Pathfinder 1E Animate Dead & Lycanthrope

[koesherbacon]

I don't think there's anything special to keep in mind, but I wanted to ask anyway. If a Cleric uses Animate Dead on a deceased NPC with lycanthrope, does anything special happen? Or do they rise as a normal skeleton or zombie in the same way any other creature would?

 

[Rakusia]

yeah normal skeleton lycanthropy disappears after death

 

[Warbringer]

No, but I love the idea of a shape changing skeleton

 

[Rakusia]

Well you could say if hes not been dead for very long a lingering effect combined with the magic

 

[Remathilis]

Since the corpse would revert to "natural form" (human), it would just be a normal skeleton.

 

[koesherbacon]

I like the idea about a skeleton changing forms, I might use that even though it's not in the rules. Suddenly, the apparently human skeleton's bone structure shifts into a more "beastal" appearance leading the characters to question whether or not it is actually a human. In that state it gains a bonus to strength and a penalty to defenses as it gives into the animal within.

 

[Warbringer]

I like the idea about a skeleton changing forms, I might use that even though it's not in the rules. Suddenly, the apparently human skeleton's bone structure shifts into a more "beastal" appearance leading the characters to question whether or not it is actually a human. In that state it gains a bonus to strength and a penalty to defenses as it gives into the animal within.

Yeah, the visual is nice. Keep it balanced, no rules needed

 

[koesherbacon]

Right on

 

[Starfox]

By RAW, since a lychantrope is a creature with hit dice, it could be animated as such. By the rules, a dead wererat is still a 2hd creature.

WAI, I think you are all right here - the creature reverts and becomes a normal member of it's humanoid race before it is animated.

 

[Silver Griffin]

I would go with it takes a special procedure to keep some of it's lycanthrope qualities. Just hand wave for an NPC or make the characters spend some time on it & then go with what KosherBacon said.