Uncover the secrets of obtaining the Owlbear Cub in Baldur’s Gate 3. Our guide ensures you’ll have this lovable companion by your side.
Baldur’s Gate 3, the story-based RPG tasks players with tons of challenges in all 3 acts. Players have to meet and befriend NPCs and complete their questlines to progress. In every chapter, you will meet an NPCs. Most NPCs are humans and some of them are creatures. One rare NPC that you find in the 1st act is Owlbear and its Cub. Yes, these half-owls are NPCs and potential companions.
Owlbear Cub is often seen in its cave near Druid Grove, Silvanus Grove and Blighted Village. Owlbear Cub is guarded by its mother Owlbear. You have to succeed in an Animal Handling check to recruit this NPC to your party. Here’s all about the Owlbear NPC in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Owlbear Cub!
Owlbear Cub is located at the Owlbear Nest. You can find the NPC at campsites and goblin camps sometimes. Once you meet the Owlbear at its nest, you have to use your wisdom skills and pass a check.
Also, you can use animal speaking spells to indicate you are not a threat to the cub. If you pass the checks, you will be able to recruit the owlbear cub after a short battle with its mother. You can slay the Owlbear and take its cub to your campsite.
Goblin Camp
The next option is to meet the Cub in Goblin Camp, located south of Druid Grove and northeast of Blighted Village. Here, you have to find the cub near the entrance. If you spared it in a previous encounter, you will be able to meet another NPC called Krolla.
There will be a new game here known as the Chicken Chase or Chicken Run. Your goal is to participate in the game and become the best chicken chaser to find the cub. There are numerous options to invite Owlbear Cub to your party. Here’s what you can do,
- Call the sport as cruel and then you have to convince Krolla. Persuade and request the NPC to get Cub as a gift
- You can also convince the cub and start an attack against the NPC, Krolla. Once the cub defeats Krolla, you can invite her to your camp
- The other way is to either accept the chicken game challenge or best all goblin camp enemies and invite the cub as well. Defeating the entire Goblin camp enemies is a daunting task and it’s better to go with the other 3 choices easily
Camp
Again, you can find the Cub and this time it’s towards the northeast of the Silvanus Grove. You can feed some supplies to the cub and it will also disappear to the wilderness suddenly. You can wait for sometime and once the cub returns from the forest, you have to check on its paws and claws. The Owlbear Cub will be hurt badly and assist the NPC and heal it. The cub will call you nice and you can recruit her to your camp finally.
That’s how you will be able to get the Owlbear Cub in Baldur’s Gate 3. Owlbear Cub is an innocent creature and you will be able to gain some buffs by assisting this NPC.
Frequently Asked Question
Once you level up in the game, you can unlock new spells for each class. You can master them by taking a glance on scrolls. Once you learn more about spells, you can add them to your spell books.
Leveling up in BG 3 is easy and difficult at the same time. It’s all about exploring and deploying the right strategies against enemies. All you need to do is to farm xp by exploring and playing quests. With these, you can level up easily.
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