Owlbear

Magical Beast · SM +1 Owlbear (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A bear-bodied predator with the head, beak and fixed staring eyes of a great owl, feathered across the shoulders and heavy enough to put a horse down. It has neither fear nor patience, attacks on sight, and will follow a fleeing meal well past the point where a bear would lose interest.

Attributes

ST20

DX10

IQ4

HT13

HP22

Will10

Per12

FP13

Basic Speed6

Basic Move8

Dodge10

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp BeakSharp Beak (15): thrust 2d large piercing, Reach C.	15	thrust 2d large piercing	C
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (15): thrust 2d cutting, Reach C-1.	15	thrust 2d cutting	C-1

Traits (28)

• Bad Smell
• Bad Temper (9)
• Bloodlust (12)
• Born Biter 1
• Combat Reflexes
• Discriminatory Smell
• Early Maturation 1
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Feathers
• Hard to Subdue 3
• High Pain Threshold
• ikes elven flesh
• Increased Consumption 1
• Likes honey
• Metabolism Control 2 (Hibernation)
• Nictitating Membrane 1
• Night Vision 9
• No Fine Manipulators
• Penetrating Voice
• Precise Hearing (Biological (Passive))
• Reduced Consumption 2 (Cast-Iron Stomach)
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Semi-Upright
• Short Lifespan 2
• Stubbornness
• Temperature Tolerance 1 (Cold)
• Wild Animal

Skills (5)

• 15Brawling
• 14Climbing
• 14Intimidation
• 14Survival (Woodlands)
• 14Wrestling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/owlbear.gct
• Source template total: 11 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 11 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Review attacks, special abilities, encounter frequency, treasure, grappling, and GCS modifiers before approval.
• GCS template includes a +5-point reconciliation child requiring decomposition.

Encounter rating

CER45

Offense21

Protection24

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• magical-beast

GCS v5 downloads

• ↓ Character sheet (.gcs)Open directly in GCS
• ↓ Ancestry template (.gct)Apply to any character

Where this one came from

Source record

Owlbear

Source system

gurps_4e_fan_conversion / author_permission

Released under

cc_by_4_0

Conversion

0.2.0-reviewed

Review status

approved

Credit

Original GURPS conversion by Enraged Eggplant, from Monsters (May 11, 2024); adapted and republished with permission.

Description

Written by Dungeons on Automatic, released under cc_by_4_0

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/owlbear.gct
• Source template total: 11 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 11 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• GCS ancestry reconciliation adjudicated: the published template total is 11 points and the parsed source children sum to 6, a difference of +5. Classified as small arithmetic residual — a small residual consistent with rounding and per-level arithmetic in the published total; the rebuilt template keeps the author's total and carries the difference as an explicit reconciliation child. The authorized source total is preserved; the remaining manual step is opening gcs/owlbear.gct in GCS to replace the reconciliation child with native constructions where the grouped ability can be decomposed.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 21, PR 24, CER 45, threat tier standard.
• Encounter metadata derived (gregarious): average number appearing 2, wandering weight 3. Encounter metadata derived for 0.2.0 from the reviewed threat tier and creature class (appearing: minor 4 / standard 2 / major 1 / severe 1, forced to 1 for solitary classes — including swarms, which are a single multi-body creature — and raised to 6 for gregarious minor creatures; wandering weight: minor 4 / standard 3 / major 2 / severe 1). The fan-conversion source states no appearing-in-numbers or wandering values, so these are derived, not source mechanics.
• Lair, treasure, and grappling remain unpopulated in 0.2.0 by package policy: the authorized fan-conversion source states no lair, treasure, or grappling values, and review declines to invent them. See review/policy/0.2.0-empty-field-policy.md.
• Description text is original Dungeons on Automatic prose written from this record's own converted statistics and from the project's art direction for the creature. It is not derived from the authorized fan-conversion source, which states no creature descriptions, and not from any SRD. It carries its own authorship and CC BY 4.0 terms in the description field. See review/policy/description-policy.md.
• Review approved by automated-mechanical-review on 2026-07-26 (batch ee-2026-07-26-b2-gcs-reconciliation); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
• The source-total difference is classified and documented in conversionNotes; the authorized published total is preserved and the residual stays visible as a reconciliation child.
• Visual GCS verification of the .gct is not claimed by this decision; checks.gcsVisualPass is false.