Lycanthrope / Werewolf question.

[RelicBlackOUT]

I am looking over the werewolf for an upcoming session I am running and had a question.

If one of the PCs become afflicted and turn into a werewolf at the next full moon, do they control all of the class abilities when they are in hybrid form, or only in regular form?

I would be thinking of class abilities from Slayer, Ranger, or Magus.

[Murdock Mudeater]

RelicBlackOUT wrote:

I am looking over the werewolf for an upcoming session I am running and had a question.

If one of the PCs become afflicted and turn into a werewolf at the next full moon, do they control all of the class abilities when they are in hybrid form, or only in regular form?

I would be thinking of class abilities from Slayer, Ranger, or Magus.

Up to the GM. As written, the player is an NPC while afflicted. Then they wake up with no memory.

[RelicBlackOUT]

I could have read it wrong, but didn't that only count if they were in full animal form?

[skizzerz]

Up to you as the GM, but the PRD offers the following advice: "When a PC becomes a lycanthrope, you as the GM have a choice to make. In most cases, you should take control of the PC's actions whenever he is in hybrid or animal form—lycanthropy shouldn't be a method to increase a PC's power, after all, and what an afflicted lycanthrope does while in animal or hybrid form is often at odds with what the character would actually want."

If you choose to not take control, then I'd let them have full agency over all of their abilities. Going in halfsies just seems like a recipe for a bad time all around.

[RelicBlackOUT]

Thank you both for the advice. Note to PCs, make that DC15 fort save.

[nosig]

I had a group of PCs tangle with Werewolves and we did the "extreme worry" bit while the PCs burned a bunch of resources and jumped thru hoops to be sure not to contract Lycanthropy ... then in the next meeting they encountered someone who said "Well, I don't need to worry about you lot being Werewolves" (they were in an area known to be infested). They responded puzzled. "Well - only humanoids can catch it, and you lot are 2 Aasimar, 2 Tieflings and a Sylph. Yep, nice to see an entire group who are immune to this scourge." Yeah, later that NPC led them into a trap - the NPC was human, and infected. ;-)

[Bandw2]

nosig wrote:

I had a group of PCs tangle with Werewolves and we did the "extreme worry" bit while the PCs burned a bunch of resources and jumped thru hoops to be sure not to contract Lycanthropy ... then in the next meeting they encountered someone who said "Well, I don't need to worry about you lot being Werewolves" (they were in an area known to be infested). They responded puzzled. "Well - only humanoids can catch it, and you lot are 2 Aasimar, 2 Tieflings and a Sylph. Yep, nice to see an entire group who are immune to this scourge." Yeah, later that NPC led them into a trap - the NPC was human, and infected. ;-)

bahahaha, he should have kept quiet and kept selling them "wolf'sbane" and "silver laced" "medicinals".

[nosig]

Bandw2 wrote:

nosig wrote:

I had a group of PCs tangle with Werewolves and we did the "extreme worry" bit while the PCs burned a bunch of resources and jumped thru hoops to be sure not to contract Lycanthropy ... then in the next meeting they encountered someone who said "Well, I don't need to worry about you lot being Werewolves" (they were in an area known to be infested). They responded puzzled. "Well - only humanoids can catch it, and you lot are 2 Aasimar, 2 Tieflings and a Sylph. Yep, nice to see an entire group who are immune to this scourge." Yeah, later that NPC led them into a trap - the NPC was human, and infected. ;-)

bahahaha, he should have kept quiet and kept selling them "wolf'sbane" and "silver laced" "medicinals".

The funniest part was that I hadn't picked up on the fact that they were all immune until after we had played several games where some of them were bitten. And we were tracking who had been bitten, and when. Then we resolved all the "possible infections" - rushing to get everyone "cured" before the next full moon... and the day after that I remembered everyones race. So next game I had the "wolf hunter" encounter, and dropped the "you lot are immune" note - whereupon several of the players realized it to. I could see that "light bulb of realization" flash above each of their heads. It was glorious!