Loup Garou Gives Lycanthropy Teeth | Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft

Loup Garou Gives Lycanthropy Teeth | Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft | D&D

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@SirEnderGaming 3 жыл бұрын

"it is up to the DM to take your character away from you if he turns into a vampire" Well, my first character in Curse of Strahd returned as a vampire spawn and killed my second character. So that was an experience xD

@peterterry7918 3 жыл бұрын

I like how The Dresden Files handles there being more than one type of werewolf and think it is the model I would incorporate

@brucemaximus3797 3 жыл бұрын

"What do you know about werewolves? "What kind?" "What do you mean?" "I mean: what kind of theriomorph are you asking about, boss?" "There's- wait, what'd you call them?" "Theriomorphs. Things that have animal form." "Right, how many wolf kinds are there?" "Loads. Werewolves, lycanthropes, hexenwolves, Loup Garou..."

@goudawgs 3 жыл бұрын

@@brucemaximus3797 don't forget the Weregoats

@justanotherdayinthelife9841 3 жыл бұрын

@@brucemaximus3797 i had no idea! Ok, so Ill go grab this book. Which one should I get? Which ones have all of this awesomness in it?

@kylepearce-obrien1021 3 жыл бұрын

@@goudawgs Weregoats. Jesus.

@brucemaximus3797 3 жыл бұрын

@@justanotherdayinthelife9841 That particular one is Fool Moon, but the entire series is amazing. Fool Moon is number 2, so I'd go ahead and get the first one, Storm Front, and have yourself a good weekend. The entire series is on both Kindle and Audible. Many people say book three, Grave Peril, is where the series really hits its stride. I happen to agree. Series sum-up in D&D terms: Nerdy Sorcerer sticks his nose into progressively larger beehives while inexplicably getting various other PCs to team up with him along the way.

@Gangrel442003 3 жыл бұрын

In the previous editions, it took a combination of three spells to remove lycanthropy: Atonement, Remove Curse, Remove Disease. And these must be administered on the night of a full moon....

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

I would also throw in a Banishment spell in to remove the savage wolf spirit that bonded to the PC soul. Besides my past two game shop over the last 20 years were into WW/WoD:VtM &WtA, so our DMs/ story tellers allow us to play .. monsters.

@toshomni9478 3 жыл бұрын

In the case of lycanthropy I'd rule that the remove curse spell only tells you how the curse might be removed but it always requires a unique quest of some kind each time you do it.

@justanotherdayinthelife9841 3 жыл бұрын

Ooooh i really like this. Fantastic idea, which seems it can be leaned upon by every class as possible heavy weight players for particular tasks. Really allow the players to showcase their characters to the group and themselves in their prime environments and present an infinitely adventurous set of circumstances for the remove curse. Great idea duder.

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

@@justanotherdayinthelife9841 I treated it less of a remove curse and more of a banishment spell to remove the savage wolf spirit that bonded to the PC soul. PCs have to make Wisdom checks to prevent themselves from showing wolfish behavior such as timidness around large groups of humans, turning in circles before they sit or lay down. Or sleeping like a dog snuggle up to someone else in the party group at night. In all, the infected PC starts to act like an over protective guard dog to his adventuring party.

@piketheknight2581 Жыл бұрын

What about if the quest to get rid of this inner beast is something more monstrous than the curse itself. Like you have to sacrifice an innocent person to get rid of the curse

@JuddKarlman 3 жыл бұрын

Possible Houserule: Remove Curse either removes the curse or, if the curse is just too strong, the player knows how to cure it.

@cyborgcatrj6794 3 жыл бұрын

That’s a fun way to fix it, personally I made it a house rule that you can give someone lycanthropy with Bestow Curse if you use a 9th level spell slot.

@JuddKarlman 3 жыл бұрын

@@cyborgcatrj6794 Love the idea of being able to bestow fell curses with higher spell slots. Very elegant ruling there.

@Nerdhistory_TheLibrarian 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you can houserule that Remove curse could remove the beastly madness or allow you to better focus your inner beast so your not attacking your party. Like you still lose control on a full moon, but (if your good aligned) instead you hunt down evil people, and slaughter/feast on them.

@32Loveless50 2 жыл бұрын

the Grim Hollow books got some nice rules for Curses and how to cure them :) basically collecting ingredients that have to be used with the remove curse spell to cure curses.

@ArdynSol 3 жыл бұрын

Such a good point. It's awesome that they're bringing the bite back to werewolves.

@lexzetusko 3 жыл бұрын

One of my players wanted to come into the game with lycanthropy and we had a fun time with his inner wolf, we even shifted his fighter levels into a werewolf class and it's made perfect sense in the context of his story and it's still evolving within the story

@alanschaub147 3 жыл бұрын

Todd: “The werebat is no good in bright light.” Megan: “Just like you!” I can relate! 🦇

@kmoustakas 3 жыл бұрын

So, what you gotta do is run the regular werewolves similar to 'vampire spawn' and the loup garou is the actual werewolf.

@TheBottegaChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Now imagine that all of the infected are actually a company of ex gloomstalker rangers and the Loup Garou is the commanding officer, but when they are not shifted they hunt bandits, poachers and corrupt lawmen ( like Robin Hood, only more militant). When shifted they could use military style tactics as well as pack hunting tactics ( as by then, all forms of team combat would be instinctual for them to use, thus negating any issues they would have with performing complex humanesque creature actions) to spice up combat. Imagine this coming from the GM's mouth: " The spike you remove from your calf when you yank your leg from the Apache style foot trap, reveals itself to be a carved 4 inch long wolf tooth coated in rotten meat scented saliva. You remember seeing one of the werewolves without one of it's canine teeth as it snarled at you last night." That would make ANY player get a cold chill of realization that those creatures fight on a whole different level ( and would also provide an attack of opportunity for the loup garou or other werewolves and a flanking point in game).

@godofzombi 3 жыл бұрын

Chill touch. That should take care of the regeneration.

@Lumpyrox1412 3 жыл бұрын

This is a juicy sleeper part of the book! It gives DMs a way to mechanically model a more potent form of curse if they choose. I love how it’s handled and really gives were creatures the needed spook factor! Definitely adapting this for all my major curses moving forward!

@aarndal90 3 жыл бұрын

I like the new take on lycanthropes like we've seen it already with the Wereravens in Candlekeep. Giving them Regeneration instead of Immunity to "Standard" Damage feels... right. I also give my lycanthropes a Resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered. And I use a slightly variation of the rules from 3.5e to cure lycanthropy in my running Curse of Strahd campaign. The new rules for the Loup Garou sound very promising.

@JuniperHedge 3 жыл бұрын

A little film making critique: if you two are in the same room, and speaking to each other, please put in an Establing Shot showing both of you in the same frame. The cutting back and forth between two people looking into each other's eyes is very jarring. Think of how in interviews, they will occasionally cut to a shot of both people together. The Establing Shot makes the human brain happy.

@Tristan_Shuler 3 жыл бұрын

I will be inserting a Loup Garou into my Curse of Strahd game. It’ll be the head werewolf guy!

@theeye8276 3 жыл бұрын

Same I'm removing the 7 werewolves that's are in his hunting pack to have the fight be around the same CR. What about you?

@Tristan_Shuler 3 жыл бұрын

@@theeye8276 it depends on what level they’ll be when they get there. I have a larger group, around 6 players. If they’re level 7-8 as recommended, they’d wipe the floor with him if he’s by himself. So I may keep a few lesser werewolves. Or to spice things up, throw in different types of lycanthropes.

@oniminikui 3 жыл бұрын

I've made homebrew rule that lycanthropy can only be removed by Remove Curse by cast with a 9th level slot.

@beastmasterbrax4747 3 жыл бұрын

Therianthropes are my favorite creatures so this is awesome! So excited for this book and I know y'all are too! Keep up with the vids, love them!

@The-Frog-King 3 жыл бұрын

More Megan & Todd talks please!

@ProgramKiraTV 3 жыл бұрын

This is great to know. I was just planning a one shot involving a tabaxi lycan barbarian and this is a great adventure hook

@basementmadetapes 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely apex preds. These beasts ought to command the same sort of respect that Vamps etc do even if for different reasons

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

In a few of the later trans phase of AD&D2e moving into 3.5e Ravenloft novels, Strahd had to deal with multiple werewolf family packs trying to take control of his Domain and fight each other over hunting and herd grazing rights. A pack of werewolves only infected a non family member if they lost one too many from their base pack or need some cannon folder for a very dangerous up coming battle. Cause the Land can only support so many Packs of Wolves. My old gaming shop groups also use to run White Wolf/ World of Darkness: Vampire & Werewolf, so we always gave werebeasts a few low levels of spellcaster classes for role playing reasons. So when we ran werewolves, there is no such thing as a .. lone wolf, and any experience adventure or local in werewolf area just .. knows .. that werewolves watch over .. their .. flock & herds, and the wolves eat first. Hope you have a good weekend, and the wolves stay at bay.

@basementmadetapes 3 жыл бұрын

@@krispalermo8133 that's dope af. That's what I'm talking about. Like some gang mentality. Mess w any of us, you'll see plenty of us

