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The solution I came up with for why werewolves were a thing but not a pandemic was that there was a three part stage of stuff. 1 Original Curse. Cursed person has no control over their werebeast, they fully black out and are beasts and are infectious murder beasts. 2 Infected. Turned into...

I had two PCs be narratively Werewolf the Apocalypse style werebeasts in a 5e game. One was mechanically a human druid who narratively was a werewolf wolf changing into human form. The other was mechanically a shifter barbarian who would change into their werebear hybrid form when using...

In 3e once afflicted you have the involuntary changes from the moon and chances of changin when you are wounded. You can try to resist with a wisdom check that can be bolstered by a developed skill. You then get the blackout if you fail and are temporarily an NPC acting on the werebeast's...

Lycanthropy varies a lot by edition. In AD&D it was supposed to make you an NPC if you ever give in to the urges. Which makes it a fairly terrible thing to include in games casually. In 3e it gives you essentially a couple levels in a really crappy class (animal HD) with an LA on top of it, plus...

I don't see that as the clear 1e rationale. From the 1e PH MU class description page 25: "Furthermore, they can wear no armor and have few weapons they can use, for martial training is so foreign to magic-use as to make the two almost mutually exclusive." My read of this is that the clearest...

I am almost exclusively D&D for things I run. I have played a number of other games (GURPS, WFRP, Palladium, Rolemaster, Star Frontiers, Shadowrun, Vampire the Masquerade, Mutants & Masterminds, Everquest RPG, Honey Heist, Kids on Bikes, homebrew systems, etc.), and I am up for most games as a...

From the OP. :) A minorly common thing here to ask that the thread responses engage positively with the topic and not be used as a place to suggest how instead something different should be done or the topic is a bad idea. So a request to talk about positives of Greyhawk and not use it as an...

The Widow's Tear Starfinder Undead: This silver-blue band is known as the Disquiet Veil. It is believed to be the remains of a rare cosmic event: two icy planetoids that collided on the edge of the system, blasting one another into oblivion. Gravity and time brought the icy remnants together...

And yet . . . :)

The 2e Warriors & Priests of the Realms had a kit for priests of Tyr the justice god who acted as judges, the Scales of Tyr.

My favorite option for RPG classes in the legal field was in Warhammer where they had two that I remember, I played the first. :)

Official Basic D&D did not use rate of fire or AC adjustments, and a lot of OSR is based off of B/X. OSRIC and Astonishing Swordwmen & Sorcerers of Hyperboria are standout 1e variants. I tried to use the AC adjustments in practice for a while but the conceptual incoherence of doing that for...

Rat-Monkey Kong With a Hat

Strange Worlds: Dead Planets Starfinder Undead: ? Bloodshade: Bloodshades are the remains of the dead, leftover after battles or massacres that killed tens of thousands of individuals. The amount of negative energy unleashed in those situations eventually coagulate, taking on an ooze-like form...

I have not rolled since AD&D. I just use stuff out of the book with the average hp done out. In my online Fantasy Grounds game the monsters show up with the default hp. I wouldn't even know how to have it roll for them. When I tune monsters such as making them a 4e style elite I manually...

Me too. "Ostensibly he is a wealthy river merchant plying his trade on the Musarde. . . . His boat is the only one assured of safe travel across the domain, and the natives know it. They attribute this to wealth, luck, and savvy."

That is the 1e DMG rule. So applicable in I6 and I10. :) The 2e DMG optional one is alive until -10 hp like in 3e. A cure light wounds often was the at hand way to save a person dying from wounds in 2e. It was a consideration for me in both of the 2e Ravenloft campaigns I ran. I am sure...