Owlbear - in Other Media

In Other Media

• The owlbear was card #107 of 750 in the 1991 TSR trading cards factory set, and card #117 of 495 in the 1993 TSR trading cards factory set.

• The Harbinger set, the first set of miniatures for the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game, a collectible miniatures game, has an owlbear miniatur. The Blood War set has monster named owlbear ranger. The Against the Giants set includes a furious owlbear.

• In 2012, Wizards of the Coast released a new version of the 1975 adventure board game Dungeon! which features owlbears as opponents.

• The owlbear was also a card in the DragonQuest game (1992).

• The owlbear was depicted in the webcomic The Order of the Stick, where it was presented as a pointless cross between an already dangerous creature (the bear) and a harmless animal (the owl).

• An owlbear also appeared in the webcomic Goblins, a adventure taking place in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, but from the perspective of the creatures that inhabit it, not the players.

• A creature called a nightripper appears in Sagard The Barbarian #2: The Green Hydra game book by Gary Gygax. The nightripper is described and illustrated as a bear with an owl's head but with talons for forepaws. An illustration of it can be found prefacing Section 12: The Kingdom Of Darkness.

• RPG publisher Tricky Owlbear Publishing Inc. uses the term in its company name.

• Musician Dan Marcotte named his first album Manticores and Owlbears.