owlbears have one thought process, attack, kill, eat, sleep. That's the monstrosity. There's no room in that for anything else. Haven't read any forgotten realms or dragonlance in a long time, but the only monstrosities I can recall being enslaved were the hook horrors to the illithids and that was due to the overwhelming power of illithid psionics, not a level 1 spell.
Well,
this was cleared up already and you are right. Yet they keep the rather civilized talk with mommy and even let the cub join us later. Meaning the rules are bent already (also mentioned above). Let the rules be rules for one, it does not sit well with me to have a creature with INT to talk but no capacity to reason?
Unaligned it may be but that only makes it a creature not knowing morale. We have enough humans on this planet that do not have anything that could be called morale. Thats not an issue of intelligence. Intelligence is the capacity to think and reason to a degree. I would need to look up what a score of 3 counts for. Less then 3
usually makes a creature unable to even speak.
This is just a hypothetical discussion anway. I would have loved it to NOT kill the owlbear. First because i like animals, thats off the table, it's "just" a monster so i can slay away without remorse (how discriminating). And second is getting the spear without having to kill it. Also off the table...monster etc. you know :P
Pity anyway.
