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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 2441144" data-attributes="member: 7396">Right after 3e came out, I ran Castle Amber as the adventure to kick off the campaign. The druid ended up as a werewolf- he was triply-cursed, actually: he read a cursed scroll, and activated a glyph which cursed him with lycanthropy, and also was bitten, or something else that I can't remember. At any rate, there's tons of this stuff in Castle Amber- I dare any party to come out of that dungeon without at least one lycanthrope PC.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Anyhow, he was a lycanthrope the entire time he played, until the player moved away a few months later. I even had a prestige class for him to take, based off the lycanthropic classes in Creature Crucible 4 (Night Howlers). He especially needed the class because he constantly changed voluntarily, and would then miss his check to maintain alignment and attack the party. Some people never learn, I guess- which is why they eventually killed him.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> They had him raised later.Having a lycanthropic PC worked out pretty well, actually. The first night of the full moon, the party was staying in a castle with an evil enchantress who had charmed a couple of PCs. When the moon rose and all the howling started, they realized the druid had gone out into th woods and followed him. This gave them the opportunity to meet up with the enchantress' enemy, a werewolf lord who agreed to train the druid in exchange for help against the enchantress. A cool session of betrayal, intrigue, and toothy combat then followed.I've been playing in an online Blackmoor game (currently on hiatus) in which my arcane warrior was also made into a werewolf (my PCs always seem to get turned into odd things, but this is the first werewolf. Usually I'm becoming a vampire or getting possessed by something instead). Unfortunately, the arcane warrior is sort of like an arcane paladin, and has similar alignment and multiclassing restrictions. Plus, I'm a member of a group that tracks down rogue spellcasters and evil monsters and destroys them. So there's a good chance that they might kill me if they find out, even if I can keep myself from going berserk and not lose all my class abilities. Still, it's been pretty cool, even if I'm not sure how it will end.</blockquote>

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