Homebrew Weretiger Species Details
Weretigers are ferocious hunters and warriors with a haughty and fastidious nature. Lithe and sleekly muscular in humanoid form, they are taller than average and meticulously groomed. Weretigers grow to enormous size in animal and hybrid form, but they fight in their more refined humanoid form when they can. They don't like to pass on their curse, because every new weretiger means competition for territory and prey. Weretigers live in jungles on the fringes of humanoid civilization, traveling to isolated settlements to trade or revel. They live and hunt alone or in small family groups.
Weretiger Traits
Some traits can only be used when the weretiger is in certain forms.Damage Immunities
Bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage not made with silvered weapons.
Ability Score Fixer
The character gains a strength of 17 if their score wasn't already higher.
Shapechanger
The weretiger can use its action to polymorph into a tiger-humanoid hybrid or into a tiger, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
Keen Hearing and Smell
The weretiger has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.
Attacks
Pounce (Tiger or Hybrid Form Only) Reach 5ft, one target. The weretiger uses 5ft of movement to pounce up to 5ft towards a creature. The target must a make a Dexterity check with a DC of the weretigers strength modifier+ Their proficiency bonus+ 8. On a failed save, the weretiger pounces on top of the target, and does 2D8 piercing damage. There is a 50% chance the target will have the curse of weretiger lycanthropy. If the target succeeds on the dexterity check, the tiger goes 1D4 feet past the target and is knocked prone.
Bite (Tiger or Hybrid Form Only) +5 to hit, reach 5ft, one target. Hit: 1D10+2 piercing damage. If the target is humanoid, it must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC 8+ the weretiger's proficiency bonus+ the weretiger's constitution modifier) or be cursed with weretiger lycanthropy.
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