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

@@basementmadetapes Over the pass thirty years I seen D&D played, most people just treat monsters as video game XP. Before D&D switch from AD&D2e to D&D3e, we had the Complete Humanoid hand book, so the shop allow players to R.P. monsters. We had an Open Campaign where if someone used your PC as a npc they have to give the PC 1/4th XP from that adventure & that PC is not allowed to be killed off. We had one murder hobo play a red dragon for a few games and after wards started to treat npcs in a better light, and had a fit that one group ..punk.. killed of HIS dragon as a chump with no tactics involved. Due to PC creating a magic item or some form of craft which require down time, had players run multiple characters from different parts of the setting. Over the years the shop's campaign setting felt " natural " grown with history and value in meaning. New players to the shop setting were told, .. everyone .. is Political aligned. a.) The bandits you killed off lived in the neighboring barony and their relatives were living of the spoils with their local lord getting kickbacks. Now you just started a blood feud and the baron is not happy about the lost of the kickbacks and was trying to undermine his neighboring rival control over his domain. b.) Werewolves control wild wolves from killing off wide swaths of herds and keep the goblin numbers down in the local forest. Wolves only hunt the weakest members of the herds, nobles want to hunt the trophy bucks. No werewolves, goblin worgs push the local wolves out into the farm land killing off the peasants' herds, no trophy deer game hunting, and now the area has a goblin threat. Cause .. there .. ARE .. monsters in the forest, people NEED their Lord's protection ! c.) If you kill one dragon, hope one of it's family members do not find you parents' house, your favorite inn, or already scared a village you are traveling to, and the villagers Will greet the adventures in a .. very .. welcoming manner. i.) You are under arrest in the name of the crown. ii.) Uhmm, is the inn keeper trying to get me as drunk as he can ? iii.) How do you disarm & armor a man ? Send three pretty young women into the same room with him when he is drunk. Cause the dragon is waiting.

@basementmadetapes 3 жыл бұрын

@@krispalermo8133 well I wish I'd played this game since I was a kid. But I'm just a writer, and I approach the game thru that lense. Every character matters to someone. There are no bags of hit points in my writing. There's only layers of motivations, circumstance. Even for a monster. I ain't hating on hp tho. Obviously a game needs some measure. I just don't like how reductive it can become.

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

@@basementmadetapes On the writer side, .. 1.) Campaign setting & novel series : Dragonlance The novels use to get the setting going were the " campaign daily notes " on how the play testers were playing the game. The reason why Strum was killed by the blue dragon general in the novel was cause he was killed in game play. The novelist was not making up the way each character behaved, he was going off the records and from watching the player act out the PC in dialog. Hp, .. from a story point of view, " Superman is as strong as needed for the plot to move forward." 2.) Years ago I wrote a gothic horror Call of Cthulhu ist like story involving a dock crane unloading house. Basic a short quick mini D&D game dealing with .. night terrors, with PC between 1st to 5th level of young adults. Just normal people who had to run for their lives one night. Ability score stats such as " Wisdom " to track how long it takes till the PC goes into .. panic .. mode. What I like about dice is, that it allows the story's actions to take on a life of it's own. 3.) Classic campaign building and other artistic inspiration, i.) AD&D2e Complete Book of Villains, " how to write villains and story hooks for and adventure & campaign setting, along with charts for random dice rolls to get personality motivations for NPC." Back in the 1990's I have heard a few college students wish they had a book cliff noted in regarding writing antagonists. Over all the bpook is just a fun quick read. ii.) AD&D2e Ravenloft three volume set of Van Richten monstrous compendium. They just cover everything in AD&D2e game system play regarding classic monsters in NPC behavior, dice modifier adjustments, character class levels, and pages on how to write a gothic story and how to put one together step by step. Even if you don't play RPGs, it is just a fun read. The way it is write, it is like the author is .. talking .. directly to you. Since each volume holds three to four different monster books, it can take all night to read one volume. Just something to look around on, they are more than a little costly for more recent prints.

@godofzombi 3 жыл бұрын

It would be fun if a druid with lycantropy could only wild shape into a wolf/ dire wolf.

@Danny191 3 жыл бұрын

Oooooh that’s an interesting twist to the curse

@ryanb3254 3 жыл бұрын

That is great......and 100% a thing im going to steal.

@christophercrafte Жыл бұрын

a really fun idea BUT a person with lycanthrope can shapechange at will into a wolf form without the need of wildshape.

@pb-bx1ll 3 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed the video. Thank you

@amberblackwell5614 3 жыл бұрын

In my home game lycanthropy can ONLY be removed by a special antidote potion because I agree with this.

@DavidFoxfire 3 жыл бұрын

This is why I had to modify Remove Curse to have it require more than a 3rd Level spell slot. It must require a component based on the curse, such as, for Lycanthropy, the literal 'hair of the dog' that bit you. Either that or a full day for the actual ritual to be cast.

@alanschaub147 3 жыл бұрын

I think it would be fun to run Remove Curse as a skill contest, like Matt Mercer runs Resurrection. It reminds me of the Harry Potter movies when Sirius Black is trying to prevent Professor Lupin’s transformation: “You know the man you truly are, Remus! This heart is where you truly live! This heart!” ❤️

@orionar2461 3 жыл бұрын

In my setting if you are cursed it can be removed but not if you are born with it. Also in my setting most therianthrope forms (excluding were rats) were gifts by selune to druids, and some hags decided "but what if we made evil versions" creating the cursed version. Also you could easily change remove so that curses not set specifically by the bestow curse spell requires a spell check vs a dc of like 10+creature CR to remove. This means you'll for sure remove it soon, but now theres a chance of failure immediately, so you may have to burn more spell slots

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

D&D3.5e Lesser Planar Ally/Binding calls an 8hd outsider to dur your biding, 4th-level spell, 8th-level caster. a.) Summon the demon spirit of an Abyss wolf to bind with your soul to spread the curse of werewolves unto other people. b.) Summon a vampire spirit. So a Banishment spell will be needed along with remove curse.

