#owlbear cave

[chilljustacat]

Baldur's Gate 3 locations 23/?

[assyriangoatfaerie]

well, first death to honor mode. fyi tactician apparently adds a second adult owlbear to the owlbear cave. astarion escaped but his solo attempt to go recruit withers failed miserably

[uselessgaywhovian]

shadowheart? i'm not that into her, she's fine or whatever, i mean—*trips* *dozens of save files before every shadowheart conversation spill from pockets* fuck, those aren't mine i swear, i'm holding them for a friend, i—*slips on pile of save files* *dozens more save files from the new game i started as a selûne cleric for Extra Drama™ fall out as i fall to my knees, desperately trying to pick them up* i can explain, hang on LISTEN

[shithowdy]

magdalenian owlbear

[morablackbird]

Owlbear in snow cave

Hi, I'm sorry, I failed to post Monday because I had nothing finished. So, I drew this quick sketch. I hope you guys like it.

Take care and stay safe

Dove

[goodgirlgonebard]

We did it, your honor. We got the owl bear cub in honor mode 😤🤍

[kittyclowns]

Realizing now the reason I didn't get the owlbear cub was because I cleared the goblin camp before going into the owlbear cave

[realian]

[undead-potatoes]

Can you imagine how excited Tara is that Gale has finally found someone if the MC stays with him after the game, only for them to show up and it's that person whose only interaction was (accidentally) insulting her AND they brought their big, loud, stinky dog with them

[apricote]

now that i'm playing a second time ive noticed so many things i missed with rowena, like i never met abdirak in the goblin camp or rescued the owlbear cub. also who tf was the lady who came to kill priestess gut when she imprisoned sirius in chains in her room??? i love this game so much

[bosspigeon]

oh i love her

[owlbear33]

can anyone recommend any good fiction, novels etc, that do the cave fantasy Underdark thing well, anything that really sells the weird and wonderful yet sometimes utterly hostile colossal cave system complete with underground civilisations

I'll accept official dnd (forgotten realms) stuff if you can recommend specific novels that are good, otherwise yeah any good fantasy that does "The Underdark" well

[mewtatedbunnies]

Alexandre got a new pet

It’s so cute 😭

Alexandre also got his eye knocked out so now he’s got two different eyes

[meanbossart]

Because I love the idea of DU drow as a companion... how would you recruit him? Where do you find him, and what's his intro cutscene?

Hi, I've been thinking about this since I got this message :V

There's this nautiloid pod somewhere nearby the Owlbear cave right? So those things were just crashing all over the place, not just near the beach where the actual ship fell. I believe his pod could have had a similar fate and fallen somewhere off the beaten path.

Mind you that, In this scenario, waking up from the pod and onto the forest map would have been DU Drow's first-ever conscious minutes ever since having his mind wiped, so he truly has no fucking idea of what just happened - he just knows his head is in shambles and that he needs to survive for long enough for his memories to return, assuming they ever will. So, his immediate instinct would be to retreat away from where the people are.

I think underneath the bridge, where there's running water and some fauna/flora would be a good spot to find him. Players might take a day or two until they stumble across this weirdo companion and so they are more in the loop than he would be. You'd find a little blood-trail leading you down there, and eventually spot a fist's corpse with no shoes near the river - DU drow would be crouched down by the water washing blood off himself:

While the rest of the party may have been picked off random places as they went about their days, this guy was busy being dissected and put back together over and over again - and there's no way Kressa bothered to dress him back up fully before he was taken away from her (me allowing the man to have pants on at all is a mercy onto you all) so he begins with no armor, but to make up for that fact he's the only companion who begins with a great-sword, which he would have stolen from the fist.

When you approach he is perfectly calm, In fact, he doesn't seem all that there. He stands up and appears half-ready for a fight, but lets you speak first. You can either ask what he's doing here, or about the corpse. You get more or less the same answer to both:

If you successfully persuade him, he tells you with no particular tone of shame or remorse that you got him, he did kill him, however he claims he was attacked first. Whether you pry into his mind with the worm, or have a scroll of read-thoughts, you get the same narration:

"Behind the aloof facade, you find the drow's mind to be in a concerning state of disarray: dozens of thoughts racing, jumbled, all at once, each trailing into the next before you can catch a hint of substance. You don't find the answers you were looking for, just red goo."

You CAN however use speak to the dead on the corpse. If you do that, it's revealed that he is actually telling the truth; The fist found him and assumed him to be with the drow who raided Wakeen's rest. Otherwise, you have to either take his word for it, attack him, or leave him.

He will refuse your offers to join you/go to your camp until you reveal to him that you have been tadpoled - either through using the Illithid-worm option, or telling him upfront through normal dialogue. If you didn't peer into his head earlier, you will now, confirming to yourself and him that he's also been infected. Then, you can tell him you're looking for a cure, and he will agree to travel along. This gets you approval from Shadowheart, Karlach, and Astarion, and disapproval from Lae'zel, Wyll, and Gale.

