Originally Posted by Silver/
If the mother is healed, it'd be nice if she were able to kill the goblins instead.

Hah! Yes, even if some of the goblins still escaped with the cub to keep that bit of the story the same, it would be good to have the survivors complain that the (fully healed) owlbear killed most of their party and they barely escaped with their lives.

"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"