Bear, Dream
- Armor Class
- 3 [16]
- Hit Dice
- 8
- Attacks
- Bite or Claw (1d6+2)
- Special
- hug (2d8)
- Move
- 12
- HDE/XP
- 9/1,100
Description
Bears attack by rending opponents with their claws, dragging them in and biting them. All bears are very tough to kill, and are able to move and attack for one round after losing all hit points.
A Dream Bear appears like a black bear, but is phantasmal in nature, hazy and partially transparent with misty currents visible within it.
It attacks by biting and clawing its foes with its front paws; if it rolls a 20 on a d20 for a claw attack against a target, it hugs that target for 2d8 points of hug damage.
Anyone bitten by a dream bear must make a saving throw against magic or suffer from a curse known only as "bear in mind." This curse causes the victim to have vivid, realistic dreams of living as a bear, and strongly compels the afflicted person to behave like a bear. The victim may make a saving throw against magic to resist these impulses for a day. The curse may be removed with a casting of Remove Curse. After a month of this curse the victim must make a saving throw against magic or turn into a dream bear. This check should be performed every month until the curse is removed. This change, if it happens, can only be reversed by a wish. Dream bears live in small communities of a dozen or less deep in the most ancient forests of the world. They are fiercely territorial and will fiercely attack interlopers.
See Also
Other creatures in the Bear category: Bear, Battle, Bear, Black, Bear, Cave, Bear, Ghost, Bear, Grizzly (or Brown), Bear, Long, Bear, Migou, Bear, Polar, Bear, Quill, Common, Bear, Quill, Huge, Bear, Ursine Behemoth.
Source note: This creature is converted from The Basic Fantasy Field Guide of Creatures Malevolent and Benign – Omnibus Edition, 1st Edition Release 4, © 2010–2025 Chris Gonnerman, R. Kevin Smoot, James Lemon, Matt Sluis, and Contributors. The Basic Fantasy Field Guide textual material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; this page adapts that creature to White Box.