D&D (2024) Lycanthropes in the MM

[wizard71]

So basically trolls that require silver instead of fire?

Better than generic monsters that get hacked down and have lost the flavor they had for 5 editions.

They also would suffer from trolls u that half damage from a coup de grace won’t be fatal. Silver or magic weapons or spells would be required to finish them off.

 

[Stormonu]

I really dislike the new rules for "contracted lycanthropy" in the new stat blocks. I'd much rather have something akin to if the were creature bites someone who is bloodied, they're likely to be afflicted, but not immediately turn them into monsters. The new method is just too gamist for me.

 

[Corinnguard]

I really dislike the new rules for "contracted lycanthropy" in the new stat blocks. I'd much rather have something akin to if the were creature bites someone who is bloodied, they're likely to be afflicted, but not immediately turn them into monsters. The new method is just too gamist for me.

For a human to become a werewolf in Patricia Briggs' Alpha and Omega series, they basically had to be brought to death's door for the transformation to happen. So, to become a werewolf in that series, you had to 'die' as a human and be 'reborn' as a lycanthrope.

"I died, but then I got better."

 

[Remathilis]

I mean, if you want to be true to original werewolf lore, you need a magical fur belt given by Satan to transform into a wolf. None of this silver/full moon stuff Hollywood added.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I don't like it.

 

[Redwizard007]

I mean, if you want to be true to original werewolf lore, you need a magical fur belt given by Satan to transform into a wolf. None of this silver/full moon stuff Hollywood added.

Zeus and King Lycaon sigh Forgotten again

 

[Corinnguard]

Zeus and King Lycaon sigh Forgotten again

I am familiar with that particular Greek myth. In the Anita Blake series by Laurel K. Hamilton, werewolves called themselves the Lukoi in recognition of King Lycaon of Arcadia. The first of their kind to rule openly as a werewolf.

 

[Necropolitan]

I mean, if you want to be true to original werewolf lore, you need a magical fur belt given by Satan to transform into a wolf. None of this silver/full moon stuff Hollywood added.

Or drinking water out of a wolf's pawprint.

 

[Stormonu]

Or drinking water out of a wolf's pawprint.

I've heard of that one before. And wearing the fur of an animal that's been enchanted.

But I'll take the classic hollywood silver & full moon. I mean, we're using Universal Monster movie stuff for vampires, flesh golems and mummies - so why not the werewolf's too?

 

[wizard71]

No PC class or race should have a universal immunity, and there should be a chink in their armor somewhere.

And monks are not weaklings - they are as skilled as any other martial character, with innately supernatural abilities.

Also, learn to take a joke.

Yeah dude, if you dump stat strength you are a weakling. Does not matter if you are a monk or a wizard. You are still wearing robes