Dauntless’s Owlbear-like Shrike is an homage to a classic D&D beast (update)

I geeked out when I saw the Shrike.

Sure, I didn’t let Jesse Houston and Nick Clifford see all of my excitement when the beast appeared. I was checking out Dauntless, the upcoming free-to-play online action-role-playing game from Phoenix Labs. It’s a co-op game that should hit later this year. Houston is one of the studio’s three cofounders, and Clifford runs marketing efforts for the Vancouver-based company.