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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2335517" data-attributes="member: 707">I agree that if you ignore the LA of the wererat template and simply allow a wererat to hang with a 1st-level party, you're going to have problems.The LA is there for a reason.&nbsp; Either monster class levels need to be used, so the wererat slowly comes into his powers like any other class, or you need to start your game at a higher ECL, allowing the wererat to spend his ECL on the template, while others gain additional levels.I have a wererat in my current game.&nbsp; Currently, he's an ECL 6 in a 6th-level party.&nbsp; While he's hard to hurt (so far he's managed to keep his nature a secret, so he hasn't had to deal with enemies bearing silver weapons...yet) he also doesn't do a huge amount of damage.&nbsp; The LA of the wererat plus the racial hit die really are a balancing factor.&nbsp; Thus far, the wererat hasn't proved a problem at all in my campaign.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 2335517, member: 707"] I agree that if you ignore the LA of the wererat template and simply allow a wererat to hang with a 1st-level party, you're going to have problems. The LA is there for a reason. Either monster class levels need to be used, so the wererat slowly comes into his powers like any other class, or you need to start your game at a higher ECL, allowing the wererat to spend his ECL on the template, while others gain additional levels. I have a wererat in my current game. Currently, he's an ECL 6 in a 6th-level party. While he's hard to hurt (so far he's managed to keep his nature a secret, so he hasn't had to deal with enemies bearing silver weapons...yet) he also doesn't do a huge amount of damage. The LA of the wererat plus the racial hit die really are a balancing factor. Thus far, the wererat hasn't proved a problem at all in my campaign. [/QUOTE]

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