TOPIC: Lycanthropy Question

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Druegar wrote: per Jeff:

• Using an item that removes disease on a lycanthropic monster will not rid the monster of its lycanthropy.
• Player characters infected with lycanthropy cannot regenerate damage inflicted by silver.

As a reminder, in a TD adventure, PCs infected with lycanthropy do not change form. They struggle against changing for a round, then act normally.

Just out of curiosity--what does the first point refer to? The lycanthropy rules indicate that Remove Disease (paladin special ability), Scroll of Cure Disease, and Scroll of Remove Disease will work. Is there something else that won't? And, if so--why?

Did you mean "remove curse?"

I think he was making the point that players cannot remove lycanthropy from a monster in the dungeon. Remove Disease(scroll or ability) can used to only to remove lycanthropy from a player character.

Yes that is it exactly. I had asked if we could 'cure' monsters of Lycanthrope.

Druegar wrote: • Using an item that removes disease on a lycanthropic monster will not rid the monster of its lycanthropy.

SageSTL wrote: Just out of curiosity--what does the first point refer to?

It was an attempt to answer this question asked by jedibcg:

What would happen if we attempted to use something that would cure disease on a Lycanthrope? In either beast form or human.

SageSTL wrote: The lycanthropy rules indicate that Remove Disease (paladin special ability), Scroll of Cure Disease, and Scroll of Remove Disease will work. Is there something else that won't? And, if so--why?

I don't think I am understanding your question. There are hundreds of things that won't work to get rid of lycanthropy. Remove Paralysis, Shocking Grasp, Turn Undead, Bardsong....

SageSTL wrote: Did you mean "remove curse?"

No. In TD, lycanthropy is a disease, not a curse. I deliberately didn't use the phrase "remove disease" because I didn't want to imply a limitation to the scroll "Remove Disease" or the paladin ability of the same name. When used on a PC, an effect that gets rid of disease will get rid of that character's lycanthropy infection. When used on a monster, an effect that gets rid of disease will not get rid of that monster's lycanthropy infection.

Sorry, I wasn't connecting your response to that question--I thought it was contradicting the previous information about using remove disease (and thought that perhaps the ruling was meant to refer to "Remove Curse"). My bad.

I amended my earlier post to say...

Player characters infected with lycanthropy cannot magically heal or regenerate damage inflicted by silver.

Lycanthropic monsters and PCs share the same vulnerability to damage from silver. I apologize for not catching that earlier.

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What about elemental damage? Do lycanthropes regenerate damage from fire and acid?

In TD, Lycanthropes do not have any extra vulnerability to Fire or Acid.


Side Note: In TD, there are four elements: Cold (Water), Fire (Fire), Shock (Air), and Sonic (Earth). In TD, Acid is not an element, it's just Acid.

That gives me an opportunity to complain that the Circlet of Elemental Mastery doesn't allow wizards to change a damage type to sonic!

bpsymington wrote: That gives me an opportunity to complain that the Circlet of Elemental Mastery doesn't allow wizards to change a damage type to sonic!

If you want to do sonic damage, play a bard.