Ambusher. On the first round of each combat, the dropowlbear has advantage on attack rolls against a creature that hasn’t taken a turn yet.
Foliage Camouflage. The dropowlbear has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks it makes in any terrain with ample obscuring plant life.
Keen Sight and Smell. The dropowlbear has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight or smell.
Feathered Grace. The dropowlbear doesn't take damage from falling if it isn't incapacitated.
Multiattack. The dropowlbear makes two attacks: one with its beak and one with its claws.
Beak. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit 10 (1d10 + 4) piercing damage.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit 13 (2d8 + 4) slashing damage.
Drop. If a creature is directly below the dropowlbear, the dropowlbear falls and makes a melee attack roll against the target. On a hit, the target takes 10 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage and is grappled (escape DC 14).
The target must also succeed on a DC 14 Constitution check or be stunned until the end of its next turn. If the target is stunned, the dropowlbear can make a beak attack against it as a bonus action.
Description
This monstrous amalgamation of unknown origins is often mistaken as a hoax told to tourists and unprepared adventurers, but the dropowlbear is all too real.
Arboreal Ambushers. Dropowlbears are koala like predators with a large owl-like face and feathers covering its body. It has vestigial flight feathers under its arms that it uses to guide itself on to the back of prey. The dropowlbear has a carnivorous diet, consisting of large mammals, lizards and snakes. The dropowlbear does not have metabolism built for meat and so it will spend most of its time in trees, subsisting of off one hunt for days at a time. In the trees, dropowlbears build nests out of the leaves and branches and sleep in them during the day. During the night, the dropowlbear will jump from tree to tree, looking for a creature sleeping underneath a tree to ambush. Dropowlbears active during the day are most often mothers of baby dropowlbears, or droplets. Droplets require an intensive amount of food to increase the appropriate size in the short time they are juveniles. If not provided with such food, the droplets will resort to cannibalism.
Monstrous Origins. There are not many experts in dropowlbears, as most are eaten before they ever see a dropowlbear. Those who claim to be experts believe the creature arose from experimentation with zorbos, koala like predators who can change natural armor to match their surroundings, and owls. The other theory is that a zorbo ate an owl and was permanently changed to reflect the owl's armor. Either way, people who live in places inhabited by zorbos or dropowlbears share tales of the dropowlbear's screech before it lands on top of its victim, knocking the creature out. Most explorers and scholars consider the dropowlbear to be a legend, never finding any evidence of such a creature. Those who do believe in the existence of the dropowlbear go looking for proof, only to never return from the forest.
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