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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 5472866" data-attributes="member: 52734">Increases to strength, durability, etc. are also tied to spells like Enlarge, Bull's Strength, Divine Power and the like.&nbsp; It need not be associated with the barbarian's rage so much as a &quot;powerful augmentation&quot;.&nbsp; Unless you want to argue that by say, using Enlarge, the paladin is risking becoming a brute like the Hulk - and such an interpretation is not suppoted by the rules, as there is no decrease to intelligence.Unfortunately, by doing so, you are ignoring a large part of D&amp;D's history as well as actual myth (as is your wont to do, if you so desire - the game is about choices).&nbsp; However, Werebears have been in the game since at least 1E (if not OD&amp;D) and I beleive they were modeled on Beorn and his band from the Hobbit (I have no idea where Tolkien picked werebears up from mythology - possibly the original idea of werewolves; those who gained the ability to adopt an animal's strength and shape by donning its pelt).&lt;EDIT:&gt;&nbsp; And, if you've seen or read C.S. Lewis's Voyage of the Dawn Treader, well, there's your weredragon...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 5472866, member: 52734"] Increases to strength, durability, etc. are also tied to spells like Enlarge, Bull's Strength, Divine Power and the like. It need not be associated with the barbarian's rage so much as a "powerful augmentation". Unless you want to argue that by say, using Enlarge, the paladin is risking becoming a brute like the Hulk - and such an interpretation is not suppoted by the rules, as there is no decrease to intelligence. Unfortunately, by doing so, you are ignoring a large part of D&D's history as well as actual myth (as is your wont to do, if you so desire - the game is about choices). However, Werebears have been in the game since at least 1E (if not OD&D) and I beleive they were modeled on Beorn and his band from the Hobbit (I have no idea where Tolkien picked werebears up from mythology - possibly the original idea of werewolves; those who gained the ability to adopt an animal's strength and shape by donning its pelt). <EDIT:> And, if you've seen or read C.S. Lewis's [I]Voyage of the Dawn Treader[/I], well, there's your weredragon... [/QUOTE]

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