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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RolandOfGilead" data-source="post: 340431" data-attributes="member: 7140">Does anyone else feel the slightest bit of pity on the lowly werewolf, creature of terrible power in our dreams, but felled by a lowly +1 sword in D&D? I like lycanthropes.  I just think with the proliferation of magic in 3E in general, and in FR in specific, they lose a little something inthe translation.  Maybe what they lose is the ability to inspire terror! In my campaign, I decided that lycanthropy was a powerful and terrible curse, one that kept its victim's soul from seeking rest unless it is purified with silver.. thus, while a werewolf might be slain by a magic weapon, this doesnt end the nightmare...   Upon death by means magical, a lycanthropes soul enters the outer planes in a vain attempt to find release.  Some find their way to the plane of shadow, others to hades or the abyss, and spend 1d3 days there wandering. At the end of this time, their spirit returns to the prime material plane ... changed.  The mortal body at this stage begins to regenerate rapidly, and the spirit enters the flesh and becomes an Undead Lycanthrope. Grave Wolf (bear, rat, tiger, etc.)Creature type changes to undead.Hit Dice becomes 1d12. +2 HD, +2 str, -2 int, -2 cha, +2 natural armor, Natural attacks do1 extra cold damage, Regeneration (Silver), Frost breath as a winter wolf.  Night wolf (bear, rat, tiger, etc.)Creature type changes to undeadHit dice becomes 1d12+2 HD, incorporeal, natural attacks now do 1d6 strength drain much like a shadow, can materialize. Those slain by strength drain become shadows.I havent got my more detailed notes here, but anyone like these and care to hear more?</blockquote>

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