Lycanthropy - change forms on taking damage?


Rules Questions


I have a player who contracted lycanthropy a couple weeks of game time ago, failed a knowledge check to know about it, and who is pretty likely to take damage before the next full moon.

According the description of the Werewolf Lycanthropy curse in the Core Rule Book, p. 557, the curse kicks in "on the night of every full moon or whenever the target is injured."

But the description of lycanthropy in Bestiary 1 (p. 196) makes no mention of transforming when injured. It talks only about transforming at the time of the full moon.

Are these two different forms of lycanthropy? Was it an oversight in the Bestiary entry? Is the CRB text left over from the 3.5 SRD and they changed that when the Bestiary came out? Does my player need to make a Will save to avoid changing into a wolf every time they stub their toe?


Bestiary probably didn't repeat what was said in the CRB since it was already in there. So yes, if you take meaningful damage, you will have to make the save or transform. It's to prevent the template from being abused.

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