Topic: Lycanthropy infection

[mtpnj]

The creature book lists the percentage chance of infection from each type of Lycanthrope.  So once infected is there another disease resistance roll and if so what level?

[yammahoper]

I have always played once infected, the disease runs it course.  There is no resistaning if you get infected, sort of like a bullet to the head cannot be resisted.  Well, maybe by a werecreature.

[arakish]

When I have handled lycanthropy as a disease, I have allowed a disease RR to not get infected.

When I have handled lycanthropy as a curse, I have allowed a Channeling RR to not get cursed.

Your method is up to you if you are the GM.  Otherwise, it is up to your GM.

Then again, I have also handled it like yammahopper.  It runs it course and is only curable through magic such as "Ensorcellment Cure."

rmfr

[bpowell]

Well in my campaign I through in a monkey wrench (don't we all?).  I have three methods of contracting Lycanthropy.

1)  It is a disease.  In this case I give a Disease RR.  Depending on the Lycanthrope depends on the RR.
2)  It is a curse.  In this case I give a RR against the Realm of the curse.  OD course this means there are mods for this RR and it is very difficult.
3)  I have a Lycanthorpic (Is that word....is now) race.  THey can pass on the "Gift" to a willing member of another race.  In this case there is no RR.

To date only one player has ever gone route #3.  And I then married her.  LOL

[Nortti]

In my game:

A werewolf has magical abilities. Transformation to a lycanthrope brings those magical features. Werewolf is not just an animal and lycanthropy is not just a disease.  Therefore a cleric or a paladin should have much better chances to resist the affliction than lets say a fighter with high constitution. Werewolf might just try to kill the cleric as it knows cleric probably cannot be changed to a lycanthrope.

[NanoEther]

I have a number of types of Lycanthropes, and I don't tell the players what type they've run into, they have to figure it out:
Curse: may be Transmittable or Confined (non-transmittable)
Disease: treated as a blood disease
Birth: racial sub-type, may be transmittable or not

There can be overlap, a player in a friends game is suffering from a curse one of his ancestors acquired: it is only passed down through the male descendent's. This is primarily a confined transmission curse, but it is also by birth.
The disease form can be treated as an STD, where it may not only have a chance to infect the mother, it also has a chance to infect the child (which is a good explanation for where birth lycanthropes originate from)