- What are the possible and logical results of a therianthrope mating with their viable humaniod and animal mates?
- How does one determine the aging from birth to maturity, middle age, and so forth for a natural therianthrope?
Thoughts and ideas?
While it's beside the point of your post, I feel compelled to mention that I deal with this on a setting by setting basis. In Ravenloft? The curse of the beast is precisely that, a curse. Even natural shapechangers, in my opinion, are not truly in control when their change is triggered- they just ride the frenzy a little better.Tadelin wrote:I've also never taken well to the alignment restrictions placed on characters, and always thought that every non-outsider has a chance to be of any alignment, more so than the books imply should be the case.
I'd say it depends on the shape the shifter in question was wearing. If a male werewolf mates with a female wolf, the kids are going to be wolves. I would house-rule such offspring as being latent shapeshifters whose only alternate form is a bipedal hybrid, and whose bite carries a very tiny chance of transmitting the curse.What are the possible and logical results of a therianthrope mating with their viable humaniod and animal mates?
Depends on the mother, in my estimation. Children born as wolves would mature as wolves- but might live a long time if their curse is triggered.How does one determine the aging from birth to maturity, middle age, and so forth for a natural therianthrope?
I kinda get into this a bit with the story I'm slowly putting up. But the end result of that mating is three magical beasts and one natural weretiger. This idea here is to really figure out a logical way to explain how their numbers would grow, since afflicted were-creatures can be cured, even if the cure is complicated.Cole Deschain wrote:I'd say it depends on the shape the shifter in question was wearing. If a male werewolf mates with a female wolf, the kids are going to be wolves. I would house-rule such offspring as being latent shapeshifters whose only alternate form is a bipedal hybrid, and whose bite carries a very tiny chance of transmitting the curse.
This thinking, while providing a good viewpoint, seems to imply though that therianthropes born with one animal parent would live shorter lives than those born of a humanoid parent, or even two therianthropes as parents. I don't think that sort of imbalance is the sort of thing you're going for with that idea, and I know it doesn't seem to flow well from my viewpoint either.Depends on the mother, in my estimation. Children born as wolves would mature as wolves- but might live a long time if their curse is triggered. Humanoids would age and mature as appropriate to their species.
Where did you get that idea?Tadelin wrote:This thinking, while providing a good viewpoint, seems to imply though that therianthropes born with one animal parent would live shorter lives than those born of a humanoid parent, or even two therianthropes as parents. I don't think that sort of imbalance is the sort of thing you're going for with that idea, and I know it doesn't seem to flow well from my viewpoint either.