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<blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3432331" data-attributes="member: 7883">Hordes of the Abyss is another supplement which discusses PC alignments being changed by an in-game effect.&nbsp; There's a disease that causes victim's alignments to irrevocably go to Chaotic Evil.&nbsp; The player can't just &quot;decide&quot; he's going to be lawful good again.&nbsp; It becomes a roleplaying thing.Another place in the book has a fiend that conducts experiments that apply the half-fiend template to characters....turning them to Chaotic Evil.I think there's enough precedent to say that PCs can't just pick and choose this kind of thing whenever they want.&nbsp; Hence, lycanthropy *can* affect a character's alignment.&nbsp; To do otherwise, and have a bunch of LG werewolf PCs running around is basically allowing PCs to cherry pick the powerful abilities of the template, without the negatives (ie. alignment).&nbsp; It's pretty basic to the idea of werebeasts that you could have a LG character who gets wounded, and a month later, the morning after the full moon, wakes up in a ditch somewhere, with torn and bloody clothes, and goes home to find out that during the night, some horrid wolf-creature burst in through his family home's door, and massacred his siblings and parents.&nbsp; That's basically one of the reasons no player would really want the template for their character.&nbsp; Maybe the character realizes what has happened, and turns himself in...and he's either cured, or killed.&nbsp; Or, if he doesn't turn himself in, and tries to hide it, and deals with it himself, he's basically refusing to admit that he's responsible for innocents being killed.....and becomes no longer LG.Banshee</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Banshee16, post: 3432331, member: 7883"] Hordes of the Abyss is another supplement which discusses PC alignments being changed by an in-game effect. There's a disease that causes victim's alignments to irrevocably go to Chaotic Evil. The player can't just "decide" he's going to be lawful good again. It becomes a roleplaying thing. Another place in the book has a fiend that conducts experiments that apply the half-fiend template to characters....turning them to Chaotic Evil. I think there's enough precedent to say that PCs can't just pick and choose this kind of thing whenever they want. Hence, lycanthropy *can* affect a character's alignment. To do otherwise, and have a bunch of LG werewolf PCs running around is basically allowing PCs to cherry pick the powerful abilities of the template, without the negatives (ie. alignment). It's pretty basic to the idea of werebeasts that you could have a LG character who gets wounded, and a month later, the morning after the full moon, wakes up in a ditch somewhere, with torn and bloody clothes, and goes home to find out that during the night, some horrid wolf-creature burst in through his family home's door, and massacred his siblings and parents. That's basically one of the reasons no player would really want the template for their character. Maybe the character realizes what has happened, and turns himself in...and he's either cured, or killed. Or, if he doesn't turn himself in, and tries to hide it, and deals with it himself, he's basically refusing to admit that he's responsible for innocents being killed.....and becomes no longer LG. Banshee [/QUOTE]

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