Van Richten's Guide to Werebeasts
Author: Nigel Findley
Type: Accessory – monster (werebeasts)
Format: 96 pages paperback
Release date: August 1993
Other notes: This book was to see reprint in 1999 as a part of the Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium Volume 1 (with little expansion in this re-edition).
Summary of content:
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Introduction
- An overview of lycanthropy (hereditary, pathologic, maledictive)
- Biological survey (vulnerabilities, transformation mechanics, diet
- Psychological survey (moral and ethical outlook, societies)
- Pathologic scourge (phenotypes, triggers, cure)
- On the hunt (identification, hunt) DM Appendix: werejaguar, werebadger
Reviews:
Joël Paquin
While I loved the psychological discussion about werecreatures, I am not that fond of this guide. It doesn’t really expand what we already read in the monster manuals. Too much filler …
I’m a fan of werecreatures, I think they are cool, but I have few good ideas on how to use them in a campaign, other then the classic ‘there’s a bunch of gruesome murders, let’s find the animal that does it’. The book doesn’t give many ideas, IMHO.
Not to be avoided, but not to be hunted frenetically either. 2,5 on 5.
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