch 59 Dungeon Crawl Classics by Goodman Games 60 In Basic Fantasy the owlbear appears 61 together with the fire breathing owlbear 62 Microlite74 Basic Standard and Extended all have owlbears as monsters 63 64 65 For Gold amp Glory emulating Advanced Dungeons amp Dragons 2nd edition 66 Castles amp Crusades by Troll Lord Games 67 Burning THAC0 68 a variation of The Burning Wheel Other systems edit A male half owlbear half blue dragon hybrid named Dragore is featured as an antagonist in the Dungeons amp Dragons 3 0 supplement Foul Locales Beyond the Walls by Mystic Eye Games 69 The Manual of Monsters for Warcraft The Roleplaying Game suggest to use the owlbear as an opponent 70 A Warcraft exclusive owlbear like creature named wildkin is included as well Later on Warcraft The Roleplaying Game was renamed World of Warcraft The Roleplaying Game This edition s Monster Guide equivalent to the Manual of Monsters includes the owlbear like wildkin described as a benign creature and associated with the game s Night Elf faction A larger and more ferocious subtype listed is the owlbeast 71 A third party Dungeons amp Dragons 3 5 edition quick reference card for the owlbear has been published as part of a series of Monster Knowledge Cards 72 The owlbears appears in the HackMaster 4th edition Hacklopedia of Beasts Volume VI 73 and the HackMaster 5th edition Hacklopedia of Beasts 74 Variants included are the lesser owlbear great horned owlbear and the spotted owlbear The HackMaster adventure module Little Keep on the Borderlands features owlbears as enemies and an owlbear on the cover 75 Blood amp Treasure modelled after Dungeons amp Dragons 3 5 edition features the owlbear as an opponent 76 77 In video games editDungeons amp Dragons licensed games edit nbsp The owlbear as an opponent in Tower of Doom Several video games based on Dungeons amp Dragons feature the owlbear The owlbear appears as a regular enemy in the arcade beat em up Dungeons amp Dragons Tower of Doom 78 as well as in its sequel Shadow over Mystara 79 The games were later re released in a bundle for the Sega Saturn as the Dungeons amp Dragons Collection 80 As of update 19 the MMORPG Dungeons amp Dragons Online originally released as Dungeons amp Dragons Online Stormreach contains owlbears as combat foes and hireling pets citation needed The owlbear makes an appearance in Dungeons amp Dragons Tactics for the PlayStation Portable Owlbears appear in Curse of the Azure Bonds Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures and Neverwinter Nights which are all part of the so called Gold Box series of Advanced Dungeons amp Dragons video games by SSI citation needed Some or all of these titles are also included in a number of collected editions of Gold Box games 81 82 The owlbear is a regular opponent in Dungeons amp Dragons Warriors of the Eternal Sun which was developed for the Sega Genesis by Westwood Associates in 1992 citation needed The owlbear is an epic rarity ridable mount in Neverwinter citation needed Warcraft franchise edit nbsp The Wildkin as an NPC enemy in World of Warcraft Adaptations of the owlbear appear in the Warcraft universe in several forms Non player characters known as wildkin appear in Warcraft III Reign of Chaos and its expansion The Frozen Throne 83 Variants are the enraged wildkin and berserk wildkin The actual term owlbear is only used in Warcraft III Reign of Chaos and its manual 84 and not used in its expansion The MMORPG World of Warcraft contains a variety of owlbear like creatures named wildkin mostly as NPCs The alternative term owlkin is used of wildkin living in the fictional Ammen Vale A variant is the mutated owlkin A more powerful wildkin is the owlbeast with deranged owlbeast and raging owlbeast being subtypes Some wildkin are also called moonkin which is also a creature players of the druid class can transform into 85 A quest for players with the druid class involves defeating a moonkin named Lunaclaw Other games edit Owlbears can be found in the roguelike computer games NetHack 86 and ADOM citation needed It also appears in the text based MMORPG BatMUD citation needed Owlbears appear as mobs in the MMORPG EverQuest The Shadows of Luclin in nineteen variants 87 They are also featured in its sequel EverQuest II Here variants include the ash owlbear cinder pawcrusher and foulfeather as well as female and elder owlbears 88 The online collectible card game Legends of Norrath based on EverQuest features an ash owlbear card 89 An enemy named owl bear appears early into the Master System game Phantasy Star It resembles an eyeball with bat wings however and is called devil bat in the original Japanese version 90 The owlbear is a monster in the 1992 SNES game Dragon Quest V Hand of the Heavenly Bride by Enix later Square Enix 91 The monster is also included in the later remakes for the PlayStation 2 92 and the Nintendo DS 93 Additionally the Nintendo DS version features a stronger purple variant called growlbear Tales of Destiny II for the PlayStation 2 features owl bears オウルベア in the Japanese original 94 There are also owlbears as enemies in Final Fantasy XII The Japanese original uses the term owlbear whereas the English localisation calls the creature urstrix 95 Owlbears are the protagonists of the 2011 browser game Owlbear Garden 96 The owlbear is featured on a monster card a gameplay element in the MMO Kingdom Conquest by Sega 97 The online game Kingdom Quest by Funzio features owlbears as opponents citation needed Another MMO Lineage includes owlbears with various levels of strength as well as a variant named valley owlbear 98 In the PlayStation 3 game Dragon s Crown owlbears appear as a mob citation needed Owlbears appear in the roguelike game Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead as a dangerous enemy 99 In the Magic The Gathering Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set the owlbear appears as a green creature later on in the Commander Legends Battle for Baldur s Gate set an owbear cub appears as a creature also in green In other media editThe Harbinger set the first set of miniatures for the Dungeons amp Dragons Miniatures Game a collectible miniatures game has an owlbear miniature 100 The Blood War set has monster named owlbear ranger The Against the Giants set includes a furious owlbear 101 In 2012 Wizards of the Coast released a new version of the 1975 adventure board game Dungeon 102 which features owlbears as opponents 103 Also released in 2012 by Wizards of the Coast the board game Lords of Waterdeep features a quest card titled Domesticate Owlbears 104 The owlbear was depicted in the webcomic The Order of the Stick where it was presented as a pointless cross between an already dangerous creature a bear and a harmless animal an owl 105 A creature called a nightripper appears in Sagard the Barbarian 2 The Green Hydra game book by Gary Gygax The nightripper is described and illustrated as a bear with an owl s head but with talons for forepaws An illustration of it can be found prefacing section 12 The Kingdom Of Darkness 106 An owlbear also appears in the Japanese light novel series Banished from the Hero s Party 107 108 In the film Dungeons amp Dragons Honor Among Thieves 2023 the druid Doric assumes the form of an owlbear several times 109 110 111 Reception editChris Sims of the on line magazine ComicsAlliance referred to the owlbear as the second greatest monster in the history of D amp D 112 Dave Chalker from Critical Hits com a RPG blog which won the Ennie Gold 2011 Ennie Award for Best Blog 113 recommended the use of the owlbear as a monster 114 Rob Bricken from io9 named the owlbear as the sixth most memorable D amp D monster 115 References edit a b c Gygax Gary Monster Manual TSR 1977 a b Greenwood Ed Ecology of the Rust Monster Dragon 88 TSR 1984 Account was later re printed in the Ecology of the Rust Monster article in issue 346 a b c Gygax Gary and Robert Kuntz Supplement I Greyhawk TSR 1975 Gygax There was a set of plastic toys laughlingly labelled as dinosaurs if I remember right I frequented the local dime stores back in the late 60s and early 70s searching for toys that 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