One of my principle peeves in D&D and then Pathfinder is that they make it seem like almost all werewolves are Chaotic Evil, which I can understand that many afflicted humanoids can be - having your mind shattered and rearranged with that of an animal's can be maddening, I would imagine, and would lead to many afflicted going insane and becoming killers.
As such, I was very happy to see werewolves in David Gross's 'Prince of Wolves' book to be portrayed as something other than CE, which is an alignment that is shared with goblins and demons. I was thinking about it, and I decided that they are overall Lawful Evil, with some NE thrown in, since they band together and follow a strict hierarchy and code. As with most pack animals, especially those with intelligence, a degree of lawfulness seems like it would be required to maintain order in the ranks.
Hopefully werewolves of Golarion will be portrayed this way in the future, because I thought that it was splendidly done by the author.
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One of my principle peeves in D&D and then Pathfinder is that they make it seem like almost all werewolves are Chaotic Evil, which I can understand that many afflicted humanoids can be - having your mind shattered and rearranged with that of an animal's can be maddening, I would imagine, and would lead to many afflicted going insane and becoming killers.
As such, I was very happy to see werewolves in David Gross's 'Prince of Wolves' book to be portrayed as something other than CE, which is an alignment that is shared with goblins and demons. I was thinking about it, and I decided that they are overall Lawful Evil, with some NE thrown in, since they band together and follow a strict hierarchy and code. As with most pack animals, especially those with intelligence, a degree of lawfulness seems like it would be required to maintain order in the ranks.
Hopefully werewolves of Golarion will be portrayed this way in the future, because I thought that it was splendidly done by the author.
I agree, I like this as well.. I would peg them more on the
I don't know how lawful you need to be to listen to the guy who will tear your throat out if you don't.
That said, yes, I like the werewolves from PoW too. Mind, I like evil werewolves too (Hello, Darkmoon Vale!) but I enjoy seeing some non-monstrously evil werewolves once in a while.