KEEN NOSE - You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks involving scent.
BEAR'S POUNCE - If you move at least 20 feet and hit a creature with a claw attack, the target must make a Strength saving throw (DC 17) or be forced prone. If the target fails, you also can make a bite attack as a bonus action.
MULTIATTACK - the bear makes three attacks: one with its bite and to with its claws.
BITE - Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 1d8+9 piercing damage.
CLAWS - Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 2d6+9 slashing damage.
Description
This very large bear has long legs and a short, wide muzzle with powerful jaws. Black ring-like markings mask its eyes.
The short-faced bear-usually known simply as the “long bear” or the “great bear” by the tribes who share their home-is one of the largest and most aggressive carnivores of the continent, and one of the biggest bears that has ever lived. Only the largest cave bears (or dire bears) top it in size and weight. A typical short-faced bear stands about 5-1/2 feet high at the shoulder and weighs more than 2,500 pounds. Standing upright, it towers almost 11 feet tall.
Long-legged and tall, the short-faced bear is only distantly related to its brown bear or cave bear cousins.
It is a fast sprinter with good endurance, and usually runs down its prey on open ground. The bear is also known to aggressively drive lesser predators from their kills, and mammoth hunters in the Lands of the Long Shadow frequently have a harder time dealing with a scavenging bear than killing the mammoth in the first place.
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