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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9577076" data-attributes="member: 54629">On D&amp;D Beyond, the statblock links to the PHB glossary definition of a curse, which states &quot;Some game effects curse a creature or an object. The effect that confers a curse defines what the curse does. Curses can be removed by the Remove Curse and Greater Restoration spells or other magic that explicitly ends curses.&quot;Yeah. I mean, while 2014 had rules for lycanthrope and vampire PCs, they weren't good rules. In one of my first ever 5e campaigns, one of the PCs got turned into a wererat and instantly became overpowered thanks to the damage immunities. Even regeneration would've been too OP for a PC.I think WotC is just doubling down on lycanthropes being monsters regardless of their alignment. Werebears might be good, but they're based on beings like Beorn from The Hobbit, and let's not forget how Bilbo and the dwarves had to walk on eggshells so as not to upset him and get themselves killed by him.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 9577076, member: 54629"] On D&D Beyond, the statblock links to the PHB glossary definition of a curse, which states [I]"Some game effects curse a creature or an object. The effect that confers a curse defines what the curse does. Curses can be removed by the Remove Curse and Greater Restoration spells or other magic that explicitly ends curses."[/I] Yeah. I mean, while 2014 had rules for lycanthrope and vampire PCs, they weren't good rules. In one of my first ever 5e campaigns, one of the PCs got turned into a wererat and instantly became overpowered thanks to the damage immunities. Even regeneration would've been too OP for a PC. I think WotC is just doubling down on lycanthropes being monsters regardless of their alignment. Werebears might be good, but they're based on beings like Beorn from The Hobbit, and let's not forget how Bilbo and the dwarves had to walk on eggshells so as not to upset him and get themselves killed by him. [/QUOTE]

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