Reptile Men Lycanthropes

[David L Pulver]

Originally Posted by Shaira

Hi everyone,

So I was just writing out some stat blocks...

Let's take an NPC Reptile Man. ST 18, DX 10, IQ 10. According to the RAW he does 1d+3 bare-handed damage in melee, including his +2 damage bonus for reptile man claws. According to ITLp79, in HTH combat he does "double the HTH damage that a human of equivalent strength would".

So then I was looking at statting up a Reptile Man lycanthrope (a "were-dinosaur" - ITL p83). According to the write-up, a lycanthrope's ST doubles when in were-form. Our Were-Dinosaur has ST36, DX 7, IQ 6.

Cheers,

Sarah

This definitely looks like a bug resulting from the rules neglecting to consider the synergy of two different doubling cases.

An interesting option might be to instead of reading as "double and double again" to read each of them as +100%, so the end result is three rather than four times the damage....