Adapting the Lycanthrope Template to +0?

[The Grackle]

You should check this stuff out.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/sp/20040117a

You can buy the werewolf template and animal HD in levels instead of getting it all at once w/an LA.

 

[Trench]

You should check this stuff out.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/sp/20040117a

You can buy the werewolf template and animal HD in levels instead of getting it all at once w/an LA.

Now... THAT is a decent little solution. He looses skill points up the wazoo, but he was willing to kill his character and raise him again in order to circumvent the LA... This could work.