Editing Werewolf (section)

===[[Dungeons & Dragons]]===
Werewolves started out as just the "lycanthrope" monster type, but issues of Dragon Magazine and later editions allowed players to add werewolf-ism as a feature of their character, or to take lycanthrope as a race like "elf" or "dwarf." Werewolves are always the disease type, with voluntary transformations. They are immune to damage unless you're using magic or silver weapons. There were also '''[[wolfwere]]s,''' which are basically bizarro werewolves who have a huge hate-on for their opposite numbers, '''[[seawolf|seawolves]]''', which were seafaring werewolves, '''[[loup-garou]]''', which were more powerful werewolves, and '''[[loup de Noir]]''', which are mythological skinchanger type werewolves. All of these kinds were pretty common in [[Ravenloft]] setting. The 3.5 Edition setting "Eberron" adds the [[Shifter]], which are distant descendants of true lycanthropes with watered-down lycanthrope traits.

Although the laundry list of powers and the strongly established "bloodthirsty monster" fluff makes it difficult, D&D has made some attempts to offer a playable werewolf. In BECMI, they were amongst the many therianthropes made playable in the Creature Collection #4. In [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], fan-made rules for werewolf (and other [[therianthrope]]) PCs can be found in the [[Books of S|"Book of Souls"]] netbook for [[Ravenloft]]. In 3rd edition, you could just slap the werewolf template on your PC, although that [[Level Adjustment]] was a bitch, and [[Dragon Magazine]] #313 offered the werewolf (and several other therianthropes) as "racial classes" you could take. 4th edition, finally, had character themes for the werewolf, wererat and werebear in [[Dragon Magazine]] #410, granting players some extra features and some optional utility powers so they could be shapeshifting wolf-monsters without being overpowered compared to the rest of the party.
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