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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5969865" data-attributes="member: 57383">I was posting something about this yesterday just as the Enworld forums went wonky and lost it, but fortunately I had the prescience to save it.Anyhow, what I proposed was adding an "Alternate Werejaguars" to the CC, like so:* * * Alternative WerejaguarsAs well as the standard werejaguar described above, there are a number of rare variations.Jaguar PriestSome priests of Tezcatlipoca are afflicted with lycanthropy as a gift    from their god.  They become afflicted werejaguars with the following    changes to the werejaguar template: jaguar priests are always Chaotic    Evil, and their shapechanging ability goes through a 28 day cycle.  They    spend one week in humanoid form, one week as a hybrid, one week in    jaguar form, and one week again as a hybrid before repeating the cycle.     Jaguar priests never learn the Control Shape skill, as it is  forbidden  in  their religion, and, as afflicted lycanthropes, they  cannot spread  the  curse of lycanthropy.This variant is based on the werejaguar in the adventure "Mechica" by Gali Sanchez from Dragon Magazine <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=70" target="_blank">#70</a>  (1983).Obsidian WerejaguarSome werejaguars have damage reduction that is penetrated by obsidian instead of silver. Mercury is a deadly poison to an obsidian werejaguar (Ingested DC 18, Initial Damage 2d6, Secondary Damage 2d6). Despite their name, "black panthers" are just as rare among obsidian werejaguars as they are among standard werejaguars.This variant is based on the werejaguar from Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1994).Mystaran Hollow World WerejaguarStandard werejaguars live in the tropical jungles on the surface of Mystara, but in the hollow interior of that world live another kind of werejaguar. A Hollow World werejaguar is not affected by the phase of the moon — indeed, there are no moons inside Mystara's Hollow World — but has shapeshifting problems based on hunger. A Mystaran Hollow World werejaguar gains the Hollow Hunger ability:Hollow Hunger (Ex): The lycanthropes of Mystara's Hollow World are not tied to the cycle of the moon, their shapeshifting is driven by hunger instead. A Hollow World lycanthrope (both true and afflicted lycanthropes) can only derive nourishment by eating fresh meat while in animal or hybrid form. It may not satisfy its hunger with any other food. If a Hollow World lycanthrope goes for 24 hours without satisfying its hunger for flesh, it must succeed at a DC20 Control Shape check or involuntarily assume animal form and hunt for prey. If it succeeds, the lycanthrope must make additional Control Shape checks every 24 hours (DC 20 plus 5 per additional day), or whenever it is presented with fresh meat or prey. Once a hunger Hollow World lycanthrope makes an involuntarily change, it cannot change back to humanoid form until it has fed. This variant is based on the werejaguar from HWR1 - Hollow World: Sons of Azcan (1991).Ravenloft Werejaguar ("Jagwere")In Ravenloft there exists a variety of werejaguar  that cannot shapeshift,  but always takes the form of a jaguar-humanoid  hybrid. Jagweres are vulnerable to darkwood instead of silver, and have  an  irrational terror of fire. This monster was renamed the <a href="http://creaturecatalog.enworld.org/converted/view_c.php?CreatureID=1995" target="_blank">Jagwere</a> to avoid confusion with the standard werejaguar. It originally appeared as a "werejaguar" in the Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendix III: Creatures of Darkness (1994).Sample WerejaguarsWerejaguarAs appears in the current CC.Werejaguar WitchdoctorIt seems a shame to waste my "Jaguar Priest" writeup, so I'd just rename as a standard Afflicted Werejaguar cleric and note that its stats can be used for a "Jaguar Priest".</blockquote>

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