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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khaalis" data-source="post: 3086954" data-attributes="member: 2167">Hello all. I am working on a race for a homebrew world that is meant to be a Lycanthropic descendant race. Not as powerful as True Lyncthropes, but descended from a line of human/true lycanthrope breeding. However, not as distantly descended as Eberron Shifters.What I have so far is the following:Racial Traits:·    +2 Strength, -2 Charisma: Lycans are strong and sinewy but their predatory and aggressive nature makes it difficult for them to blend in with others socially.·    Medium Size: As medium-sized creatures, lycans have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.·    Lycan base speed is 30 feet.·    Shapechanger Subtype: Lycans are humanoids with the shapechanger subtype. However, due to the unique physiology of their lycnathropic nature, they are immune to the touch of draconic blood and can never assume the dragonblood subtype. ·    Low-Light Vision: A lycan can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. They retain the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.·    Scent (Ex): Lycans have the scent special quality.·    +2 racial bonus on Balance, Climb and Jump, Listen and Move Silently checks: A lycan’s animalistic heritage enhances many of their skills. ·    Hybrid Form (Ex): Each lycan has an animal that they are connected to, due to their lycanthropic heritage chosen from: bear, boar, rat, tiger, wolf or wolverine. This choice is made at 1st level and cannot be change.  As a standard action, the lycan can assume a humanoid form that takes on the physical aspects of its animal form, such as fur, carnivorous teeth, tail, skeletal structure such as a muzzle, and posture as well as growing in size by roughly a foot, and gaining roughly 100 pounds. However, they remain a medium sized creature, and thus armor and weapons remain useful in hybrid form. A lycan in hybrid form has the following special qualities:Natural Weapons: A lycan in hybrid form gains two claw attacks and a bite attack as natural weapons. These weapons deal damage based on the hybrid form’s size (considered large with powerful build, thus claw 1d6, bite 1d8). A hybrid may attack with a weapon and a bite, or may attack with all three of its natural weapons. The bite attack of a hybrid is a secondary attack (-5 to hit). Powerful Build: The physical stature of the lycan’s hybrid lets them function in many ways as if they were one size category larger. Whenever a lycan is subject to a size modifier or special size modifier for an opposed check (such as during grapple checks, bull rush attempts, and trip attempts), the lycan is treated as one size larger if doing so is advantageous to him. A lycan is also considered to be one size larger when determining whether a creature's special attacks based on size (such as improved grab or swallow whole) can affect them. A lycan can also use weapons designed for a creature one size larger without penalty. However, their space and reach remain those of a creature of their actual size. The benefits of this racial trait stack with the effects of powers, abilities, and spells that change the subject's size category.·    Level Adjustment: +1 However, I have been thinking that the class might be better balanced by limiting the Hybrid Form ability to 1+Wis modifier (min 1) times per day with duration of 10 minutes per character level. This prevents the character from simply remaining in Hybrid form 90% of the time. However, then I wonder if limiting the class's true feature to X/day, that I should in exchange, remove the Level Adjustment.  Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?Thanks.</blockquote>

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