They’re predatory, they’re not nice to run into in the middle of the night, but they’re not about to wage war or take over the nearby village.īugbears with a steady food supply would be harmless if it weren’t for their religious beliefs. The presence of bugbears in an area is no more dangerous and just as common as the presence of wolves.
It’s this dimwitted lethargy that has kept bugbears from ever becoming a serious threat. Bugbears usually want nothing more than a full belly, a cave to sleep in, and perhaps a weak servant to bring them some more snacks. They enjoy bullying and enslaving weaker creatures and even eating other humanoids when the opportunity arises, but as with everything they do, they do so lazily, and only when convenient. Rarely living in groups larger than a dozen or so, bugbears rarely are concerned with more than their own survival and perhaps the survival of their gang. Where goblins launch raids and hobgoblins build armies, the bugbears are lazy opportunists. But unlike other goblins and hobgoblins, a lurking and potential threat is exactly what they’re content to be. This perception is justified, for the most part. Bugbear Cultureīugbears are seen as monsters, boogeymen, things that stalk silently through the woods and outskirts of civilization that will surely come and snatch up the children who don’t obey their parents. Bugbears are goblins with a lot more muscle, hair, killer instinct, and less scheming. It essentially means “scary goblin” and that’s exactly how D&D portrays them. We get the word “bugbear” by combining an old English word “ bugge" (a frightening thing), and the Old Welsh word “ bwg” (evil spirit or goblin), this is also where we get the term “boogeyman” and “bugaboo”. Your first and quite understandable thought hearing the word “bugbear” is probably some kind of insectile grizzly and may have been surprised to find out they were a sort of big furry goblin. What are they? How do they play? Grab your talking trophy heads and follow us into the cave as we go through everything you need to know. Now in 5th edition we get a chance to play the fuzzy beasties for ourselves. Perhaps the most misleadingly named of the fantasy races, bugbears are the hairy goblinoid boogeymen that have stalked the bestiaries since the very first edition of D&D.
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