Post/Author/DateTime	Post
SirDane 04-27-08, 08:54 PM	Personally, the way I went around it was to build a human that born with lycanthropy from the monster manual and another book that helps is Findley, Nigel. Van Richten's Guide to Werebeasts (TSR, 1993). Books like the Van Richten's Guides I use to gain ideas, not to use to make the character itself. Then I made my human a druid and I'm focusing him on seven levels of druid so he gets the 3 wildshapes per day and he also has trackless step which helps. After the levels of druid he's going into Master of many forms, found in the Complete Adventurer (p58.), at eight level, then after that i'm going into the Animal Lord/Cat Lord class to finish it out. That with many feats focused on speed and claw/bite focus will make your character a great druid. Hell, adding fighter or barbarian levels with druid levels would promote harmony to any fighter character. Werebeast characters are nice to play, exspecially if they are born into it and not inflected by it. Any suggests on how to make my druid better but stay as close to nature as possible would help me out alot. I didn't mention the DM let me get free +3 level adjustment and no race hit dice seeing that he LA would have been too high to play at that time. I basically took just the stat increases and natural ablities and lost the rest. Sincerely, SirDane.
ToastedAmphibian 04-28-08, 05:17 PM	Dear Mr. Dane I would truley like to help you. However, I find that I am currently unable to do so, largely on account of the fact that I cannot follow your post. Why would you want to be a shapechanging druid and a Lycanthrope? The druid levels add very little to a lycanthrope, and the animal HD and LA severly weaken a druid build. Either lycanthropy OR a druid may enter the Master of Many Forms prestige class. Yours truely, ToastedAmphibian
Sidhe_Blooded 04-29-08, 09:41 AM	actually lycans can't enter master of many forms since it specifically requires wild shape.
BugHunter 04-29-08, 08:10 PM	Toasted: You might be thinking of the Warshaper which druids and weres can both enter. For the OP: As Toasted mentioned using a were for a druid build is not a good thing since you would be losing at least four levels (+3 LA for natural and +1 RHD for a rat) of spell casting. I would be leery of using material dated from 1993 since that is pre-third edition it might have some good fluff check with DM.
SirDane 04-29-08, 09:39 PM	Nope, Actually according to the class all you have to have is requirements of Feats: Alertness and Endurance, and Special: Whild shape class feature. I'm not going into the class until I'm a seventh level druid with wild shape 3 times a day. My character isn't losing anything by being a human with born lycanthropy or by being a druid. I made my charcter a druid because as being part of nature from the druidic teachings helps him understand his lycanthropy even more so. By taking the Master of Many Forms prestige class my character can get in touch with the many forms of nature that are in the world around him. That and being able to turn into different forms not only helps the party in different situations but helps my character when he's in serious trouble without the help of the party.
SirDane 04-29-08, 09:45 PM	AS for the materials from 1993, I just use the info to gain ideas, not to use it to make my actual character with. I use only 3.5 version materials for that. Well, that and some 3rd party books.