@justanotherdayinthelife9841 3 жыл бұрын

This sounds exactly like the Werewolves in my last campaign. Thats awesome that others were stoked enough about this that it made its way through Ravenloft. Because I am unable to resist, it was in a murder mystery where the local constable (a gnome wizard) welcomes the players coming as fellow dispatched constables to a dinner in which he secretly slips the magic word to enter his workshop to speak after the dinner of a "foulness" growing (as the reason the players were dispatched was because every full moon theres more and more slain villagers and yet no communication from their constable). This is where he gets poisoned to death. Now its a murder mystery fo real. The gnome had an automagical force quarantine bubble encircle the village at his triggering death which stopped the killer from escaping but locked everyone in there with the killer(s). Turned out it was a werewolf cult with a vast network of tunnels running to the underdark where the plot was launched as an attack from a rival nation to use biological warfare. The players total failure to stop the real alpha lead to the escape of the cult into the countryside when the bubble ran out of juice was hilarious in the making. I applaud my players because it was so much fun failing together lololol think Clue and the Thing in a tiny medieval village lol.

@ParanormalEncyclopedia 3 жыл бұрын

I'd go 2e ravenloft rules. Back then you had to kill the first werewolf in your bloodline, atone for what you've done as a lycanthrope (not like cast the spell but as rp and game sessions you have to make it right) and then three spells on the night of the full moon while in the transformation.

@JAG19d 3 жыл бұрын

Ive considered using a spellcasting check to Remove Curse and giving curses a DC that needs to be beat to actually remove curses

@StormSage13 3 жыл бұрын

As a fan of werewolves, I am super excited for this. My first class in 5e was the Blood Hunter only because I wanted to play a werewolf (this was before the Shifter & Beast Barbarian were out) and as a DM who's werewolf boss fight was ended by the cleric risking life & limb to get in close to cast Remove Curse, it can be a bit underwhelming for it to be removed so easily.

@agnostican 3 жыл бұрын

In a campaign I ran a few years ago, I houseruled Lycanthropes so that their curse is an ancient one and because of that pretty much unbreakable (similarly how resurrecting a 10.000 year old mummy to life is not really viable). I made werewolves tougher and at the same time made their weaknesses more pronounced (you could identify a werewolf by giving them a silver coin onto their bare hand...). Seems like the Loup Garou is gonna be pretty much what I want werewolves to be in my games. :D

@heathharris2545 3 жыл бұрын

So I haven't been a fan of the changes they've made alot of the darklords but this is cool. I like that it has a mask attack. I don't know what that means, but I like it. Also the art is brutal. For what it's worth I run Remove Curse differently, especially for things like mummy's rot and lycanthropy. You have to have something connected to the thing that cursed you (a fang or canoptic jar) and usually other ingredients like wolfsbane to even attempt it.

@OrangeyChocolate 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve only played 5e, but I do feel like lycanthropes got the shaft hard compared to vampires. Glad to see that they’re being given such a major overhaul. I have two ways I’d fix Remove Curse, or at least nerf it enough that curses actually matter. First, the spell would require a rare and costly material component that is consumed by the casting, possibly requiring a specific item for a specific type of curse. Second, it would require either an ability check by the caster or a saving throw by the cursed creature, DC determined by how powerful the curse is and how long the target has been cursed. I’d still keep the spell 3rd level, though; a relatively inexperienced caster can *attempt* to remove a powerful curse, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to succeed.

@HAOSxy 3 жыл бұрын

YES! This is the kind of warewolf i was hoping to see!

@FallenRingbearer 3 жыл бұрын

Wolf has wares if you have coin...

@phobilao 2 жыл бұрын

You guys need to cover insanity/maddess mechanics!

@abouttime837 3 жыл бұрын

*VAN RICHTEN’S GUIDE TO RAVENLOFT TEETH*

@jeremymagsamen3265 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely think I'm gonna swap Kiril from curse of strahd to this.

@63rdLegionGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Add in the Were Hyena from Kobold Press (the only I use.... until now) and Lycanthrops are scary again. So excited

@jonasateo 3 жыл бұрын

Edit: Awesome video, completely agree! ~no views yet :D~ hope the video's got a bite to it!

@noahthehoneyboy6294 3 жыл бұрын

I always home brewed my werewolves. And it’s so incredible how close the changes I made are to the new stat block.

@stealthwaffl2676 3 жыл бұрын

The rule for the once a month chance sounds awesome. Likely to use if I use any lycanthropes in future games

@orionar2461 3 жыл бұрын

I'd probably make it once per day for lesser werewolves and have a dc of like 10+ CR.

@andrewyelle747 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video Todd so excited to use a REAL werewolf!

