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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 568604" data-attributes="member: 8158">Caliban saidThis comment demonstrates not just close-mindedness, but more than a little naivete. Sure, lycanthropy's a curse. I've heard of cursed heroes before, haven't we all? There's been more than a few heroic vampires in fiction, for instance, and indeed even in D&D fiction, despite the fact that they're all supposed to be chaotic evil. I wouldn't be at all surprised to pick up a Forgotten Realms novel and discover a protagonist that's afflicted by lycanthropy (something more high-powered than wereratism though). If D&D has heroic vampires, liches, drow, minotaurs, etc. taking part in adventures and activley flouting the evil bent that the evil bent that their creature-type mandates, then why the heck not a wererat fighter? Caliban was more on-target with a statement made in the previous paragraph, namely that lycanthropy is balanced-out by its drawbacks. If a player's willing and able to cope with them, then more power to him--literally.</blockquote>