bat, rat, wolf, boar, and bear lycanthropes

[Fifo]

If my players met one of these and as far as they know they could all have the curse of lycanthropy, and send them to the local cleric for a cure?

and if they met a cleric of less than sterling alignment, he's sell them a 'cure' for 800 gp that they didn't need?

and could a player tell if ones of these animals was indeed a lycanthrope without running a lab test on it? lol. Or would they get a knowledge nature to tell it was a lycanthrope?

as in, how could a player know if a regular animal was cursed or not.

[Avoron]

Have your wizard stab it with a dagger and see if it bleeds?

[Dafydd]

A KN Nature would tell your character if it was a were. Additionally, don't weres revert to their humanoid form if killed? (Dead give away there)

[VRMH]

Dafydd wrote:

A KN Nature would tell your character if it was a were.

Why Knowledge? Wouldn't Perception make more sense, the animal shape being essentially a disguise?

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Additionally, don't weres revert to their humanoid form if killed? (Dead give away there)

They do, but to know that should require Knowledge (Nature).

[Master of the Dark Triad]

Dafydd wrote:

A KN Nature would tell your character if it was a were. Additionally, don't weres revert to their humanoid form if killed? (Dead give away there)

HA! Dead give away? Killed? I noticed your pun.

I think it could be a knowledge nature if the animal is alive to notice any strange behaviors, but perception could work if it was dead or alive.

[Dafydd]

KN nature ID's animals, that is what KN is for after all. Besides, KN nature is just going to tell you that that is not a genuine animal (I let my players ID that with a CR-5 as they get no bonus other then eliminate 1 option of what it might be)

Technically, a KN local is supposed to be used to ID that it A) is a were creature, B) it is weakened by silver, C) it reverts to humanoid form when slain.

[Rogar Stonebow]

Actually lycanthropes are humanoids. So you can use knowledge local as well.

Ninja'd cause I fell asleep in posting