@justanotherdayinthelife9841 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@jongroskin729 2 жыл бұрын

Could you please do a video on Azalin Rex? I find him so compelling and terrifying.

@anthonymontague756 3 жыл бұрын

I'm really glad to hear this. Lycanthropes seem so week in standard 5e

@32Loveless50 2 жыл бұрын

well if you chose not to be cured, i would suggest the Grim Hollow books :) they got transformation rules for werewolf, vampire, lich and others, that are more balanced then the ones in the monster manual. they also got a better way to cure curses, where you have to collect special ingredients and then use them with the remove curse spell :)

@RickarRickani 3 жыл бұрын

You should read the Dresden Files Todd

@quentinkocher6261 3 жыл бұрын

i can not wait to start running this. Are the power checks going to be in 5e like 2ed

@tuxyb4263 3 жыл бұрын

It gives lycanthropy more bite as well as some bark

@Thurmanation2011s 3 ай бұрын

House Rule Werewolfs and other Lycans have regeneration. That's what I plan to do. No remove curse bullcrap either.

@lord6617 3 жыл бұрын

You guys live in a valheim house, that's awesome.

@togapika 2 жыл бұрын

Werewolf schmerewolf, where's my Were-Raccoon?

@kennygee83 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah my DM threw one of these at us last session, and I vorpaled it on my second hit.... He was devastated.... I have a feeling my character isn't long for this world.

@AwesomeFacedCactus 3 жыл бұрын

I hope your DM didn't have you outright kill it right then. A Vorpal Blade can't instakill a creature that has legendary actions. So...he might have missed that part. lol

@ParanormalEncyclopedia 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting idea for a secret society/druid group in Ravenloft based on the European witch trials and folklore. So there are stories, and even a witch trial which the transcript of is read on my channel, of good werewolves that hunt witches and demons. What about a secret group of infected who've figured out how to control some of their change and use it for good. Add a group hunting them just because werewolf equals evil or them having to take precautions because they lose control under the moon and theres a lot of potential.

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

" good werewolves that hunt witches & demons, .." That sounds like White Wolf/ World of Darkness: Vampire & Werewolf. Dark of the New Moon, plot. On every new moon for three nights a pack of werewolves groups up and tries to out do each other in bloody murderous pranks. Full moon, just out right attacks you, they take you down through brute strength. Waxing & waning moon, stalks and slow bleeds you through nips and they want to run you down in a panic chase. They hunt you as wolves hunt deer. New moons, they make a game out of death. They will tar & feather you first, then the " Great Chicken Hunt " can begin.

@ParanormalEncyclopedia 3 жыл бұрын

@@krispalermo8133 where do you think ww got the idea?

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

@@ParanormalEncyclopedia Yes D&D did came out before WW, but WW put out their monster campaign books before Ravenloft did their guide books.

@ParanormalEncyclopedia 3 жыл бұрын

@@krispalermo8133 Yes but the idea of werewwolves fighting witches and demons comes from midevil folklore which predate all of that by a few hundred years. There was even a trial by the roman inquisition of a Litvonian werewolf who claimed to do these things (reading of the transcript is on my channel).

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

@@ParanormalEncyclopedia COOL , you just got a new Sub !

@kaijukoopa1248 3 жыл бұрын

Love weres no matter..wolves being my fav beside rat or boar..maybe bear

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

Years ago, had a bard PC that was a weretiger, his flaw was when he gets .. drunk .. the kitty just love to climb trees, more so then hunting or killing people. Bad news, his human side is .. afraid .. of heights. So he was played for laughs. Since being an alcoholic, in tiger form he would go for a pitcher of wine before blood and binge drink. If he was angry & hungry despite being regarded as evil, he would start eating a horse before a human, although he did love games of .. cat & mouse, but his drinking problem always gets the best of him. Then he wakes up nude in a tree screaming for help, " Someone get me down from here !" Hope you have a good weekend, and not find anyone in a tree calling for help.

@freedfalchion9860 3 жыл бұрын

You deserved better Todd! Love your vids! Screw DnD for canning you!!!

@meikahidenori 3 жыл бұрын

We need shifters brought up to snuff to feel like they're lycan decendents...u like fixing werewolves ect, but these guys need a fix too!

@Rubymagicalgirl88 3 жыл бұрын

Oooh fun.

@phballer99 3 жыл бұрын

My issue with lycanthropy that make me like the original rule is RAW you lose control of your character and HAVE to be chaotic evil. I hate that. It's dumb. In most other fantasy, INCLUDING other were creatures in adventure books are other alignments and still mostly function normally. But that's just me. I also hate evil PCs because I like heroes in my D&D but that's again, just me.

@yeekoveryonder 3 жыл бұрын

Where are those illuminated potion bottles from?

