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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 814166" data-attributes="member: 463">Well, the only thing he (obviously) changed was that lycanthrope DR wasn't amenable to a +1 magic weapon.&nbsp; Whether the PCs would have known this in advance would IMO depend on a Knowledge Arcana check, the DC determined by the rarity of lycanthropes in the setting.&nbsp; Since none of the PCs apparently even had this skill he very generously gave them a Wilderness Lore skill check instead.IMC 2nd-level PCs who met wererats probably wouldn't even know they were wererats, never mind their precise vulnerabilities.&nbsp; They might think they were humanoid chaos ratmen, and after melee started they might get a Knowledge Arcana check to have heard of wererats &amp; (maybe) their silver vulnerability.&nbsp; IMC, substances often trump magic - you can hurt devils with silver, demons with cold-forged iron, incorporeals with mundane fire, etc - not that the PCs necessarily know that, and they're 9th level+!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 814166, member: 463"] Well, the only thing he (obviously) changed was that lycanthrope DR wasn't amenable to a +1 magic weapon. Whether the PCs would have known this in advance would IMO depend on a Knowledge Arcana check, the DC determined by the rarity of lycanthropes in the setting. Since none of the PCs apparently even had this skill he very generously gave them a Wilderness Lore skill check instead. IMC 2nd-level PCs who met wererats probably wouldn't even know they were wererats, never mind their precise vulnerabilities. They might think they were humanoid chaos ratmen, and after melee started they might get a Knowledge Arcana check to have heard of wererats & (maybe) their silver vulnerability. IMC, substances often trump magic - you can hurt devils with silver, demons with cold-forged iron, incorporeals with mundane fire, etc - not that the PCs necessarily know that, and they're 9th level+! [/QUOTE]

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