Discussion:What do you do if a PC playing a Vampire gets bit by a Lycan?

What do you do if a PC playing a Vampire gets bit by a Lycan?

Kisame93 17:28, 13 March 2008 (MST)

What do you do if a PC playing a Vampire gets bit by a Lycan?

Othtim 19:02, 13 March 2008 (MDT)

Vampires can contract Lycanthrophy, and vice versa. Check out this D&D Fight Club entry at Wizards for more info.

Kelly 02:04, 14 March 2008 (MDT)

<What do you do if a PC playing a Vampire gets bit by a Lycan?>

Ummm, somebody who should probably be playing White Wolf games?

Daniel Draco 06:21, 14 March 2008 (MDT)

I'm not familiar with many sorts of wizards' articles, but it looks like that is just the opinion of that author. Lycanthropy is not technically considered by the rules to be a disease, but this is probably because it simply works differently from other diseases. It can be cured with a remove disease spell, the victim must succeed on a fortitude save to avoid getting it, and it is spread from one character to another...so it would be reasonable to, for all intents and purposes, treat it like a disease. Vampires, being undead, are immune to disease. Therefore, I would only allow a lycanthropic vampire if it was a lycanthrope before it became a vampire, not vice versa.

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Sledged (talk) 2008 March 14 09:20 (MDT)

“ “Lycanthrope” is a template that can be added to any humanoid or giant (referred to hereafter as the base creature). ” —First sentence of Creating a Lycanthrope, SRD Vampires are undead, so they don't qualify for the template. Only humanoids and giants. However, as Daniel said, a humanoid lycanthrope qualifies for the vampire template.

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Sam Kay 14:13, 14 March 2008 (MDT)

No lycanthorpe spiders then? Oh well... Do Vampire Spiders work?

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Sledged (talk) 2008 March 14 14:43 (MDT)

Vampire template on a monstrous spider? No, the template can only be applied to humanoids and monstrous humanoids. However, (and I think you'll like this), you could take a humanoid and give it the entomanothrope template, and then apply the vampire template. The entomanothrope template works like the lycanthrope template, except it applies to vermin instead of animals. Edit: Better yet, take a werespider and give it the drider template. Imagine what the hybrid form would look like. On a side note, the terms "lycanthrope" and "entomanothrope" are misnomers outside of wolves and insects, respectively. They should be called "therianthropes" and "arthropanthropes." Of course, with the latter term, players and DMs might make creatures like wereshrimp.

There's no better laugh than the one that you're ashamed to share with your mother. —Stephen Notley, creator of Bob the Angry Flower A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. —Ford Prefect in "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams

Sam Kay 14:58, 14 March 2008 (MDT)

Wow! cool! I see where the term "entomanothrope"- entomology. Incidentally, the study of entomology includes arachnids as well as insects...

I really do have to try that sometime... A werespider drider.

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Sledged (talk) 2008 March 14 15:17 (MDT)

Entomology applies to arachnids and insects? Then what's the study of only insects?

There's no better laugh than the one that you're ashamed to share with your mother. —Stephen Notley, creator of Bob the Angry Flower A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. —Ford Prefect in "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams

Sam Kay 15:48, 14 March 2008 (MDT)

Wait... Ah, Entomology is the study of insects (as I have just checked), but it is often combined with Arachnology and studied together as they are simular subjects and overlap quite alot, thus an entomologist will study arachnology also and visa-versa.

Ryan B. 16:23, 14 March 2008 (MDT)

Cool, hey thanks you guys...lol so now he dosent have to be one. whew

Aarnott 23:28, 14 March 2008 (MDT)

I thought the were-vermin template is so cool that I just templated a Fire Giant/Huge Monstrous Scorpion: [[Fire Giant, Crassicauda (DnD Creature)|Fire Giant, Crassicauda]]. Pretty tough for a CR 15.

85.81.205.130 12:15, 7 August 2008 (MDT)

(posted by Hijax) I just got a wierd idea. why dont make a spellcaster a where-spider, and then lich! try to think about the amorphous form!

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