We're starting up a Rise of the Runelords campaign, and one of the players has been wanting to play a werewolf for the last several game.
Looking at the Wolf Shifter base class from Wayfinder #5, it seems to just be an archetype/adaptation of Barbarian.
Has anyone used this class? How does it stack up? Is it workable in a RotR campaign?
How would other characters (PCs and NPCs) react to a Shoanti who shifted into a wolf-man hybrid???
Very interesting questions here!
I've built a Wolf Shifter it is a very well designed and balanced class. It plays much like a barbarian.
Depending on how you play it it could be either treated as a Druid changing forms or pitchforks and torches wielding angry mob time.
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We're starting up a Rise of the Runelords campaign, and one of the players has been wanting to play a werewolf for the last several game.
Looking at the Wolf Shifter base class from Wayfinder #5, it seems to just be an archetype/adaptation of Barbarian.
Has anyone used this class? How does it stack up? Is it workable in a RotR campaign?
How would other characters (PCs and NPCs) react to a Shoanti who shifted into a wolf-man hybrid???
I have a player that wanted to play a werewolf barbarian for the longest time, and my answer to him has always been...
"Not in my games!"
My biggest problem had always been both the risk of lycanthropic contamination to others and the CR increase that went with it.
He had gotten used to me saying no, but he would always try and catch me off-guard with each time he asked. It became a game that we played.
So imagine his surprise when he asked me one day and I said "Sure, you can play one."
He just sat there, eyes wide with shock. When he recovered, the player chuckled and said, "What, you're kidding. Right? You're not really gonna let me play a werewolf barbarian...right?"
I just smiled and said to him, "Yes, I am. In fact, you can do it for the next AP. It's a gothic horror one called Carrion Crown."
It was like I had taken the wind from his sails. Of course, he knew me well enough to ask a very important question: "What's the catch? There is a catch, right?"
I smiled and said, "Isn't there always..."
I let him read the Wolf Shifter class and he loved it. It solved my two main problems with his concept and enabled him play something he had always wanted to. We both were happy.
I have one question concerning the class though: Is it an alternate class for the barbarian or its own separate class? I told my player it was an alternate class, but an official answer would be good to have.
From what I've read it is a separate base class.
Its a very well balanced class, if anything it would be on the weak side when compared to a barbarian (due to all the barbarian feats available, and barbarian options). This is why it was a joy to do the Wolf-shifter feats I did in 101 Renegade Class feats.
But that's just my professional opinion, I have not played it.
Its a very well balanced class, if anything it would be on the weak side when compared to a barbarian (due to all the barbarian feats available, and barbarian options). This is why it was a joy to do the Wolf-shifter feats I did in 101 Renegade Class feats.
But that's just my professional opinion, I have not played it.
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We're starting up a Rise of the Runelords campaign, and one of the players has been wanting to play a werewolf for the last several game.
Looking at the Wolf Shifter base class from Wayfinder #5, it seems to just be an archetype/adaptation of Barbarian.
Has anyone used this class? How does it stack up? Is it workable in a RotR campaign?
How would other characters (PCs and NPCs) react to a Shoanti who shifted into a wolf-man hybrid???
what does the class look like. i am unfamilier with it.
...Looking at the Wolf Shifter base class from Wayfinder #5, it seems to just be an archetype/adaptation of Barbarian...what does the class look like. i am unfamilier with it.
Wayfinder #5 (free download)