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Message: <blockquote data-quote="candidus_cogitens" data-source="post: 1251301" data-attributes="member: 770">Well, first of all, thanks for the comments.  I had not read that article on the WotC website.What I intend to do in my campaign is to attack my players with lycanthropes.  Specifically, I was thinking of werepanthers.  (I have a tendency to make things difficult for myself, so I chose an animal type that is not given a specific lycanthropy template.)The way you describe the template idea, it sounds very reasonable.  The problem is that it doesn't work exactly as you describe.  The templates in Dragon 313 spread the abilities out over more levels than the ECL rating would suggest.  Thus, if the ECL is to be trusted as an accurate measure of power, and if these templates are intended to replicate as nearly as possible the power level of the book monsters, then indeed these templates are underpowered.  For example, a weretiger is an ECL +5.  But Dragon gives us a nine-level template.If you ask me, the bottom line is whether the template matches the power of the standard character classes.  I suppose the easiest character class to compare with would be the monk, since the monk has a d8 hit die, and gets unarmed attack abilities.  Still, the comparison is not easy.  It's difficult for me to calculate what is equivalent to what.  That's why I asked for others' opinions.  My intuitive sense is that these templates are somewhat weak, but I'd like to know what others think.</blockquote>

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