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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8984296" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>That's just standard Advancement which is WAY slower than the base dragon age category advancements. which tend to be around +4 Str and +2 Con per age category.</p><p></p><p>Furthermore, each age category is usually a 3 HD step rather than 4 HD.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Y'okay, let's go for that.</p><p></p><p>Let's see, what changes do we need to make…</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Creating a Weredragon</strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: blue">"Weredragon" is a template that can be added to any humanoid or giant (referred to hereafter as the base creature). Becoming a drakanthrope is very much like multiclassing as a dragon and gaining the appropriate Hit Dice.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: blue"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: blue">The weredragon takes on the characteristics of some type of creature of the dragon type (referred to hereafter as the base dragon). The base dragon must be a true dragon <span style="color: red">with a Level Adjustment</span>. Drakanthropes based on normal monster dragons such as dragon turtles or wyverns use the <a href="https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/8126797" target="_blank">Weredrake</a> template instead.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: red">All age categories with Level Adjustments are possible (e.g. a Red weredragon can use a Wyrmling (+4 LA), Very Young (+5 LA) or Young (+6 LA) Red Dragon as the base dragon, but not a juvenile or older Red Dragon. The vast majority of weredragons use wyrmling as the base dragon.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: blue"><strong>Size and Type:</strong> The base creature's type does not change, but the creature gains the shapechanger subtype plus any subtypes possessed by the base dragon.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: blue"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: red">The base creature must be within one size category of any size that the dragon can grow to, including sizes of age categories without Level Adjustments that cannot be used as the base dragon. For example, copper weredragons can be from Diminutive to Colossal in size, ranging from one size smaller than the Tiny copper wyrmling up to one size bigger than a Gargantuan wyrm or great wyrm copper dragon.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>We'll need to cut out a lot of references to "wyrmling" in the remaining text but it should be fairly straightforward.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8984296, member: 57383"] That's just standard Advancement which is WAY slower than the base dragon age category advancements. which tend to be around +4 Str and +2 Con per age category. Furthermore, each age category is usually a 3 HD step rather than 4 HD. Y'okay, let's go for that. Let's see, what changes do we need to make… [INDENT][SIZE=6][B]Creating a Weredragon[/B][/SIZE] [COLOR=blue]"Weredragon" is a template that can be added to any humanoid or giant (referred to hereafter as the base creature). Becoming a drakanthrope is very much like multiclassing as a dragon and gaining the appropriate Hit Dice. The weredragon takes on the characteristics of some type of creature of the dragon type (referred to hereafter as the base dragon). The base dragon must be a true dragon [COLOR=red]with a Level Adjustment[/COLOR]. Drakanthropes based on normal monster dragons such as dragon turtles or wyverns use the [URL='https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/8126797']Weredrake[/URL] template instead.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue][COLOR=red]All age categories with Level Adjustments are possible (e.g. a Red weredragon can use a Wyrmling (+4 LA), Very Young (+5 LA) or Young (+6 LA) Red Dragon as the base dragon, but not a juvenile or older Red Dragon. The vast majority of weredragons use wyrmling as the base dragon.[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=blue][B]Size and Type:[/B] The base creature's type does not change, but the creature gains the shapechanger subtype plus any subtypes possessed by the base dragon. [COLOR=red]The base creature must be within one size category of any size that the dragon can grow to, including sizes of age categories without Level Adjustments that cannot be used as the base dragon. For example, copper weredragons can be from Diminutive to Colossal in size, ranging from one size smaller than the Tiny copper wyrmling up to one size bigger than a Gargantuan wyrm or great wyrm copper dragon.[/COLOR][/COLOR][/INDENT][COLOR=blue][/COLOR] We'll need to cut out a lot of references to "wyrmling" in the remaining text but it should be fairly straightforward. Hopefully. [/QUOTE]
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