@hellbornbeast 3 жыл бұрын

This is way my friends and I made a lineage for Lycans. Custom Lineage Option Lycanthrope. Lycanthrope Traits You have the following facial traits. Creature Type. You are Humanoid. Size. You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you gain this lineage. Speed. You walking speed is 30 feet. Ancestral Legacy. If you replace a race with this lineage, you can keep the following elements of that race: any skill proficiencies you gained from it and climbing, flying, or swimming speed you gained from it. If you don't keep any of those elements or choose this lineage at character creation, you gain proficiency in two skills of your choice. Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness as shades of grey. Keen Sense. You have advantage on Wisdom (Preception) checks involving Sight or Hearing. Change Shape. You can as a action transform into a hybrid form of your Lycanthrope lineage. In that from you gain Lycanthrope statistics shown in the DMG and Monster Manual such as speed, traits, and actions that don't involve equipment. In addition, at 5th level, you can polymorph in to the best of your Lycanthrope lineage. Its statistics, other then its size and speed, are the same as in your hybrid form. Any equipment you are wearing or carrying isn't transformed. You revert to its humanoid form if it dies.

@tomlok4254 3 жыл бұрын

You can also try to control the lycantrophie, and make it a playable trait or feature you can use. I'd really like a view on what kind of suggestions you can come up with to make it a fun and rewarding experience when you finally get the curse under control

@brucemaximus3797 3 жыл бұрын

I mean, Path of the Beast exists for Barbarians.

@tomlok4254 3 жыл бұрын

@@brucemaximus3797 yeah, but then its your whole class right? I mean, why should it be a class if it is a curse you can get as any class

@brucemaximus3797 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomlok4254 I would tell my player that if they want control of the lycanthropy, they'd need to take levels of Barbarian to control the bestial rage. Otherwise they might have some fringe benefits in "base form," but their transformation is completely out of their control. When the full moon comes, they had better be restrained or something. Just my prescription.

@Rolandais 3 жыл бұрын

Makes me sad, that Lycanthropy has become a Curse, rather than a disease. That said, not everyone thinks Lycanthropes are fun, or wants to have their character ruined by a DM who thinks it's fun to make you a villain or NPC, with a "Make a Single Saving throw, or it's over.", there are other worse systems for those sorts of things, like 3.X or Pathfinder 1. But, I do understand the frustration for those DM's who enjoy that sort of play, then again, Werecreatures are not really threats beyond level 5 PCs, for most things (Obviously changing now with Ravenloft) And you don't get Remove Curse until level 5 (At the earliest) That said, if you want to be a werewolf that can't just be cured, RAW, if your parents were Werewolves, only the spell Wish can remove the curse.

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

If your parents were nature born werewolves, then your DM is letting you play a monster ? White Wolf/World of Darkness, is a campaign setting set in the modern world where you can RPG werewolves and vampires. Also AD&D2e Ravenlof has Van Richten guides to run vampire/ werebeast - wolf npc in gothic style monster games with RP notes on how to run the personalities of those beings. Side note on natural real life wolves/ coyotes, unless they are pack up in full strength to hunt large game, they go after field mice, rats, and other small game. So anytime you see a large dog or wolf hunting rats in a farmer's field by a home stead, or see a few wolves play sheepdog around herd animals. You just might be dealing with werewolves in the area. As stated in AD&D2e from close to thirty years ago, PC are superheroes and no one wants their superhero to get killed. Then there is this thing about .. balance game play, so ... DM that run games of .. run or die .. or does TPK too often is not fun to be around. As a few people state, " Why can't werewolves become more dangerous after 5th level?' Cause the early books state monsters can't gain class levels to threaten PC superheroes and their teenage egos. Ran a few games that got PC lost in the forest for a week cause a pack of werewolves spook their horses. Humans can't cat/ dog nap, werewolves being .. well .. wolves can dog nap. Humans will drop from exhaustion or go nuts if they don't get REM sleep. Good news, they were not .. murderous, just thieves, and you can only rob the dead once. Hope you have a good weekend, and have fun with the puppies.

@knightghaleon 3 жыл бұрын

I think my genie warlock would shove the infected party member into the lamp until they change back as a means of "chaining them up". Yes the pillows will be slashed and feathers everywhere but until it is fixed, they can use the guest room in the lamp.

@richardstory6650 3 жыл бұрын

You want to be BATMAN! :D

@tyreeseweeks7706 3 жыл бұрын

Wait do you guys just make a Letterkenny reference during this?

@konahrikvolkihar0185 2 жыл бұрын

My question is this: if a player character gets infected, is there a way, whether time or specific activities, to gain SOME control of themselves under the Full Moon? And should they have to "advance" more to get the legendary stuff? Like maybe become an "Alpha" Loup Garou?

@bahamutkaiser 3 жыл бұрын

I like how 5 level healer using a third level spell is costless

@franthehunter7441 3 жыл бұрын

Out of combat, yes. You just need to cast it one time to remove it so no big deal, just long rest

@kawawangkowboy9566 3 жыл бұрын

Isn't Remove Curse what Fandom cast on D&D Beyond?

@admcleo 3 жыл бұрын

If two people get infected does only one get to be cured? If both are in the fight against it but neither gets the killing blow does it count? What if someone inflicts a fatal blow but is bitten before the beast expires, they technically killed it before they even became infected so do they get a save or are they permenantly borked?

