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So, I feel like people are missing some important details here. You don’t have to make the save every night. You only have to make it when you go unconscious while the moon is in the sky. The moon being in the sky only really coincides with the hours most people sleep for a few days a month, and...

Oh, I see. Yeah, that would be the first thing I’d try. I actually already edited the opening post to drop the DCs by 5, because that seems to be the consistent feedback I’m getting.

Easiest fix to what? Yes, well I set the DCs the way I did because I want it to still be pretty likely for high-Charisma characters to shapeshift under the full moon. The idea is for the better approach to be to try to avoid having to make the save in the first place - staying in a Hallowed...

Yeah, this problem has gotten worse for me lately too. I don’t know if there’s anything to be done about it, but figured I’d add my voice to those saying “this is an experience I’m having that makes me less inclined to visit the site.”

I would guess there’s selection bias at work here, because there are certainly RPG communities in which player mapping is very popular. But, yes, my experience has also been that most of the people playing D&D 5e don’t want to do player mapping, and that’s fine. Of course. I think it goes...

For the players, obviously. Characters, in this context, are game mechanical constructs that can’t make decisions or solve puzzles.

Personally I think being exacting about it is missing the point. If you just want the players to have an accurate map of the dungeon, it would be more effective to make it yourself (you can give it to them piecemeal if you want to preserve the fog of war effect). The point of having the players...

He asked how other people handle mapping at their table. “I don’t, because my players don’t enjoy it” is a perfectly fine answer. “You shouldn’t, because I don’t enjoy it” is understandably a less welcome sentiment.

Personally, I think making a map as you go, as players, is a fun part of dungeon adventures that it’s a shame so few groups want to do any more. I wouldn’t make a group map the dungeon if they didn’t want to (and don’t, because my regulars don’t enjoy it). But I think it’s a fun part of the...

I wanted to make it a problem. Or, rather, a double-edge sword, because suddenly gaining a dozen HP worth of regeneration that only your party member with the silver sword can turn off when you get KO’d in a fight is actually kind of a huge buff, and there are a lot of precautions you can take...

I mean, that’s a base D&D assumptions problem, not a specific to my version of lycanthropy problem. But, sure, I could definitely see the common folk being distrustful of Druids and other non-lycanthrope shapeshifters. Cool, thanks!

If you’re designing the dungeon yourself, you could design it to be easily mappable with a node graph by following a few simple design principles. Give each room a distinctive feature, ensure room exits always align with the cardinal directions, never have more than one room exit per cardinal...

Oh, I see. Good question! Given the intentional parallels between the forced transformation and possession by extraplanar entities, I would think a druid, for example, would view a lycanthrope as a person possessed by an animal spirit. They might be inclined to seek a way to appease, calm, or...

People seem very concerned about the DCs, that’s good feedback, I could tone them all down by 5. I’m just concerned that if I do the new moon saves will be gestural at best.

😡 That’s so bizarre! Thanks for letting me know, I’ll keep working on it,

No, I wrote my own homebrew mechanic to work the way I wanted it to, and I thought I’d share it for anyone who might be interested. If you don’t like it that’s fine, you’re welcome to use this Nightfell product, or your own homebrew, or the RAW lycanthropy rules, or whatever you want.

How strange. Well, I think it should be fixed now.

Yes, it’s meant to be a significant problem for the party. You could tone all the DCs down if you want it to be less dangerous. Or make it easier to cure, I guess. They’re contagious

That’s weird, it should just be in the default text color (which is black in light mode and white in dark mode)… I’ll see if I can do anything to fix it.

No known way. It’s possible Wish might work, but if so that’s not common knowledge. If players want to seek out a genie or something to try to Wish for their lycanthrope party member to be cured, they can certainly try. To be clear, I would definitely allow that to work. Those last two...