Werebeasts

[Kodyboy]

It states vulnerability 10 to silver for a wherewolf, but not a DR/silver? Is the a mistake?

[Alyran]

Instead of being resistant to every type of physical damage except silver, they now have bulked up HP and take extra damage from silver. It makes fighting them feel less bad while still making silver really useful.

[Gorbacz]

Well, real life werewolves are vulnerable to silver but not impervious to other forms of violence, so that makes totes sense.

[Kodyboy]

Gorbacz wrote:

Well, real life werewolves are vulnerable to silver but not impervious to other forms of violence, so that makes totes sense.

I will have to try it but I don't know if I like the idea. Werewolves should be impervious or at least ignore 10 or less damage from non silver, or magic weapons.

[Rysky]

Kodyboy wrote:

Gorbacz wrote:

Well, real life werewolves are vulnerable to silver but not impervious to other forms of violence, so that makes totes sense.

I will have to try it but I don't know if I like the idea. Werewolves should be impervious or at least ignore 10 or less damage from non silver, or magic weapons.

Why?

[Kodyboy]

Because in all the fantasy books/movies etc. That I have read or seen that is how werebeasts worked. You could shoot them full of arrows and they ignored them, but hit them with silver arrows and they died.

[Gorbacz]

Kodyboy wrote:

Because in all the fantasy books/movies etc. That I have read or seen that is how werebeasts worked. You could shoot them full of arrows and they ignored them, but hit them with silver arrows and they died.

You and I read and watched different movies and books then. In Werewolf: the Apocalypse, the definitive nerdy pop-culture mashup take on Werewolves, you could hurt them using arrows just fine, sliver simply did greater wounds.

[Rysky]

I’ve seen both “invulnerable to everything but silver” and “silver just hurts more” a lot of times. I really like the Weakness route here since that means they can be more readily used against low level PCs and not completely screw them over.

[Alyran]

Rysky wrote:

I’ve seen both “invulnerable to everything but silver” and “silver just hurts more” a lot of times. I really like the Weakness route here since that means they can be more readily used against low level PCs and not completely screw them over.

This is why I'm happy about the change. It just makes werewolves more fun to fight for the players.