Comments on: Characters: The Lycanthrope

By: dante

dante — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:27:55 +0000

that could work, just make sure you have enough refresh

By: Essex

Essex — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:55:11 +0000

I may be looking foolish in asking this, but has any one considered multi classing a lycanthrope? I mean, in the books several vamps can use magic of some kind or another. What about a lycanthrope sorcerer? I have never played Spirit of the Century before so I don’t know the mechanics, but that is one of my running concepts for a character. The other is a flashy warden recruit who hates the lycanthrope.

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:19:42 +0000

lmao that is funny….I am kinda behind the times on these but I only just discovered this….to all of you who are complaining about the Lycanthropes being weak I agree with the people who say to have more than one character and about having several Lycanthropes in a group to help out.

Personally when I DM or GM in this case especially when I made a campaign with my 8 yr old brother who has limited grasp of D&D I made an NPC for myself to use and along the way I added several more powerful NPCs to help along so that might be a good Idea to use as well…just my personal opinion.

By: Mostlyjoe

Mostlyjoe — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:45:48 +0000

Ah. I can see it now. 90% of the time my character is a hard drinking, gun totting bad ass. Then the moon is right…and he starts laughing, and laughing, and oh they’re running away. Come back, I want to beat you to death with my cell phone. It’s got great signal..ahahahahahahahaha!!!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:18:47 +0000

Ok, these are the Lycanthropes, not the rage spirit wolves with the belts.. (The bikers from Fool Moon, not the FBI)
I like the idea.. I could have fun just playing a part of a twosome or threesome. (Hrmm a brother/sister pair might be really interesting)

By: fred

fred — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:06:16 +0000

@Dan from Chicago, that's how I'd run it -- mostly with aspect stuff.

By: Dan from Chicago

Dan from Chicago — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:15:20 +0000

Okay, so I grabbed this from the Red Court infected character archtype:

and there might be an argument happening in their skull between the red court monster within and the rage spirit that wants to take the wheel and drive

How does the rage spirit play out in the Rules? Is it part of the high concept?

By: Dan from Chicago

Dan from Chicago — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:19:55 +0000

Imagine if you had a bunch of Lycanthropes in the Military … the always on stunts would be hugely useful and five days out of 28 they would be super dangerous

High-Concept: Wolf-Brother in Arms(Lycanthrope)
Aspect: I did my time in the Fort Bragg Stockade(Special Forces)

Fun idea … if there’s any minion stunts ala SOTC you could have a bunch of Military buddies you could call up for the big fight via Fate points … maybe Special Forces was clued into taking down the ‘Really Weird stuff’ like Murph’s special investigations has too sometimes.

The player character got cashiered because somebody had to take down the menace and there was no way to explain what was really going on to the un-clued in brass, but his wolf-brothers in arms know he’s one of the good guys and show up to help when really needed

By: Cyberchihuahua

Cyberchihuahua — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:23:31 +0000

I like the archetype, and I think it nails the description in the book. Like minor talents, a Lycanthrope PC will just have to more going for him than his magic side.

As far as verisimilitude in the game, one option might be rotating characters. Jut like Thomas and Ramirez are not in every book, I plane on my group having two PCs, and using the plot buildup to determine early on in the adventure which PC gets brought in. If a PC wants to have a Lycanthrpe, but feels hes not very valuable outside of the full moon, he has another option.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:35:16 +0000

hmm see everyone’s thinking about this as if there were only one lycanthrope and true enough if theres only one playing in a game his talents are pretty much useless… but more likely than not it will be more the ambush and overwelm mentality with 4 or 5 lycanthropes froming a pack making it harder to take out 1 without the others beating you to a pulp (or shooting)… now that being said just the standard layout doesn’t seem like enough if just one person is playing in this class. in the book i believe it says something along the lines that one of the females in the group could incite a blood lust in the others making them stronger, faster, but decreasing there reasoning that would be a useful talent to have even if it was a once a day ability.