Lycanthropy Races

Important Note

These homebrew race stats are not here to recommend or suggest you should play these races. Were-beasts are mostly abnormal and hated in many places, so playing were-races are here just if you have a specific idea spurred by the world info above. Many if not all of these races may result in instant hostilities by NPCs. Talk to me first if you are interested in playing a lycanthrope.

Werewolf:

Hidden killers Many infected with Werewolf Lycanthropy, especially newly infected, aren’t immediately taken over by the curse. Many are unaware of their new curse, until they eventually shift into their curse when unconscious. After each shift, their personality becomes more and more vicious and aggressive, until they eventually merge into a true Werewolf and take up their hybrid wolf form.
Ability Score Increase Your Strength Score increases by 2, and your Dexterity Score increases by 2, and Constitution Score increases by 1
Age Werewolves live in the same age ranges as their original race from before they were cursed, however they age slightly slower than their original race. A 30 year old human cursed as a Werewolf will still look 30, except they will live more years than they would have non-cursed.
Alignment Werewolves are cursed to be more naturally chaotic evil. Any alignment of people cursed with Lycanthropy will slowly see themselves turning more and more evil until they lack empathy entirely.
Size Werewolves stay about the same size as they were before they were cursed, only growing inches in size usually. Your size is Medium.
Speed Your base walking speed is 35 feet.
Darkvision Your curse has improved your senses, giving you darkvision out to 120 ft. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Savage Attacks When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.
Wolf Form You can transform your human form into a hybrid wolf-human form or a full direwolf. The exact terms and function of your transformation is up to you to decide. Talk with me directly to make the exact rules of your transformation. Are you trying to resist hunger, transforming against your will at night, or are you slowly accepting your curse and transforming into a wolf permanently.

Wererabbit:

Ability Score Increase Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and one other ability score of your choice increases by 1.
Age Wererabbits live shorter, faster lives than most humanoid races, maturing at around 16 years, and live about 65 years old.
Size Wererabbits are usually tall and slender, ranging from around 5-7 ft tall. Your size is medium.
Speed Your base walking speed is 35 feet.
Darkvision Your Lycanthrope blood does improve your senses. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Jump Start You can add your proficiency bonus to your initiative rolls
A Hare’s Escape Enemies have disadvantage on opportunity attacks against you.

Wereraven:

Ability Score Increase Your Intelligence score increases by 2, and Dexterity Score increases by 1.
Age Wereravens live in the same age ranges as their original race from before they were cursed, however they physically age slightly slower than their original race.
Alignment Wereravens are cursed to be more naturally lawful evil. Any alignment of people cursed with Lycanthropy will slowly see themselves turning more and more greedy.
Size Wereravens are about human sized, but naturally hunched over. They are about 5 ft tall on average. Your size is medium.
Speed Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Momentary Flight You have a fly speed equal to your walking speed, but cannot stay airborne while not moving. If you do, you will immediately fall at the end of your turn.
Darkvision Your Lycanthrope blood does improve your senses. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Improved Memory Your Lycanthropy has greatly improved your memory, You can accurately recall anything you have seen or heard within the past month.
Raven Form You can transform your hybrid bird-human form into a full raven form. As an action, you can transform your form into a raven form. You gain the physical characteristics of a raven and lose access to your own features. You keep your health total in your raven form. You can change back into your hybrid form as an action.

Wererat:

Ability Score Increase Your Dexterity Score increases by 2, your Constitution Score increases by 1, and your Charisma Score increases by 1.
Age Wererats live in the same age ranges as their original race from before they were cursed, however they age slightly slower than their original race. A 30 year old human cursed as a Wererat will still look 30, except they will live more years than they would have non-cursed.
Alignment Wererats are communal in nature, but usually keep a similar alignment to how they were before being cursed, while moving to more neutral.
Size Werewolves stay about the same size as they were before they were cursed, only shrinking a few inches over the years. Older Wererats tend to be smaller than newer ones. Your size is Medium.
Speed Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision Your curse has improved your senses, giving you darkvision out to 120 ft. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Claws Your curse morphs your hands with claws. You are proficient with unarmed strikes, and your unarmed strikes have a d4 damage die.
Rat Form You can transform your hybrid rat-human form into a full rat form. As an action, you can transform your form into a rat form. You gain the physical characteristics of a rat and lose access to your own features. You keep your health total in your rat form. You can change back into your hybrid form as an action.