@thomasshepherd8909 3 жыл бұрын

You don’t have to be the one to kill it, as long as it’s dead you can cure it

@matthewjennings7645 2 жыл бұрын

Todd, have you ever tried to play or DM with Gritty Realism?

@MegaPIC1 3 жыл бұрын

I know this is slightly off topic but i have a QUESTION One of the PCs in the campaign i'm running has just murdered another PC in the party simply because she was told to by a key she had just looted from an ogre. does this mean the murderer's alignment has to change from CN to CE? to clarify the ogre was in the service of the Annis hag the party is hunting and the player controlling the Halfling rogue that committed the murder stated afterwards that she took her character down this dark path in order to get close to the hag and kill her thereby in thory sving the party days trecking to her hideout and a massive battle that, given they are only level two they may not win. NOTE the player is new to D&D and didn't know how much larger an Annis Hag is compared to the Green hag the party has already met. she and her character therefore thought they had a chance of soloing an Annis Hag (CR6) while still only a level 2 halfling rogue

@axanarahyanda628 3 жыл бұрын

Killing an ally to save a bit of time? Unless not doing it would have even worse consequences, that totally is an evil act. I would do the alignment switch.

@MrSeth360 3 жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@mcnedelsky 3 жыл бұрын

So in the French translation, is the big boss called Where’s Wolf?

@TheBottegaChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Nah. Geveudon would be more appropriate. Loup garou is more creole or acadian. ;)

@glacialrelic7878 3 жыл бұрын

Why doesn't this thing have immunity to damage from non-silvered or magical weapons? Is this intended or misprint?

@ChrisMoneymakerDHRG 3 жыл бұрын

I have enjoyed Loup-Garue sense 2e when I played a priest of set that got infected by and married one. I used that as the basis for the adventure I wrote last year, Ravenloft: Prey of the Black Wolf. It’s on the DM’s Guild now. It’s sequel is being play tested right as I write this. If you like I could send you a copy to check out. For anyone else here’s its DM’s Guild link. www.dmsguild.com/m/product/314883

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

AD&D2e, Ravenloft: Van Richten guide to Werebeasts, in one passage it was stated if a werewbeast gets overly emotional in human form it could be trigger into shape changing, such as death over a love one, birth, or even a wedding. So we started one campaign where one of the PC's was getting married and their bride turn into a werewolf. The PC groom manage to out wrestle her and stay on her back long enough without getting bite so the rest of the wedding party threw all their robes on them to tie her up with the robes. " Well, not all women show their true nature on the first day of marriage." Her mother was one of the .. good time girls .. when she was younger, so the bride was a natural born and remove curse will not help her. But she did become the best field rat catcher/ eater in the village. As a plot hook, other alpha males cause trouble as they pass through to .. court .. her, along with monster hunter adventures looking for spell components, and random monsters that are tough enough to hunt werewolves for sport. Since my game shop also played White Wolf/ World of Darkness: Vampire & Werewolf, we took our Ravenlof games to a whole new level. Then again we also ran a game out of Mordentshire where we played more or less Welsh fishermen in a low magic, little horror, non adventure type play. Where we stayed away from haunted houses, and went for a bottle of rum after seeing any Call of Cthulhu sea monsters. Just normal everyday people that hunted wolves that come out of the eastern river forest during late fall and early winter, hunting snakes and large port rats, very small sea monster, with plenty of friendly drunken bar fights. Hope you have a good weekend, and all your Ravenlof mist fill adventures be survivable.

@ChrisMoneymakerDHRG 3 жыл бұрын

@@krispalermo8133 Cool. The adventure, I linked to is the first of 3 that end up with the PCs meeting my old PC and his wife. They have replaced the Baron and Baronies of a small part of Darkon. Depending on how it plays out the Alpha pare may become domain lords with a new small domain of their own.

@Sasqmo 3 жыл бұрын

I personally hate remove curse because it doesn't remove curses from items, 5e needs some kind of way to decurse items themselves

@mylesr4201 2 жыл бұрын

if infected by a loop gar you become a NORMAL werewolf, NOT a loup garou (I wish I was wrong but...). Please tell me if I am wrong.

@rogerwilco2 3 ай бұрын

A month in 6-7 sessions? What game do these people play? We've gone from level 1 to level 20 within a month of game time, but 4+ years of weekly sessions.

@shadowseir6981 3 жыл бұрын

What about wish spell?

@erickarnell 3 жыл бұрын

Wish can replace any spell up to eighth level as its "basic use", so Remove Curse is fine there. Overcoming the timing and dead loup garou requirement is the trick. Since Wish is supposed to be the ultimate powerful spell I would allow it, since to get that wish is probably going to be as tough as killing the loup garou.

@NoNamesLeft0102 3 жыл бұрын

Does this do anything that Grimhollow didn't do?

@skyrexotron5031 3 жыл бұрын

Wait what if you are already a lycanthrope? Do you just get another form or something?

