What Race Is Doric in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves?

In Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Doric has the ability to transform into a beast at will. This is why Edgin decides to recruit her to the team because, with her abilities, she can get into the castle with no one seeing her. Doric also has horns, pointed ears, and a tail. So, what race is Doric?

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What Race Is Doric? Tieflings in Dungeons & Dragons Explained

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Doric is a tiefling. In Dungeons & Dragons, tieflings are humans with demonic ancestry. They are a race whose human ancestors made a pact with devils.

So, a tiefling has both human and demonic characteristics, and they have physical features that distinguish them from humans. Apart from horns, most tieflings have unnatural skin color, dark or pupilless eyes, goat-like legs, or a forked tongue. In Doric’s case, she has horns and a tail.

Tieflings are regarded as a strange group, which is why they are treated as outcasts. Even Doric’s parents didn’t want her because she was a tiefling.

With their devilish appearance, others tend not to trust tieflings and regard them as born evil. However, with Doric, we know that such isn’t the case, as she joins Edgin’s team to help save Neverwinter.

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Why Can Doric Turn Into an Owlbear?

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Doric is also a druid, and her wild shape ability allows her to turn into various beasts, such as a fly, mouse, cast, hawk, deer, axe beak, horse, and owlbear.

Doric’s ability to transform into an owlbear in the movie had been met with controversy. In the game, druids cannot transform into an owlbear because the latter is classified as a monstrosity, which is an unnatural creature born out of magical experiments or curses.

According to the movie’s prequel book titled “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: The Druid’s Call” by E. K. Johnston, Doric can turn into an owlbear because she believes that owlbears are not monsters.

She came to this conclusion after she encountered one and realized it was just scared and alone. As Doric explained in the novel, she just knew that an owlbear was not a monster, and it's something that you, yourself, must know in order for it to work.

Additionally, in a Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves commercial, the party is reminded that a Dungeon Master’s word is final. So, if a Dungeon Master decides that a druid can transform into an owlbear, then “it’s okay.”

This is also in line with D&D’s “Rule of Cool” – where rules can be broken if something will make the game more fun and exciting. As co-director Jonathan Goldstein explained (via IGN):

"We know that technically, it's not permissible, but we subscribe to the 'Rule of Cool.' And we felt that if we, as the dungeon masters of this movie, would let our players do this, then why should we deprive the audience of something that's as cool and fun as this?"

So, all of these explain why Doric, a tiefling druid, can wild shape into an owlbear.

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