Nurturing cub · Physical
Small is a relative kindness. A cub has not yet learned restraint, and its family has opinions about strangers.
Reference statistics
Basic difficulty · ordinary profile before temporary states and encounter adjustments
- HP
- 10
- Armor class
- 11
- Attack
- +1
- Damage
- d4+0
- Initiative
- 16
- Strikes
- 1
Weaknesses Void
Resistances Frost
Polymorph immunity No authored immunity
Traits and special behavior
Hug Mama. The cub has 20 mana and spends 1 on each heal. It chooses the eligible ally with the lowest remaining-health fraction, below full health and missing at least 3 HP. It restores twice the result of d4+2, capped at the missing HP. Self-healing requires health below 1%. Otherwise it attacks.
Flight after loss. A surviving cub flees only after the full action that kills its mother. Killing both in the same action produces no flee or mercy outcome.
See the condition reference for the shared effects, and enemy tuning for difficulty-wide chance adjustments.
Statistics by difficulty
| Difficulty | HP | AC | Attack | Damage | Strikes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 10 | 11 | +1 | d4+0 | 1 |
| Advanced | 22 | 16 | +5 | d4+4 | 1 |
| Expert | 33 | 22 | +8 | d4+8 | 1 |
| Master | 45 | 24 | +10 | d4+10 | 1 |
| Master+ | 60 | 26 | +11 | d4+14 | 1 |
Includes explicit tier overrides and the final maximum-HP multiplier. Damage is the ordinary die and bonus, before final outgoing multipliers. Rage, growth, buffs, encounter adjustments and special action damage are not baked into this table.
Current appearances
| Adventure | Location | Encounter roster |
|---|---|---|
| The Heart of the Forest | The Deep Dark | Owlbear Cub × 1 |
Detailed reference
These panels retain the exact authored configuration, including unscaled base values. For tier overrides, −1 Attack or damage bonus and zero HP or strikes mean “inherit”; tier indices run from 0 (Basic) to 4 (Master+). Field values and message templates are shown as reference data, not additional rules.
Creature configuration
- Stable identifier
- owlbearCub
- Attack Text
- {actor} swipes with his small claws.
- Name
- Owlbear Cub
- Plate Name
- Cub
- HP
- 10
- Armor class
- 11
- Attack
- 1
- Damage die
- 4
- Damage bonus
- 0
- Initiative
- 16
- Artwork registry index
- 19
- Role
- Nurturing cub
- Visual Scale
- 0.75
- Mana
- 20
- Flee On Defeat Of
- owlbearMother
- Flee Message
- owlbear_cub_flees
- Support
- Name
- Hug Mama
- Type
- heal
- Targeting
- lowestHpPercentAlly
- Cost
- 1
- Damage die
- 4
- Damage bonus
- 2
- Minimum Missing
- 3
- Multiplier
- 2
- Threshold
- 1
- Self Threshold
- 0.01
- Sound
- combat.hugMama
- Weaknesses
- Void
- Resistances
- Frost
- Attack Sound
- combat.owlbearSwipe
Encounter configurations (1)
Whole encounter rewards and modifiers are shown here; they are not rewards for defeating this creature alone. Legacy fields remain visible for configuration audits.
- Stable identifier
- owlbear-den
- Enemies
- owlbearMother
- owlbearCub
- Opening
- An owlbear shields her cub among crushed ferns. Neither welcomes visitors.
- Gold
- 36
- Xp
- 40
- Spared Enemy
- owlbearCub
- Spared Xp Percent
- 20
- Spared Xp Message
- <b>+20% XP: Mercy in the undergrowth. The cub lives to trouble another picnic.</b>
Artwork and presentation
- Resource
- JournalArt/Adventures/HeartOfForest/Creatures/OwlbearCub
- Registrations
- Resource
- JournalArt/Adventures/HeartOfForest/Creatures/OwlbearCub
- Height Units
- 0.5
- Body Height
- 0.9850980392156863
- Ground Y
- 0.00784313725490196
- Center X
- 0.5044570502431118
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