If you attack, he's as easy a fight as any companion would be at that point. If you choose to leave him be/not tell him about your worm so he refuses to join, he will appear at your camp after two long rests, basically forcing himself to into your party unless you kill him. You find him hanging out around Withers and he tells you he's decided to travel with you from now on, and that he will make himself comfortable.

If you ask for his name, he tells you to just call him whatever you want to (cue like 5 joke dialogue answers - he responds to all of them with a snort and you get approval if you pick any flattering ones). Whatever you ask about him gets you a very blunt, vague response. If you have Shadowheart in your party/are playing as her, she implies he may be suffering from memory loss, finally prompting him to admit to it. Otherwise he only reveals this after a couple more long-rests.

[multicolouredmonster]

It's come to my attention that some folk don't know you can get the owlbear cub to stay permanently at your camp, and are missing out on some adorable interactions

Here's how I got him in early access, but be warned that it may be slightly different in the full release version

(I highly recommend picking up the Speak With Animals spell for either yourself or Wyll - you'll miss out on some really cute conversions with the cub if you don't have a way to cast it on yourself)

* to kick this off, you need to encounter the mother owlbear. She's in the cave between Druids Grove and the Blighted Village

* to get out of this interaction peacefully: either talk your way out of fighting the mamma owlbear (Speak With Animals) pass an Animal Handling check, or pass an Intimidation check

* if your rolls fail and combat starts, it's fine: just completely ignore the cub when you're fighting her, so that it survives

*(spoiler: mamma owlbear is gonna die even if you manage to get out of the interaction peacefully)

* the cub will be in a cage when you arrive at the goblin camp, next to Krolla (the chicken chase game) if the cub isn't there, take a Long Rest and they should show up.

* Free the cub and interact with it. If you have a way to speak with it, offer to let it come with you

* After a few long rests (it took 2 for me) it'll show up injured at camp. Either bandage it up (low DC Medicine roll) or tell him that it's just a little scratch and he'll be fine (low DC Persuasion roll)

* you now have an adorable little owlbear at camp! He'll start bringing you dead animals to say thank you (free food)

* If Scratch the dog is also at camp, the two will eventually cuddle up together and it's absolutely adorable. (The owlbear is having nightmares and Scratch is trying to comfort him)

* yes, you can absolutely pet the owlbear. And the dog. You can also give them a ball to play with, and they'll play fetch with you

[adelar-plays]

halsin said that he hibernates until the thaw, and i can't stop imagining how nice it can be now that he has you and the children

he can avoid hibernating if necessary, but he becomes restless and a bit irritable when depraved of his winter nap. even though he still treats everyone with kindness, if you know him well enough, you notice that many things make him less happy and he gets irritated mainly with himself, so it's kinder to not demand him to stay awake and just let him sleep

you anticipated his awakening ever since you first sensed the change in weather. this unmistakable earthy smell of spring – thawing snow, waking up soil and roots and worms in it, all fills you with impatience and joy

so maybe today

you’ve been waking up early for the last few days to be the first one to know. to be there waiting for him, being happy to see him

maybe today

he wakes up in a pile of... well, everything that definitely wasn't here when he went to sleep

while he was sleeping, children brought him all their plushie treasures that helped them ward off nightmares when they were alone and didn’t have you and each other. they’ve put their owlbear toys around halsin so he wouldn't be lonely and scared in his dreams, someone put a blanket over him, someone even half managed to put a pillow under his head – not a small feat, mind you. more mischievous kids have been piling their toys atop him just for the fun of it, to see if it would wake him up, and giggling when it didn't

it's so much better than waking up alone and in the same empty room. the mess kids created around him is an evidence that he's now loved and cared for

and he has his suspicions about who might’ve brought him this blanket

he stretches his muscles, feeling his heart rate quickening*, and slightly unsteadily from a long sleep comes out

the smell of a bear who just spent months curled up in a cave is... well, not exactly exquisite, he knows it and lets out a slightly embarrassed chuckle when you put him in tight embrace, noticing that he's a little easier to hug now than when you did it kissing him goodnight**

the kids are sleeping yet. they demanded to know immediately when daddy halsin is back, and even tried to take turns staying awake and keeping watch – none of them lasted past 2 am, and you had to bring them to their beds. you don’t wake them up just yet, because you want to have some time for you two

you make him his first in this year huge mug of herbal tea with honey that you secretly stashed away and saved for him, and he fills his pipe, while you knead his stiff shoulders and untangle his hair

and, honestly, this moment is so worth waiting the whole winter for

*bears’ heart rate drops to 8-10 beats a minute while they hibernate **bears lose up to 33% of their weight while hibernating