Path of the Lycan

Lycanthropy is an ancient and horrible curse that changes the afflicted into a mindless beast with an insatiable hunger for flesh. However, there are some warriors who purposefully contract this dreadful disease, willing to give themselves to the curse to harness its power. These bestial warriors often gain their powers from an aging mentor or clan leader who seeks an apprentice to take up their mantle. Regardless of the circumstances, barbarians who walk the Path of the Lycan use the fury of their rage to control this curse, avoiding the typical cycle of uncontrolled and wild transformation.

Keen Senses

When you adopt this primal path at level 3, the curse of lycanthropy makes you more bestial in nature. You have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) checks you make that rely on your sense of hearing or smell.

Hybrid Form

The ferocity of your rage allows you to control the curse within your blood. Starting at level 3, when you enter rage, you partially transform into your lycanthropic form, granting you the following benefits for the duration of your rage:

• Your hide grows coarse and thick. You gain a bonus to your Armor Class equal to half of your proficiency bonus.
• Your teeth elongate into sharp fangs. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use your bonus action to make a bite attack, which deals 1d6 piercing damage on hit. When you use this bite attack, you can choose to gain temporary hit points equal to the piercing damage dealt.
• As a bonus action, you can move up to your full movement speed toward a hostile creature that you can see.

Animal Form

You have gained a greater measure of control over your curse. Upon reaching level 6, as an action on your turn, you can expend a use of your rage to transform into your animal form, much like a druid does with their Wild Shape ability.

Choose a beast of CR 1 or lower that best represents the animal your lycanthropy is based on. Once you choose your animal form, you cannot change the type of beast you transform into with this feature. When you transform into your animal form, you follow the rules of the Wild Shape feature from the druid class. 

Your animal form lasts for 1 hour. You then revert to your normal form unless you expend another use of your rage. You revert to your normal form at any time if you use an action to transform back, fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

Lycan Mastery

You have fully dominated the curse that runs within your blood, allowing you to unleash the full potential of your power. Starting at level 10, when you rage, you can expend an additional use of your rage to heighten the abilities of your hybrid form, giving you new benefits:

• You can become Large in size if you were not already.
• The reach of your melee attacks increases by 5 feet.
• Your bite attack counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity.
• At the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1) if you have less than half of your total hit points.

Howl of Primal Fury

Your mastery over your curse has reached its apex. Beginning at level 14, once per rage, you may use a bonus action to let forth a bloodcurdling howl. Creatures of your choice within 45 feet that can hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw. The save DC is equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier. On a failed save, a creature is frightened for one minute. They can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on a success.