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The owlbear is a type of fictional monster in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
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An owlbear is depicted as a cross between a bear and an owl, which " hugs " like a bear and attacks with its beak, and was considered a magical beast in the game's third edition.
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 miniature in a Chainmail game.
The owlbear appears in the first edition Monster Manual ( 1977 ), where it is described as a horrible creature that inhabits tangled forest regions, and attacks with its great claws and snapping beak.
The owlbear appears first in the Monstrous Compendium Volume One ( 1989 ), and is reprinted in the Monstrous Manual ( 1993 ).
The actual origin of the owlbear has never been definitively revealed, but the various Monster Manual editions indicate it is probably the product of a wizard's experiments.
owlbear and Dungeons
* An owlbear also appeared in the webcomic Goblins, a adventure taking place in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, but from the perspective of the creatures that inhabit it, not the players.
owlbear and game
Gary Gygax created the owlbear, which was inspired by a plastic toy made in Hong Kong, and introduced the creature to the game in the 1975 Greyhawk supplement ; the creature has since appeared in every subsequent edition of the game, including the game's first edition, second edition, third edition, and fourth edition.
The owlbear appeared on the Wizards of the Coast website for the Chainmail game, in 2000.
owlbear and .
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.
The owlbear appears in the Monster Manual for this edition ( 2008 ), along with the winterclaw owlbear.
* The owlbear was card # 107 of 750 in the 1991 TSR trading cards factory set, and card # 117 of 495 in the 1993 TSR trading cards factory set.
is and type
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is and fictional
It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private detective was recruited.
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Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
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On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".
Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.
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The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ).
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Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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