Is a Paladin immune to Lycantrophy?


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Is a Paladine immune ? he is immune to diseases.. so also to lycantrophy?


Divine Health (Ex): At 3rd level, a paladin is immune to all diseases, including supernatural and magical diseases, including mummy rot.

Mummy Rot

Type curse, disease, injury; Save Fortitude DC 16

Onset 1 minute; Frequency 1/day

Effect 1d6 Con damage and 1d6 Cha damage; Cure mummy rot can only be cured by successfully casting both remove curse and remove disease within 1 minute of each other.

Werewolf Lycanthropy

Type curse, injury; Save Fortitude DC 15 negates, Will DC 15 to avoid effects

Onset the next full moon; Frequency on the night of every full moon or whenever the target is injured

Effect target transforms into a wolf under the GM's control until the next morning

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So it seems that Lycanthropy is strictly a curse and as such the paladin's immunity does not apply


Good to Know!


So, this is one change from D&D 3.5


Belle Mythix wrote:
So, this is one change from D&D 3.5

More of a clarification, I'd say.

In 3.5, Lycanthropy was still a curse, but one of the ways to cure it was a remove disease or heal spell cast within three days of the lycanthrope's attack.

After that, you had to have remove curse or break enchantment cast on one of the three days of the full moon.

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And in 1st ed, there was the example of the paladin getting cursed with lycanthropy, getting cured of it, but still having to do an atonement quest to get his paladinhood restored due to the evil things he did against his will while he was a lycanthrope.


Too bad he didn't get bitten by a wearbear...

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