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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 4284454" data-attributes="member: 114">I can tell you that the introductory pages of the PHB tell the new player that they can play the 'playable races' in the PHB, but not monsters.Traditionally when a PC succumbed to lycanthropy they became an NPC anyway, in all the games I'd played in (with the exception of games specifically about werewolves such as WoD, of course!). It might be worth saying that if you want to play an afflicted lycanthrope it might be worth looking at an RPG which is specifically dedicated to it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Eberron had a major historical 'thing' based upon the problem of transmittable lycanthropy, in terms of the crusade which the Silver Flame launched against them - so when Eberron stuff starts appearing in 2009 you might see some useful details then, but you might not want to wait that long!Apparently the disease rules in the DMG are rather nifty, and it might be quite possible to introduce a 'lycanthropy disease'.At any rate, it looks like you and your DM would have to come up with a whole range of homebrewed stuff to support this at the moment - which probably shouldn't be too much of a surprise at this stage in the game.Cheers</blockquote>