Special Conversion Thread: Lycanthropes and their ilk

[Cleon]

Hmmm, let's just think about damage first. We also have to worry about appropriate damage by size, too. Here's a proposal: dragon form has the same damage by attack as a dragon of the same size. Hybrid bite and claw attacks have damage equal to the claw of a dragon of the same size. And wing/tail slaps have the same damage as those attacks for a dragon of the same size.

The start of that looks fine, but if we give the hybrid form wing & tail attacks I'd treat them as a size smaller than the dragon form.

 

[freyar]

I like that! So, maybe this:

Attacks: Same as the base creature or base dragon, depending on which form the weredragon is using. A weredragon in hybrid form gains two claw attacks and a bite attack as natural weapons. A Large or larger hybrid form gains a wing attack, and a Huge or larger hybrid form gains a tail slap attack, if the base dragon has those attacks.

Damage: Same as base creature or base dragon, depending on which form the weredragon is using. In hybrid form, the claw and bite attacks have the damage of a dragon of the same size, while wing and tail slap attacks have the damage of a dragon one size category smaller.

 

[Cleon]

I like that! So, maybe this:

Attacks: Same as the base creature or base dragon, depending on which form the weredragon is using. A weredragon in hybrid form gains two claw attacks and a bite attack as natural weapons. A Large or larger hybrid form gains a wing attack, and a Huge or larger hybrid form gains a tail slap attack, if the base dragon has those attacks.

Damage: Same as base creature or base dragon, depending on which form the weredragon is using. In hybrid form, the claw and bite attacks have the damage of a dragon of the same size, while wing and tail slap attacks have the damage of a dragon one size category smaller.

I thought we were making the Hybrid form's bite do damage as a one size smaller dragon too. That is:

Damage: Same as base creature or base dragon, depending on which form the weredragon is using. In hybrid form, the claw attacks have the damage of a dragon of the same size, while the bite, wing and tail slap attacks have the damage of a dragon one size category smaller.
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Also, are you against Tail Sweep as well as Crush? If the hybrid form has a Tail Slap attack I'm fine giving it Tail Sweep at Gargantuan, like so:

Attacks: Same as the base creature or base dragon, depending on which form the weredragon is using. A weredragon in hybrid form gains two claw attacks and a bite attack as natural weapons. A Large or larger hybrid form gains a wing attack, a Huge or larger hybrid form gains a tail slap attack, and a Gargantuan or larger hybrid form gains a tail sweep attack, if the base dragon has those attacks.

Damage: Same as base creature or base dragon, depending on which form the weredragon is using. In hybrid form, the claw attacks and tail sweep attack have the damage of a dragon of the same size, while the bite, wing and tail slap attacks have the damage of a dragon one size category smaller.
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Acceptable?