Brown Bear

Ursus arctos · Mammal

A solitary forager that feeds in the morning and evening and lies up in thick cover by day, sleeping through the winter from late autumn to spring. It rarely attacks unless surprised at close range with cubs or over food, but then it can kill. Hunters took its meat and hide, and its gall bladder fetched high prices for traditional medicine in Asia.

Danger: Man-killer
How it is met: Alone, at dawn and dusk
Size: Large
In winter: Sleeps through winter

Hear it

Bear Ambush (On Patreon, Guardian tier)

Where it lives

Temperate Forest, Temperate Conifer Forest, Taiga, Grassland, Alpine Meadow, Tundra, Mediterranean Scrub, Cold Desert, Rocky Shore, Sandy Shore

Gives

Brown Bear Hide, Brown Bear Bile

Stat blocks (D&D 5e)

Brown Bear

Large Beast, Unaligned

AC 11 · Initiative +1 (11)

HP 22 (3d10 + 6)

Speed 40 ft., Climb 30 ft.

Str	Dex	Con	Int	Wis	Cha
17 (+3), save +3	12 (+1), save +1	15 (+2), save +2	2 (−4), save −4	13 (+1), save +1	7 (−2), save −2

Skills Perception +3

Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 13

Languages None

CR 1 (XP 200; PB +2)

Actions

Multiattack. The bear makes one Bite attack and one Claw attack.

Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) Piercing damage.

Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) Slashing damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition.

This work includes material from the System Reference Document 5.2.1 ("SRD 5.2.1") by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available at https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd. The SRD 5.2.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

Sources

Tanya Dewey; Liz Ballenger, Ursus arctos (brown bear). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2002.

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