
MrSin |
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The weretiger on the SRD has the armor keep with the forms. If you want it to change or whatever I guess you can.
If your form stays medium you don't have to make any thought of it. It just fits. Your still a humanoid. Everything is secretly made of amazing "onesizefitsallium" as far as that's concerned.

Zhayne |

This is one of those niggling details I typically gloss over. I don't make PCs buy new clothes when they get mauled by an animal or a dragon breathes on them, so I wouldn't fuss over it as a DM.
If you really want to account for it, get an item that can cast Mending, or ask one of your party spellcasters to keep it ready.

phantom1592 |

I recommend either stripping down, which would be my choice. If you KNOW the change is coming, get ready for it.
Magical armor seems to change size with the wearer, so you'd be fine with that too...
But honestly the werebeast waking up with shredded clothes is such an awesome visual I wouldn't (won't ^_^ ) be trying too hard to get around it.

phantom1592 |

As far as the baggy clothes, Nikolai, the werewolf, is actually rather cocky. He prefers tight fighting apparel.
To the undressing, the more likely, how long would that take in combat?
DM perogative.
Unless it's actual ARMOR... Medium and heavy armor have specific time limits for how long to don. normal clothes don't.
If I were the DM, I'd say one full round action should do it. In RL I can strip down in under six seconds... but most of it would be fluff as to how many laces and buckles and exactly how 'tight' he likes his clothes to justify longer.
As it's a 'fluff' concept I wouldn't penalize a player any more than that.

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I'm going to play a werewolf in an upcoming AP and am in need of some advise. In the hybrid form he will still be in his gear and as we all know clothes get torn to shreds during the transformation.
I guess what I'm asking is, how do I avoid having to constantly buy new clothes?
Cure your lycanthropy. Get the Wild enchantment on your armor. Those are your options. Learn to control your shapeshifting and undress before you change.

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If were(large) creatures have their armor and weapons resize with them, which the werebear on the PRD does (and that's a nonmagical masterwork battleaxe), I imagine the clothes are assumed to as well.
The werebear (and it's equipment) on the PAIZO PRD remains Medium in all it's forms, so I don't know where you're getting that from.
If you're talking about the OTHER PRD, I don't consider it canon. It's useful and a well done site but it does not trump Paizo's official PRD.
Given that from humanoid to hybrid isn't a size change, you should be able to keep your gear as long as it's not sized to tightly.

Icyshadow |

This is one of those niggling details I typically gloss over. I don't make PCs buy new clothes when they get mauled by an animal or a dragon breathes on them, so I wouldn't fuss over it as a DM.
If you really want to account for it, get an item that can cast Mending, or ask one of your party spellcasters to keep it ready.
This is what I'd go with, if Living Garments are not available.

Wolf Munroe |

I don't think lycanthropy ruins clothes in Pathfinder or D&D 3.5e before it. In 3.0 it ruined clothes, but in 3.5e the way the "change" worked with equipment got changed. In Pathfinder, as long as the humanoid and hybrid form are the same size, the clothing is unaffected. Equipment merges into the lycanthrope when it takes animal form.
Of course different DMs may run it as the clothing gets destroyed, but generally Pathfinder lycanthropes in hybrid form are still generally anthropomorphic humanoids and can use gear.