Wednesday, March 27, 2019

D6x6 Ornery Owlbears

The following monsters are considered “Product Identity” by Wizards of the Coast: Beholders, gauth, carrion crawlers, displacer beasts, githyanki, githzerai, kuo-toa, mind flayers, slaads, umber hulks, and yuan-ti. Owlbears are not, so I can make this generator without getting my ass sued off.




Generator automator found here: http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.html 

D6 This owlbear’s owl-parts resemble
1 a great horned owl’s.
2 a snowy owl’s.
3 a barn owl’s.
4 a burrowing owl’s.
5 a screech owl’s.
6 a spectacled owl’s.
D6 This owlbear’s bear-parts resemble
1 a polar bear’s.
2 a brown bear’s.
3 a black bear’s.
4 a panda’s.
5 a sun bear’s.
6 a sloth bear’s.
D6 Why does this bizarre hybrid exist?
1 It’s actually a distant descendant of the triceratops, and not even remotely related to either owls or bears.
2 An owl and a bear loved each other very much (in a puddle of radioactive waste).
3 It was made as a taxidermical farce, but a spiteful fairy gave it life.
4 It was created as a symbol of peace between the Court of Owls and the Den of Bears.
5 It’s a survivor of the previous world of Empedoclesian harmony, when chimeric beings were the norm.
6 It’s a bogeyman that took its form from a child’s particular combination of animal fears.
D6 A quirk of this owlbear is
1 it can fly short distances by madly flapping its forelegs.
2 it can smell magic, and craves the taste of the stuff.
3 it can spit pellets like bullets.
4 its feathers and fur turn aside any weapons which are not themselves hybrids (halberds, sword-pistols, and so on).
5 those crushed by its hug attacks will develop a phobia of (1d4): 1, tight spaces; 2, birds; 3, bears; 4, getting hugged.
6 it is as wise and lazy as folkloric owls and bears.
D6 This owlbear’s lair
1 is a nest of branches on the forest floor, broken off under its weight when it tried to climb them.
2 was previously a warren of budgiebadgers, which it ate.
3 is a shrine of piled stones built for it by a tribe that venerated it as a lesser nature god. It can still be made docile like a winter catfish by offerings of meat.
4 is dug into the side of a hill where a caravan was buried by a landslide. It uses the buried corpses as a convenient larder.
5 is the barn of a farmer it scared off. It’s grown fat off the farmer’s livestock.
6 is a cave cohabited by a band of bandits, who’ve carefully recorded the owlbear’s sleeping schedule so they only move when it’s dormant.
D6 In this owlbear’s pellets you might find
1 oracle bones fire-cracked into patterns which hint at the troubles that lie before you.
2 a dented, scraped, but still serviceable piece of armour.
3 a rubber chew toy.
4 1d6 serpents’ teeth, fit for making envenomed arrows.
5 a gold ring etched by its stomach acid.
6 1d6 magic seeds, which sprout instantly when planted into (1d4): 1, a wall of brambles; 2, an apple tree heavy with fruit; 3, a sproutling treant; 4, an evil, mobile, giant tumbleweed.

1 comment:

  1. I'm pretty sure as long as you don't try to profit off any of it they wouldn't give you a hard time, and I'd love to see your take on all of those things (especially gith and mindflayers!)

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