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Message: <blockquote data-quote="insanogeddon" data-source="post: 4783175" data-attributes="member: 82822">lolYou must have thought i had lost it...Suggesting rat: +6 dex, +2 con over Tiger: +12 Str, +4 Dex, +6 Conif it was the same cost. Unfort HD need to be considered. Con and Str tend to make up for HD and attack bonus exp. if spring attacking or charging or bows or attack of opportunity tumble/reach build. the other good one is lycanthrope (were wolf). 2 HDfor: +2 str, +4 dex, +4 conand maybe boar +4 str, +6 con. 3 HD The basics are what sells it tho not the animal: +2 wisdom, Iron Will as a bonus feat, +2 AC, DR 5 silver, scent, low light vision, Alternate form for spying/traveling/being ridden etc, empathy with your animal type for cool roleplaying opportunities and habits, the 'cursed hero' archetype you get to play to, and its basic and mythological not some abberation from a splat book. Alignment: Any. Noble creatures such as bears, eagles, and lions tend to produce good-aligned lycanthropes. Sinister creatures such as rats, snakes, and wolves tend to produce evil-aligned lycanthropes. This is a reflection of how these animals are perceived, not any innate quality of the animal itself, so the alignment of the animal form can be arbitrarily assigned. Digression: Played a wild elf monk/kensai archer with a mate who was a wood elf rogue 1/ranger ++ 2wpn fighter (competative half-brothers in game..same dad different moms, he was a high elf sword man AND archer AND caster from a 2nd ed game that knocked up our moms and abandoned us but we sorta want to be as recognised/validated).. bastard children as we were in a further blow we we got lycanthropy... rat ! He took war shaper for +4 str and con and immune to crits.. control shape was a hassle sometimes but always in an amusing way: fire balled/turned into a rat dropping bow and having to fight as a poxy yet supprisingly effective rat... brother was a toughfer rat (we often fought as rats) but I had a magic bite, was fast, good AC, slow fall and immune to disease (in your face brother) due to monk. It was powerful and really memorable with heaps of roleplaying opps, great scouting fun/torture with the invis mage and his nasty familiar, and character content/room to for the DM to interact with to enrichen our specific imersion. Epic.</blockquote>

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