IF SSG had any marketing sense.... there would be a druid wildshape to an owlbear!

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#2, OP, you're basing this on the movie, which is not a WotC sanctioned game.

Keep hearing this line of thought but if it appeared in the movie it was sanctioned by wotc and therefore officially part of dnd and thus ddo. In legal speak, the movie is precedent.