Unusual Weres

[Stormborn]

Was just thinking about unusual were-creatures and wondering if anyone had rules/ideas for them:

- A band of werebat goblins rogues infesting an abandoned temple and preying on the city streets by night (in Ptolus w/ ratmen allies maybe)
- An order of paladin werehounds, bread since ancient times to hunt down the enemies of the emperor.
- Werepossums barbarians living in the fetid southern swamps

I am fairly sure that I have seen weregators (Monsters of Faerun perhaps) which might go well in a big city's sewers.


Post your were weirdness here. Refrences to rules systems a plus.

 

[DMH]

Advanced Bestiary has a template for just about any combination for therianthropes. A small selection of what I have considered:

wereflies
goblin werebugbears (and removing bugbears as a seperate critter)
treant wereshambling mound (cursed)
azer werefire bats
kobold wereshocker lizards
kech weresloths (cursed)
human werecockroaches (post apocalyptic setting)
werecarp for an Asian themed setting
ethergaunt weredragons (whole race to make them even more alien, also using cthulhuish style dragon)
hill giant werewyvern

 

[Ilium]

The SRD Lycanthrope template has some restrictions what you can use for the "base animal". If you're willing to ignore those, you can do just about anything. I thought it would be just plain mean to have a hill giant were-kitty. The base animal is a regular housecat.

I really like the werebat goblin rogues. Less silly than my above suggestion is halfling werecats. Since halflings are already small I think Tiny animals are actually legal for them. They'd be very very stealthy, I think.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

were elf. You grow long ears and sex drive increases. Others around you dont mind.

 

[Simm]

If you becme a were elf is your hybrid form a half-elf?

 

[blargney the second]

Wereshark pirates, led by a natural wereshark kobold sorceress.

DMH's ideas are *awesome*.

 

[Huw]

- An order of paladin werehounds, bread since ancient times to hunt down the enemies of the emperor.

I like the sound of that one.

- Werepossums barbarians living in the fetid southern swamps

No. You want wereyapoks. Much cooler than possums.

 

[John Cooper]

I recall separate Dungeon adventures involving the were-eel captain of a ship (I want to say it was by James Wyatt) and another involving a tribe of winter werewolves (were-winter wolves?).

 

[Dragonbait]

I am fairly sure that I have seen weregators (Monsters of Faerun perhaps) which might go well in a big city's sewers.

Those were werecrocs, but D&D does not differentiate between gators, caymans, and crocs.

I thought the weremanta rays from Ravenloft were pretty unusual.

How about a tribe of werepiranhas?

How about a pyramid built and inhabited by weredung beetles?

I liked the unusual idea of the clan of ettin were dire bats. Large, two-headed bats humanoids!

Lycanthropy is fun.

 

[Warbringer]

Were-ducks

No wait, wrong game.