Brood of the Purple Moon

DeepShadow of FoS · Post by **DeepShadow of FoS** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:33 am

What werebeasts are part of the brood? It says in Gaz4 that they are all temperate forest critters, so that would be bears and...what? Tigers are tropical, rats are urban, so that leaves...ravens? It's described as being a loose assocation of many different phenotypes, so I'm looking for more animal phenotypes that would be appropriate for the group.

Ronia Sun · Post by **Ronia Sun** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:37 am

Werefoxes (perhaps a different type than the all female, all vicious silver ones?)? Wereboars? (Bears and pigs are related, after all).

(Tries desperately to think of other forest creatures)

Were....elk? :p

lostboy · Post by **lostboy** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:49 am

Werebadgers (cause the little git in Sithicus cant be the only one)

Gonzoron of the FoS · Post by **Gonzoron of the FoS** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:57 am

according to this:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/b ... #temperate

typical temperate forest fauna include:
squirrels, rabbits, skunks, birds, deer, mountain lion, bobcat, timber wolf, fox, and black bear.

so, looks like werewolf, werefox, werebear, wereraven, werepanther (mountain lion coloring) and maybe some homebrew werebobcat.

Though that page lists them as tropical, I have seen small bats in temperate forests, so werebat is not out of the question either.

Zettaijin · Post by **Zettaijin** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:32 am

The possibility of Weresquirrels is a frightening one indeed...

Georg Kristianokov · Post by **Georg Kristianokov** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:20 pm

Zettaijin wrote:The possibility of Weresquirrels is a frightening one indeed...

Beware the were-moose!!!!

High Priest Mikhal · Post by **High Priest Mikhal** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:35 pm

Odd lycanthropy phenotypes. That would make a very interesting thread. Like the wereduck.

Isabella · Post by **Isabella** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:47 pm

I think they put in the "carnivores only" rule to nip the "Moose bit my sister" thing in the bud.

Archedius · Post by **Archedius** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:01 pm

You can have wererats as part of the Brood as rats do live in forests as well as urban areas although you could tweak them to reflect this background.

Werecoyote is homebrewable and appropriate. I'd also argue that weretigers are possible to use as they used to range in temperate zones before humans hunted them to near extinction.

(Side note- you can use weretigers in the frozen reaches as they can and do live in the frozen forests of eastern Russia)

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:15 pm

Isabella wrote:I think they put in the "carnivores only" rule to nip the "Moose bit my sister" thing in the bud.

Ha! My friend Rob used a were-moose in a RL game. Of course, one call lightning spell later, he regreted introducing said were-moose on a a''dark and stormy night.'' Yeah, spells happen!

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:16 pm

I've seen good AD&D 2E stats on were-mustelids of various sorts [weasels, minks, etc].

LouisVendredi · Post by **LouisVendredi** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:59 pm

The possibility of Weresquirrels is a frightening one indeed...

Done it.

DeepShadow of FoS · Post by **DeepShadow of FoS** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:52 pm

Aright, I've brainstormed and I'm going to add the weresnake from CotN and the wereglutton from BoS. Snake, boar, bear, bat, wolverine, panther, badger and rat. Sounds good to me!

Zettaijin · Post by **Zettaijin** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:28 pm

I don't feel like looking it up, but what about all those zany 1st ed. amalgam monsters like the duckbunny? A were duck bunny sounds pretty damn cool.

And how about a wereowl? We already have Wereravens, why not wereowls?

Zettaijin · Post by **Zettaijin** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:18 pm

LouisVendredi wrote:
The possibility of Weresquirrels is a frightening one indeed...
Done it.

I see that now...

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