My question is as the title suggests. We have seen werewolves, werebears, wererats, and even wereravens before. But I do not think I have ever seen a lycanthrope derived from a sea creature (like a werewhale, if you will).
I am less curious about if this is "allowed" (as DMs can do whatever they want in their campaigns), but more curious to whether there is an precedent for or against it in the lore. Is there any rule regarding how lycanthropes come to be and how the curse works that prevent it from happening?
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*Even though Tiamat is already two of those things.
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Wereshark's existed in 3E, if you ever wanted a quick stat-block you can just take the werebear, swap the climbing speed for a swim speed, replace greataxe with a trident and give it the amphibious and blood frenzy traits (from Sahuagin).
I don't think any of the books in 5E mention how lycanthropes came to exist, but one (sort-of) lycanthrope does have an origin, the Jackalwere. According to the Monster Manual, they were created from jackals by Grazzt, have a humanoid, Jackal and hybrid form and are probably the weakest monster with immunity to non-silver/magical weapons so are basically lycanthropes who can't curse other humans. So I assume any being of significant power could probably create new lycanthropes.
The concept of were-anything is quite the weird one.
It opens the possibility of players finding a town and thinking it's been afflicted by a terrible curse, then going off to find the cause of it only to find out that the town is populated by were-worms or some such.
Imagine arriving in town to see a wizard being insulted and swearing his revenge on the town, and then later that evening everyone in the town turns into a giant earthworm. Later you find out that the wizard was trying to cure them, but because everyone in town is a worm, no-one remembers it happening and so everyone denies being were-worms, so were insulted by the wizard offering to cure them!
My question is as the title suggests. We have seen werewolves, werebears, wererats, and even wereravens before. But I do not think I have ever seen a lycanthrope derived from a sea creature (like a werewhale, if you will).
I am less curious about if this is "allowed" (as DMs can do whatever they want in their campaigns), but more curious to whether there is an precedent for or against it in the lore. Is there any rule regarding how lycanthropes come to be and how the curse works that prevent it from happening?
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Weresharks have certainly existed in earlier editions.
I can find evidence of a werecrocodile, wereray, and wereshark in 2nd edition materials and a werecrocodile and wereshark in 3.0/3.5.
If a dragon can be a vampire (a main character in Rage, Rite, and Ruin) , a were-anything is perfectly fine...imo.
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*creates vampiric dracolich half-dragon planetouched were-tiamat*
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
*Even though Tiamat is already two of those things.
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
Not were-Tiamat, technically. Just Tiamat.
I have a weird sense of humor.
I also make maps.(That's a link)
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Wereshark's existed in 3E, if you ever wanted a quick stat-block you can just take the werebear, swap the climbing speed for a swim speed, replace greataxe with a trident and give it the amphibious and blood frenzy traits (from Sahuagin).
I don't think any of the books in 5E mention how lycanthropes came to exist, but one (sort-of) lycanthrope does have an origin, the Jackalwere. According to the Monster Manual, they were created from jackals by Grazzt, have a humanoid, Jackal and hybrid form and are probably the weakest monster with immunity to non-silver/magical weapons so are basically lycanthropes who can't curse other humans. So I assume any being of significant power could probably create new lycanthropes.
The concept of were-anything is quite the weird one.
It opens the possibility of players finding a town and thinking it's been afflicted by a terrible curse, then going off to find the cause of it only to find out that the town is populated by were-worms or some such.
Imagine arriving in town to see a wizard being insulted and swearing his revenge on the town, and then later that evening everyone in the town turns into a giant earthworm. Later you find out that the wizard was trying to cure them, but because everyone in town is a worm, no-one remembers it happening and so everyone denies being were-worms, so were insulted by the wizard offering to cure them!
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I know I have come across a few others, but off the top of my head:
Pretty sure there are a few more in the older editions