You don't need silver to kill a werewolf??

[Irda Ranger]

I just noticed this as I hadn't used werewolf's yet. I don't think there's any question of my reading of the rules (werewolves lack the equivalent of troll healing), so you can kill them without silver weapons?

This is bull.

 

[Mort_Q]

Regeneration 5 (if the werewolf takes damage from a silver weapon, its regeneration doesn’t function on its next turn)

Silver certainly helps.

 

[keterys]

Have you needed silver in any edition of D&D? I remember generic magic weapons working in older editions before 3.5 (OD&D on up), silver only _helping_ but not making a big difference in 3.5, any types of spells always being good, etc.

I might not be remembering OD&D right, though. It's been... a bunch of years

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Lycanthropes in 4th ed, regenerate unless they are hit with silver
this makes them hard to kill without it

Been a trope of fiction/media for ages that BIG damage can kill lycanthropes, not just silver : dynamite, fire etc. So it's ok by me.

I'll take 4th ed's way of not forcing players ot carry a golf bag of weapons, of specific materials, any day!

I'm the DM, if I want, I can say they won't die without a silver weapon, if I chose.
Not hard to do, ya know


Nastiest damn werewolf I've ever seen is in the "Vampire the Masquerade; BLoodlines" game DAMN that is one tough SOB to fight!! Eeeek!
(Best RPG/1st person PC game there is, apart from maybe Fallout3)

 

[OchreJelly]

If you would prefer to make them more unkillable, take the troll healing power from the troll entry and apply it to the werewolf stats. Presto! A werewolf that gets up after it's been knocked down. It's probably a pretty easy patch. Write it as follows:

If the werewolf is reduced to 0 hit points or fewer by an attack from a non-silver weapon, it rises on its next turn (as a move action) with 10 hit points.

 

[ki11erDM]

The 4e WW is just not well implemented as far as I am concerned. One of the few things that really bugs me in the MM.

I lament the loss of the big bad wolf.

 

[Mirtek]

This is bull.

Actually you didn't need silver to kill them in 3.0 and 3.5 either

 

[keterys]

Did you in 2e, 1e, or Basic? What edition of dnd did you? What the heck are people talking about that werewolves are somehow less silver-affected than previous?

 

[lukelightning]

Back in first edition you needed silver or better weapons to damage them. No amount of hitting with a mundane weapon would work. But since everyone past level 3 or so had a +1 weapon, the werewolf's immunity was trivial.

I do think that making it impossible to kill werewolves without silver is a bad idea (similarly, I think it should be ok to kill trolls without fire or acid...just difficult). Remember that in folklore sometimes all it took was a small amount of silver and *thud*, dead werewolf, like it was super-poison-kryptonite to them. This would be a situation in which it is impossible to kill them unless you had some silver in which case they would be a trivial threat.

 

[cmbarona]

Would throwing some sp count as an improvised weapon?