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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zzyzx" data-source="post: 2808105" data-attributes="member: 34319">I have tries doing the same thing, so I understand how difficult it is.From what I read here, this means that a werebear or weretiger needs to take feats to be able toattack in were-form, but the other shapes do not?  That seems very artificial, but I understand you need to do something to balance out the huge animal shape differences.MY SIMILAR ATTEMPT:What I did was to just base the ECL +0 lycanthropes off feats, so that at early levels the characters have a couple of benefits of the animal but not develop the shapechanging ability until a later feat, with a higher prerequisite level depending on the type.  For example, werewolf takes the feat at first level, and gets DR/silver, etc, but only gets his wolf shape feat available at third level.  The werebear gets his animal shape feat available at fifth level, or whatever you feel would balance out other melee-type characters of a similar power level in your campaign.</blockquote>