Lycanthrope (5e Race) From D&D Wiki. This page is incomplete and/or lacking flavor. For example, if a good character locks himself in a cage every full moon to protect the people around him, then he can remain good. If a healer administers the herb, use the character’s save bonus or the healer’s Heal modifier, whichever is higher. Evil lycanthropes hide among normal folk, emerging in animal form at night to spread terror and bloodshed, especially under a full moon. Your Ability Scores are modified to the following: Your Strength Score is increased by 1, your Charisma is increased by 1. Only afflicted lycanthropes can be cured of lycanthropy. After a success on this single monthly roll, the player can begin to control the effects:Once per long-rest as a ritual (10-minutes), the player can attempt to transform into hybrid or animal form by rolling a DC15 CON save.If the player fails, he or she wails in agony and suffers one level of exhaustion.If the player succeeds, he or she still wails in agony and transforms into hybrid or animal and gains the attacks, ability scores, damage resistances, abilities, etc of the lycanthrope type (as described in the Monster Manual). This will work with all Standard Races from official Wizards content. Good lycanthropes are reclusive and uncomfortable around other civilized creatures, often living alone in wilderness areas far from villages and towns. I'm lost and totally staring at the wall. Reason: Needs to be moved to templates. In its humanoid form, a werewolf has heightened sens... Shapechanger. paralyzed I watched the still woman take her first few steps. Upon success, the player suffers one level of exhaustion. If the player chooses to embrace lycanthropy, how does the rest of the party react? One minute later, the character must succeed on a second DC 13 save or take an additional 2d6 points of Strength damage.A remove disease or heal spell cast by a cleric of 12th level or higher also cures the affliction, provided the character receives the spell within three days of the lycanthrope’s attack.Interesting! You can help D&D Wiki by finishing and/or adding flavor to this page. Were you born with it, transferred from the blood of your parents? So I'd say I let them have that knowledge before rather than after the fact.But I like the idea that you mentioned about the rather high DC and possibly administering Wolfsbane to potentially lower the DC.3e rules for reference if you want to base your cure off thatAn afflicted character who eats a sprig of belladonna (also called wolfsbane) within 1 hour of a lycanthrope’s attack can attempt a DC 20 Fortitude save to shake off the affliction. By making sure the transformation is rife with complication and turmoil, the ultimate benefits will be sweeter and feel more hard-fought. If the player fails twice or more in the same 24 hour period, he or she suffers exhaustion and short term madness when he or she finally awakens.The player has little control over the disease, and begins to exhibit physical characteristics of the creature, such as extra hair, longer teeth, eye color, and animalistic mannerisms. If they knew it was a werewolf, and attempted treatment right away, I wouldn't require anything special (it also could help since you are introducing a house rule midgame - maybe someone says "it's a good thing you treated it as quickly as you did, or else it may have been harder to treat" and then you can warn them for future cases).Simple method - when attempting to defeat a disease/curse - make a Spell check vs. the DC of the curse. I like to make it feel like a double edged sword. I am more interested in lore than balance, but I feel that, at current, a min-maxer would have no reason to choose anything but a Werebear. Natural-born werebeasts, who inherit their curse from an infected parent, can only have their curse removed with a Wish. You could roll any die in this case, but I like to cut to the chase and make it relatively soon.Going back to earlier editions, I like the mechanic of having an easier way to cure the disease before it really spreads.A player can ingest 25gp worth of belladonna herbs to try to cure him- or herself, but this only works if the player ingests the herbs before the first full moon and succeeds on a DC15 medicine check. As a Half-Orc, your ability Score Increases are as follows: Your Strength Score increases by 1, your Constitution score increases by 1. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts A character who becomes a lycanthrope retains his or her statistics except as specified by lycanthrope type. How can I design something that is kind of fair for the players and also pretty difficult? They were smiling and embraced me in spite of the mess.