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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4749544" data-attributes="member: 13966">Dragon Magazine issue 313, November 2003, volume XXVIII (28) featured Savage Species -style advancement for lycanthropic characters, as well as a set of half-monster races.For a lycanthrope, you could either go the natural lycanthrope route and use one of those progressions, or play an afflicted lycanthrope who had multiple class levels beforehand and has only started acquiring lycanthrope 'levels' more recently.The half-monster races detailed near the end of the issue are the Half-Doppelganger, Half-Janni, Half-Minotaur, Half-Nymph, Half-Ogre, Half-Rakshasa, and Half-Satyr.  All are templates for adding to another base creature, such as a human or something.  Any of these would be much easier to use than a pure monster-race.  Half-Doppelgangers, for example, have a +2 Level Adjustment and no racial hit dice (just their base race's stuff and a few doppelganger traits).Besides that, Dragon Magazine issue 317, March 2004, volume 28, features a preview near the end of it for Eberron's Shifter race.  It details the Shifter and their racial traits.  The only drawback to using that as a reference is that it only has 4 sample Shifter feats: Shifter Defense, Healing Factor, Extra Lycanthropic Characteristic, and Great Rend.  That issue also has 4 exotic races from no particular setting; a plant-like race, a golem-like race, a reptilian race, and a savage fey race.Still, if you're looking for a cheap way to get material for one of those character concepts you touched on, buying a single old issue of Dragon Magazine, or finding it in your own collection if any, or finding these specific articles in a Dragon Compendium or something is your best bet.</blockquote>

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