As I mentioned back on the 22nd of February, the owlbear sort of ended up being the mascot for the Kingmaker Adventure Path. I also hinted that our poor mascot was going to have something of an unlucky streak. Turns out... the bad luck hits more or less immediately—in the second Kingmaker adventure, "Rivers Run Red," the PCs start to build their kingdom and tame the wilderness of the Stolen Lands. That's bad news for the owlbears, as you can see here.
Don't worry, though, because our unlucky owlbear is destined for greater things than merely providing a pile of experience points for some overzealous archer! It's just that the owlbear won't be all that aware of his fame when it finally comes!
Not only will there be Owlbear fur rugs and Owbear fur trimmed/lined coats, on Coronation Investiture Day, peppered Owlbear steak in Sphinx butter will be given to the populance at large.
Them's good eating.
Some faint hearted druids probably gagged when they saw the background for that picture.
I can accept this quick, ignominious demise if Woodsy ends up being the ultimate BBEG of the AP. But he would need stats and a final illustration to fully heal the wound.
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Some faint hearted druids probably gagged when they saw the background for that picture.
I would suggest that it was less being faint hearted, and more "not being a complete monster"
He'll be laughing out the other side of his freakish little skull when we of the woods have our vengeance!
This is the most depressing image ever! I'm going to blow it up and pin it to the wall for every player to see. Let's see if they still want to start a colony knowing the heavy price on the virgin earth.
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Remember what happened after Paizo re-envisioned Goblins in Burnt Offerings?
Suddenly everyone wants to play one of those funky little guys as a PC race!
So don't let us empathise with these poor Owlbears too much:
Owlbear = the new Wookie!
However, they do eat many things with carrots inside them!
The background of this picture really has me thinking ahead about preservation of the land and the situation with any people already living there. Sounds like a lot of fey live out there according to the player's guide. We're aiming to be a good-aligned party as a whole, so we're definitely going to try and avoid another Falcon's Hollow situation.
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