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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4696928" data-attributes="member: 13966">Alright, I checked the book and found it.  Wood elven werewolves, that transmit their lycanthropy only through a ritual with another willing elf.  Unfortunately, given the likely short nature of this game, you wouldn't get enough levels before we finished to cover any Level Adjustment or Savage Species progression from lycanthropic benefits.  Though it's possible this game may go on beyond 3rd-level, it's not my current expectation.STILL, if you really want your PC to become a lythari, we can have the transformation start during play, assuming that he/she either already met a lythari and performed the ritual with them, or that he or she meets one during play and undergoes the ritual.  It will hold back your class level/HP/etc. advancement though past 1st-level, since you'll start acquiring a Level Adjustment from the Savage Species progression.Afflicted werewolves have a +2 LA and 2 bonus HD, which I would turn into an LA+1, HD+1, LA+2, HD+2 Savage Species progression.  I may or may not ditch the second point of LA since Lythari have some drawbacks.  Still.........  You'd miss out on your 2nd-level HD, and your 3rd-level HD would be the first wolf HD instead of a normal class level.If you want to start with the ritual already completed, I'll give you a +1 LA to start with and the associated benefits as I'll determine them for Lythari savage progression level 1.  Which would probably just be the Shapechanger subtype, Low-Light Vision (which the elf would already have, anyhow), Alternate Form (but without the animal's bonus HD yet), the chaotic good alignment, and the standard Lythari good looks, along with Control Shape as a class skill.  His or her first transformation would have already occured before play, if starting with the "affliction" of a Lythari, so he or she would be able to try CS checks for controlled transformations.Damage Reduction, Scent, Lycanthropic Empathy, and the Wisdom bonus would be delayed for the later LA and HD increases from the Savage Species progression.  You would still gain Scent in wolf form since all wolves have it regardless, but wouldn't have it in elf-form yet.  Wolf form would have its normal Str/Dex/Con bonuses regardless.</blockquote>

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