Armor Class
12
(natural armor)
Hit Points
42
(5d10 + 15)
Speed
40 ft., swim 30 ft.
STR
20
(+5)
DEX
10
(+0)
CON
16
(+3)
INT
2
(-4)
WIS
13
(+1)
CHA
7
(-2)
Skills
Perception +3
Senses
Passive Perception 13
Languages
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Challenge
2 (450 XP)
Proficiency Bonus
+2
Keen Smell. The bear has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Actions
Multiattack. The bear makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) slashing damage.
not everyone has access to cave bears since you have to buy monster manual
Polar bear
Sorry
what the ****
This is an awesome wildshape for a druid.
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Why don't polar bears get cold resistance?
It would be cold at first, though once you get deep enough it would start getting really hot. Well, at least assuming that the setting you're in is on a round planet like earth that has a molten core.
this dumb ass bear killed me in a snow storm, im going to smelt more coal to speed up global warming
please add cold resistance
Im going to use a polar bear as a mount for my white dragonborn ranger
Installed my party's sorcerer 10/10 would fight again
um ok
they can wander 300miles without cold
The DMG rules for cold weather state that creatures adapted to cold climates don't suffer from weather-related debuffs, so polar bears already have the cold-weather resistance one would expect them to have. The devs probably just didn't want to further buff the best Wildshape form at this CR level.
I love the Polar bear. A handy companion when your stuck in a cell
Would a taiga/mountain region count as Arctic? I am planning on adding a few of these bears travelling there as an encounter :)
They do have warm coats which protect them from hypothermia, but cold resistance implies resisting low temperatures to a supernatural degree, to the point of shrugging off liquid nitrogen. Try dumping something like that all over a polar bear, and see how it fares. Spoiler alert: It's not gonna be any prettier than if you did the same thing to a human.
How does a Polar Bear, an animal that chooses to live in an arctic climate, not have Cold Damage Resistance??
Someone get Jeremy Crawford on the phone!
(I just played a one-shot with another PC who had a polar bear companion. It got full damage from being... too cold????)
Cold resistance and ignores snow for difficult terrain