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The World of Warcraft creatures may have been inspired by the Owlbear, but they are not Owlbears and do not belong on this page. This article is strictly about the d20 monster. --Valwen 04:27, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Valwen, I appreciate your edits, but they are way too close to a copyright violation. The descriptions you added read just like they came out of the book with only a little rewriting. That's a potential WP:C problem. FrozenPurpleCube 16:39, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
The origin of the owbear is in the dungeon game nethack (http://www.nethack.org/ - first version in 1987).
This game has a lot of creatures that were adopted by newer games like Dungeons & Dragons or EverQuest etc.
(see http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2266805):
NetHack evolved from Hack, which added character classes, pets and shops to the basic features of the original Rogue game.
The first version of NetHack (1.3d) was released on 28 July 1987, and the current version (3.4.3) on 9 December 2003.
Name owlbear Difficulty 7 Base level 5 Base experience 97 Speed 12 Base AC 5 Base MR 0 Alignment 0 Frequency Rare Genocidable Yes ATTACKS Claw: 1d6; Bearhug: 2d8 Weight 1700 Nutritional value 700 Size large Resistances None Resistances conveyed by eating None An owlbear has an animal body with a humanoid shape. It is a carnivore.
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MON("owlbear", S_YETI, LVL(5, 12, 5, 0, 0), (G_GENO|3), A(ATTK(AT_CLAW, AD_PHYS, 1, 6), ATTK(AT_CLAW, AD_PHYS, 1, 6), ATTK(AT_HUGS, AD_PHYS, 2, 8), NO_ATTK, NO_ATTK, NO_ATTK), SIZ(1700, 700, 0, MS_ROAR, MZ_LARGE), 0, 0, M1_ANIMAL|M1_HUMANOID|M1_CARNIVORE, M2_HOSTILE|M2_STRONG|M2_NASTY, M3_INFRAVISIBLE, CLR_BROWN),
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There is no owlbear depicted on the cover of any edition of B2: Keep on the Borderlands, as can be seen here. I am deleting that statement.
Since there is not yet a citation about the "toy" origin, I'm also modifying the phrasing of that claim until it can be corroborated.
--Larry 20:49, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't think this article is a Start-class article any longer. It has a lot more information now, more sources (non-WotC/TSR ones too) and covers the owlbear in a lot of media. Cortador (talk) 10:26, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
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2nd edition AD&D talks about owlbear ecology and mentions that Owlbears lay eggs, which suggests that they would be Monotremes. Would a link to the Monotremes page be appropriate? 118.211.117.239 (talk) 12:52, 19 August 2022 (UTC)