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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7562319" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>I would rather include the idea in the Mystaran Weremako subentry. It seems thematically appropriate to have a creature in fish form be unable to breathe air.</p><p></p><p>Actually, under a strict interpretation of the SRD, since the Lycanthropy template only adds the shapechanger subtype a human wereshark would be unable to breathe water even in shark form since it doesn't gain the Aquatic subtype.</p><p></p><p>Come to think of it, Merrow are NOT amphibious. They only have the Aquatic subtype. I will correct that copy-paste holdover from the standard Weremako in the next update.</p><p></p><p>I wonder what the official version of the Wereshark has to say on the subject…</p><p></p><p>Well I checked the <strong><em>Lost Empires of Faerûn</em></strong> and <strong><em>Monsters of Faerûn</em></strong> versions and neither of them made any mention of breathing water or gills, so I guess they forgot about the issue too!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Updating <strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=7522799#post7522799" target="_blank">Weremako Working Draft</a></strong>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, the <em>Rules Cyclopedia</em> (1991) version of the Wereshark is Chaotic. That's the most recent "monster" version of the creature so I'm inclined to follow that lead. The <em>Night Howlers</em> version is from 1992 but that's for "PC" Weresharks so I feel they'd be biased in favour of neutrality and even those are "insatiable killers" during involuntary transformations.</p><p></p><p>Admittedly the <em>Companion Set</em> (1984) and <em>X7 War Rafts of Kron</em> (1984) monster entries give them an alignment of "N" but I suspect that's a typo due to them appearing in the normally Neutral "Shark" entry rather than the normally Chaotic "Lycanthropy" entry.</p><p></p><p>The actual encounter writeups of <em>War Rafts of Kron</em> all list Weresharks as "C".</p><p></p><p>For example, in encounter 21 "THE SHARKS’ DEN":</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7562319, member: 57383"] I would rather include the idea in the Mystaran Weremako subentry. It seems thematically appropriate to have a creature in fish form be unable to breathe air. Actually, under a strict interpretation of the SRD, since the Lycanthropy template only adds the shapechanger subtype a human wereshark would be unable to breathe water even in shark form since it doesn't gain the Aquatic subtype. Come to think of it, Merrow are NOT amphibious. They only have the Aquatic subtype. I will correct that copy-paste holdover from the standard Weremako in the next update. I wonder what the official version of the Wereshark has to say on the subject… Well I checked the [B][I]Lost Empires of Faerûn[/I][/B] and [B][I]Monsters of Faerûn[/I][/B] versions and neither of them made any mention of breathing water or gills, so I guess they forgot about the issue too! Updating [B][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=7522799#post7522799"]Weremako Working Draft[/URL][/B]. Actually, the [I]Rules Cyclopedia[/I] (1991) version of the Wereshark is Chaotic. That's the most recent "monster" version of the creature so I'm inclined to follow that lead. The [I]Night Howlers[/I] version is from 1992 but that's for "PC" Weresharks so I feel they'd be biased in favour of neutrality and even those are "insatiable killers" during involuntary transformations. Admittedly the [I]Companion Set[/I] (1984) and [I]X7 War Rafts of Kron[/I] (1984) monster entries give them an alignment of "N" but I suspect that's a typo due to them appearing in the normally Neutral "Shark" entry rather than the normally Chaotic "Lycanthropy" entry. The actual encounter writeups of [I]War Rafts of Kron[/I] all list Weresharks as "C". For example, in encounter 21 "THE SHARKS’ DEN": [/QUOTE]
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