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Compared to PnP, the Druid of the Moon bear is awful.

Here is the Brown Bear statblock from Roll20: https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Brown%20Bear

The tooltip doesn't take into account that the Strength becomes that of the beast, the bear only has a claw attack in the game. Not to mention that this bear lacks Multiattack. The Brown Bear form is one of the most iconic forms for a Moon Druid in 5e PnP. In addition, that form has 4 more hit points than it has in the game.

I'd suggest adding real statblocks of the beasts from MM to the druid wildshapes available.

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Honestly, the polar bear should be changed to a Brown Bear, and the Brown Bear changed to a black bear.

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True, but you also don't get it until level 6.

Should they have used a brown bear - possibly, but I doubt they would have given it multiattack, so they would have homebrew it anyway.

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You get brown bear at level 2. Are you suggesting it's better to get polar bear early when it's actually worse than a CR1 brown bear?

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hmmmmmmmm

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The brown bear is probably a bit too strong for the early game of BG3. I bet it would tear up a lot of weaker enemies, like the goblins. In DnD, your DM can prepare encounters for your party and adapt on the fly. A video game could be made to, but I don't expect them to do that. I would be okay if it unlocked at level 4.

That said, polar bear sucks big time. I used it once, and that was only for the hit points. I ended up losing that fight anyway.

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Originally Posted by Ankou
You get brown bear at level 2. Are you suggesting it's better to get polar bear early when it's actually worse than a CR1 brown bear?

No, I am saying that they would have to homebrew any bear, since all of them have multiattack and they are not implementing that into EA yet.

So whether it is black/brown/polar doesn't matter.

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You're more optimistic than me if you think this is a temporary EA issue.


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