Alternitive Werewolf [Archive] - Wizards Community

Alternitive Werewolf [Archive] - Wizards Community

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BoDiddilly
11-25-06, 07:54 PM Im considering making an alternitive werewolf for a werewolf fanboy who will be in my low level rollplayers campain. The player will probably start as a resently inflicted werewolf who then goes though the intial process of transformation, the blackouts, and eventially the reallization that he is a werewolf.

Sense you are not able to take skill points in change shape untill you realize you are werewolf. The player wont be able to build his character optimally. He will have little control over his shape at first which seems to weaken the advantages of the werewolf therefor Im trying to build a low level Werewolf , maybe one with a more complicated series of staged hybid forms that mimics the Werewolf apocalypse's transformations.

Ideas, and suggestion appretiated, Im not done with my alteritive prototype yet but I will try to post one soon.
Seeker95
11-25-06, 10:36 PM If this is a brand new player, then I recommend steering way clear of this. Slapping an ECL-loaded template onto a new player is not a very easy way to learn the game.
No_Lynch
11-25-06, 10:50 PM Use the retraining rules in the PHB II. They're in the excerpt, so you can go check them there.
Korhal_IV
11-25-06, 11:13 PM Use the retraining rules in the PHB II. They're in the excerpt, so you can go check them there.

If he finds a werewolf pack to run with, a retraining ritual could be one of their treasured powers. If you're running good werewolves, it could be a "Bind the Beast" sort of pact that lets him put ranks in Control Shape; possibly something involving wolfsbane and starlight dances. If you're running evil werewolves, it's "Feeding the Beast", involving a ritualized hunt - with innocent victims! :eek:
BoDiddilly
11-28-06, 05:49 PM what is ment is ment by Excerpts?
Seeker95
11-28-06, 06:45 PM Excerpts are sections of new books that WotC posts on its website. This these (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/953747200).
Haida
11-28-06, 08:05 PM You could try to create a werewolf race based off the shifter race in the eberron campaign setting. You could make it a LA 1 character with less abilities, then allow more abilities to be added on as feats at levels 1, 3, 6, 9, etc. I believe unearthed arcana has variant rules on making level-adjustment races into 0LA races with abilities granted as feats.

sean reynolds has an inexpensive d20 sourcebook pdf on his site (http://www.seankreynolds.com/skrg/products/005COTM/) that is all about lycanthropes and how to make them more easily playable.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
BoDiddilly 11-25-06, 07:54 PM	Im considering making an alternitive werewolf for a werewolf fanboy who will be in my low level rollplayers campain. The player will probably start as a resently inflicted werewolf who then goes though the intial process of transformation, the blackouts, and eventially the reallization that he is a werewolf. Sense you are not able to take skill points in change shape untill you realize you are werewolf. The player wont be able to build his character optimally. He will have little control over his shape at first which seems to weaken the advantages of the werewolf therefor Im trying to build a low level Werewolf , maybe one with a more complicated series of staged hybid forms that mimics the Werewolf apocalypse's transformations. Ideas, and suggestion appretiated, Im not done with my alteritive prototype yet but I will try to post one soon.
Seeker95 11-25-06, 10:36 PM	If this is a brand new player, then I recommend steering way clear of this. Slapping an ECL-loaded template onto a new player is not a very easy way to learn the game.
No_Lynch 11-25-06, 10:50 PM	Use the retraining rules in the PHB II. They're in the excerpt, so you can go check them there.
Korhal_IV 11-25-06, 11:13 PM	Use the retraining rules in the PHB II. They're in the excerpt, so you can go check them there. If he finds a werewolf pack to run with, a retraining ritual could be one of their treasured powers. If you're running good werewolves, it could be a "Bind the Beast" sort of pact that lets him put ranks in Control Shape; possibly something involving wolfsbane and starlight dances. If you're running evil werewolves, it's "Feeding the Beast", involving a ritualized hunt - with innocent victims! :eek:
BoDiddilly 11-28-06, 05:49 PM	what is ment is ment by Excerpts?
Seeker95 11-28-06, 06:45 PM	Excerpts are sections of new books that WotC posts on its website. This these (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/953747200).
Haida 11-28-06, 08:05 PM	You could try to create a werewolf race based off the shifter race in the eberron campaign setting. You could make it a LA 1 character with less abilities, then allow more abilities to be added on as feats at levels 1, 3, 6, 9, etc. I believe unearthed arcana has variant rules on making level-adjustment races into 0LA races with abilities granted as feats. sean reynolds has an inexpensive d20 sourcebook pdf on his site (http://www.seankreynolds.com/skrg/products/005COTM/) that is all about lycanthropes and how to make them more easily playable.