@theeye8276 3 жыл бұрын

From what I can understand is that it just makes you a werewolf that's harder to be cured. I'd say your unaffected if you get the lesser form of the disease

@theeye8276 3 жыл бұрын

Would replacing the head werewolf in curse of strahd with loup ground stats be balanced? I don't like that he's just a standard werewolf with more health

@theeye8276 3 жыл бұрын

For context I expect the party to be level 6, 7, or 8.

@theeye8276 3 жыл бұрын

And a party of 4 pcs characters

@reubenfromow4854 3 жыл бұрын

No idea. Do it anyway!

@orionar2461 3 жыл бұрын

What's the CR difference

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

I had a part of 9th level PC throwing a fit cause the werewolf they were hunting was a 3rd level rogue in human state. They were brought down with simple trip rope & traps. a.) A young cursed werewolf is an unthinking beast running on untrained instincts. Over time the human side will start show more dog/ wolf like behavior and cunning. b.) A natural born werewolf will use full human tactics in wolf form to it advantage, if they are not a brute that seeks glory in strait up battle. They will be more than happy to .. spook .. your horse into a wild run to throw you. Or wait till your pants are down.

@Micolino9878 3 жыл бұрын

Remove Curse? You mean that spell no one remembers and always uses Greater Restoration instead of, wasting a 5th level spell slot and 100 gp worth of components every time?

@DavidFoxfire 3 жыл бұрын

I usually use _Remove Curse_ for Magical Based Curses and require _Greater Restoration_ for Lycanthropy.

@talscorner3696 3 жыл бұрын

Most of my pc's would still kill the guy, even if he was a good person: the benefits still outclass the moral issue of killing a "good person", whatever that means

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

Ravenloft campaign setting runs on a Morality factor where your PC can fall into the darkside and become monsters themselves if they are not careful.

@nathangodwin5348 3 жыл бұрын

Botch polymorph curse creaters. Island dr monroe

@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998 3 жыл бұрын

So... French Werewolves are meaner ? ^^ That also gives a lot of kick to French inspired dread domains. But yeah, regardless of how it’s named, that would be the next standard for werewolves ; just as it is for Vampires and Vampire spawns. That’s also, i think, what differentiates the Gothic Horror of Ravenloft compared to ordinary High Fantasy. Forgotten realms ? Yeah werewolves get to be those annoying Malar cultists. Nothing that would keep adventurers beyond lvl 5 on their toes. This, however ? Terrifying.

@geradenhraba770 3 жыл бұрын

Can u wish it away

@ShayneRawls 3 жыл бұрын

There shouldn't be any heavy consequences with catching lycanthropy because you have no control and this is something that happens to YOUR character. You can be doing everything right and then oop you have a curse that you don't want. Sounds too hard on the player

@krispalermo8133 3 жыл бұрын

Ravenloft is a .. horror .. game.

@ShayneRawls 3 жыл бұрын

@@krispalermo8133 so?

@theeye8276 3 жыл бұрын

Depends on the type of game. A character could do everything right and die too. Loup garou is CR 13 so some serious stuff can happen with it.

@grantaustin7311 3 жыл бұрын

ah dm's whining that the players have any kind of response tactic available instead of their characters just automatically being removed from the game.

@raicantgame6634 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, this conversation is kind of relevant to something that happened recently in one of my games. We got ambushed by a pack of werewolves, and while no one got infected anyway (despite two people getting chewed on like rawhide bones) I pointed out that if we did get infected we had multiple characters who could remove curse so it wasn't a big deal anyway. I think if I ever run my own game again I might reword Remove Curse. Make it a higher level, give it a material component, stuff to make it a little more uh, dire when curses happen.

@orionar2461 3 жыл бұрын

Remember that one of its other purposes is suprising cursed items, so that may not be the best idea

@raicantgame6634 3 жыл бұрын

@@orionar2461 I'm not sure what your concern is? My friends and I worked out a system i think is pretty good. It must be cast as a ritual, have a material component which changes based on the nature of the curse, some curses may require it be cast at a certain time or place, and a roll will need to be made to succeed, and you can upcast to lower the DC.

@orionar2461 3 жыл бұрын

@@raicantgame6634 Ot means you'll need to spend gold just for a character to get a cursed item off. Remember also in general that remove curse is incredibly niche as a spell, so that's why it's so good at what it does. Making have a higher spell level and cost means that its even less useful to choose as a spell

@raicantgame6634 3 жыл бұрын

1. The whole point is to make curses, yes including cursed items, more of an ordeal. If you have a cleric of 5th level or higher, curses essentially mean nothing because they're prepared casters, meaning all they need is a long rest to prepare that spell, then they just tap you and you're done. 2. I don't know how your games play, but in all of my games I've encountered ONE whole cursed item, and for plot reasons the DM has ruled its curse can't be removed with the spell and we need to go on a quest for it. 3. It's a homebrew mechanic, which I came up with with the help of my own D&D group. The only people who have to use it are the ones who made it in the first place.