Undead Owlbear

I decided to look up the 5e Owlbear stats after watching the new D&D movie trailer, and I noticed that it says the Owlbear is a "Large Undead" creature. ( Owlbear | D&D 5th Edition on Roll20 Compendium ).  Normal Owlbears are not undead, they are a "Monstrosity", you should definitely fix that!  (Here is the D&D Beyond listing so you can see:  Owlbear - Monsters - D&D Beyond (dndbeyond.com) )

just checked the compendium (Monster Manual) and it states it is a Large Monstrosity.

The version from the Lost Mine of Phandelver compendium source, does indeed say "undead". I'll file a report. (This has become a tempest in a teapot among fandom. The Compendium is correct; the owlbear is a monstrosity. The character in the movie trailer becomes an owlbear for whatever in-movie reasoning.)

keithcurtis said: (This has become a tempest in a teapot among fandom. The Compendium is correct; the owlbear is a monstrosity. The character in the movie trailer becomes an owlbear for whatever in-movie reasoning.) Rule of Cool :) The movie is obviously based on a homebrew. 

Or it could have just been a Polymorph instead of wildshape....

Or "relax kid, it's just a movie"

keithcurtis said: Or "relax kid, it's just a movie" ^^^THIS^^^  lol

Rick A. said: keithcurtis said: (This has become a tempest in a teapot among fandom. The Compendium is correct; the owlbear is a monstrosity. The character in the movie trailer becomes an owlbear for whatever in-movie reasoning.) Rule of Cool :) The movie is obviously based on a homebrew.  I'm hoping it's actually an early look at a new feat coming in the 50th anniversary update that allows a Druid the option to Wildshape into a select few Monstrosity/Magical Beasts that don't have too many magical abilities.

Maybe someone cast Animate Dead on the owlbear after the last set of adventurers killed it?

I don't think anything in the rule prevents an Owlbear to be re-animated as an undead creature though, right? As for that movie trailer... That Mimic looks sooo cool ^.^