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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9836950" data-attributes="member: 11760">So, I'm planning on statting up a devil swine or wereboar for next weekend's session. But looking at existing Shadowdark monsters, it's a little weird.There are two lycanthropes in the Shadowdark core book, a rare case of the book going light on Monster Manual/SRD conversions. (I refuse to believe more people needed the chuul converted than the weretiger.)The wererat is level 3. The werewolf is level 4.  Rat is level 1. The wolf is level 2. So it looks like lycanthrophy adds about two levels to the base monster. Shadowdark doesn't actually use templates, but both existing lycanthropes get Impervious (only damaged by silver or magical sources) and Lycanthropy (if 12 or more damage from the same werewolf, contract lycanthropy).So far, so good.But boars are level 3. So a wereboar would be level 5, making them tougher than a werewolf. Werebears would be level 7. It feels weird to me for werewolves to be one of the weakest lycanthropes. Is it just me? Or, alternately, is the +2 level thing just coincidence?I'm also leaning more towards making a unique monster, since I want this particular group of wereboars be a family and didn't intend to have infection be part of their threat. (They're basically the hillbilly cannibals of lots of circa 2000 horror movies.)Thoughts?</blockquote>