Something More

A Therianthrope may be

A Curse or a Blessing

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d10 per Therianthrope level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10+ your Constitution Modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per Therianthrope level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: None
• Weapons: Simple Melee, and Light Crossbow
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
• Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, Stealth, and Survival

Quick Build

You can make a Therianthrope quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in Strength, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the outlander background. Lastly, pick the Inherited Origin and the Brute Form Subclass.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a spear or (b) two daggers
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) two handaxes
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• A spare set of traveler's clothes

Multiclassing

To multiclass into or out of the Therianthrope class, you must have 13 Dexterity, as well as either 13 Strength or Wisdom.

Therian Origin

Starting at 1st level, you choose your Therian Origin. You gain one of the following features of your choice.

Wereshape

Also at 1st level, you gain access to a transformation called a Wereshape. While using your Wereshape, the following rules apply.

• You can assume and exit your Wereshape as a bonus action on your turn.

• You gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet.

• Your type is Monstrosity, and you count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

• You can maintain your Wereshape for a number of hours equal to half your Therianthrope Level (rounded up).

• When you assume your Animal or Wereshape form, and also when you leave this transformation, you keep your current hit points. Dropping to 0 hit points causes you to immediately assume your normal form.

• Features and abilities gained from your race or other classes, such as the Barbarian's Rage feature, the Spellcasting feature, or the Tortle's Natural Armor are suppressed for the duration of your Wereshape. This does not include ASI, proficiencies or feats gained through those sources. Transforming breaks your concentration on spells.

• You can Wereshape a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier per long rest. Each use of your Wereshape thereafter inflicts 1 level of exhaustion.

• When you take damage from any source, reduce the amount taken by a number equal to half your Therianthrope level (rounded up). Damage from any silvered source cannot be reduced in this manner.

• While you are wearing no armor and not wielding a shield, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Strength or Wisdom modifier (whichever is higher).

• You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes.

• You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike, and it's damage is slashing. This die changes as you gain Therianthrope levels, as shown in the Ferocity Die column of the Therianthrope table.

• When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.

• You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in your space, or merges into your new form. Equipment that merges with the form has no effect until you exit Wereshape.

Beast Traits

At 2nd level, you gain two beast traits of your choice. Your beast trait options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain Therianthrope levels, you gain additional beast traits of your choice, as shown in the Beast Traits column of the Therianthrope table.

Feast

Starting at level 3, while in your Wereshape, you can use your action to make a special melee Bite attack against a creature within range. You are proficient with it, and you add your Strength modifier to its attack and damage rolls. Its damage is piercing, and its damage die is a d4. This die changes as you gain Therianthrope levels, as shown in the Ferocity Die column of the Therianthrope table. If the attack hits, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1) plus your Therianthrope level, and you can't use this attack again until you finish a short or long rest.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Feral Strikes

Beginning at 5th level, while in your Wereshape, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Apex Predator

Starting at 6th level, your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Enduring Form

At 7th level, your Therianthrope blood makes you immune to disease.

Grim Visage

Starting at 9th level, when you use your Wereshape feature, you can fill your enemies with desperate panic. Choose a number of creatures equal to your Proficiency Bonus within 120 feet that can hear and see you. These targets must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Dark Flight

Beginning at 10th level, your speed increases by 10 feet.

Wild Regeneration

At 14th level, while in your Wereshape, at the start of each of your turns, you regain a number of hit points equal to half your Therianthrope level (rounded down) if you have no more than half of your hit points left. You don’t gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points or if you took damage from a silvered source since the end of your last turn.

Sanguine Frenzy

You become a nigh-unstoppable killing machine.

At 20th level, when you reduce a creature to 0 hitpoints with an attack while in your Wereshape, you can make another attack against a creature within range.

Additionally, you can maintain Wereshape

indefinitely.

Fathom Dweller

Starting at level 1, you gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed. Additionally, your Wereshape gains the following benefits.

• You can can breathe both air and water.
• While underwater, your darkvision range extends to 120 feet.
• You are naturally adapted to cold climates, as described on page 110 of the DMG.

Abyssal Maw

At 6th level, when you successfully use your Feast feature, you can attempt to grapple the target with your powerful jaws. For this attempt, you may choose to treat your Savagery DC as your Strength (Athletics) result.

The target can attempt to free themselves using an action on it's turn to attempt a Athletics or Acrobatics check contested by your Savagery DC, ending the grappled condition on itself on a success.

Additionally, you treat grappled creatures as being two sizes smaller than you for the purposes of dragging.

Hunter in the Deeps

Beginning at 11th level, your Wereshape gains Blindsight out to a range of 30 feet while underwater.

Additionally, while in your Wereshape, you can make one attack as part of the Dash action.

Blood in the Water

At 17th level, while in your Wereshape, creatures which are grappled by you that don't have all of their hit points have disadvantage on checks to escape the Grappled condition.

Additionally, after using your Feast feature, you may immediately move up to your speed without triggering opportunity attacks.

Primal Anatomy

Starting at level 1, your movement speed increases by 10 feet. Additionally, while in your Wereshape, you gain the following:

• Advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks.

• As a bonus action, you may take the Search action.

Preternatural Being

At 6th level, gain one of the following features of your choice.

• Your hit point maximum increases by 12. Whenever you gain a level thereafter, your hit point maximum increases by an additional 2 hit points

• You gain a d4 frenzy die. Once per turn during your turn when you make a damage roll, you can add this frenzy die to the damage roll. If you dealt damage during your last turn, your frenzy die becomes a d6, increasing with each subsequent turn you deal damage by one step, from a d6 to a d8, then to a d10 and finally, up to a d12; if you did not deal damage during your last turn, it becomes a d4 once more.

Unrelenting

At 11th level, while in your Wereshape, you have advantage on Saves and Checks against effects that would reduce your movement speed or prevent you from moving, and you ignore non-magical difficult terrain.

Flesh-Ripper

At 17th level, while in your Wereshape, you can use your action to perform a special Rend attack targeting a creature of your choice within range. That creature must make a Dexterity saving throw vs your Savagery DC. On a failed save, the target takes 10d6 + 10 Slashing damage, or half as much on a success.

Removing the 'Curse'

Whether your Therianthrope considers themselves to be cursed or not, NPC's may seek to 'cleanse' you in one way or another. Speak with your DM to ensure that your progress in this class will not be destroyed by something like a Remove Curse spell without your pre-approval.

Scavenger

Beginning at 1st level, you gain one of following features of your choice.

• You gain a climb speed equal to your walking speed.
• You gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed, and you can can breathe both air and water.

Additionally, you gain the following benefits.

• You gain proficiency with martial ranged weapons, as well as weapons with the light or finesse property.
• You gain proficiency with shields, as well as light and medium armor.
• While in your Wereshape, you can use your ferocity die in place of your weapon die for melee attacks.
• When you transform into your Wereshape, you may choose to wear your equipment in the Wereshape.
• While in your Wereshape, worn equipment functions as normal, but the GM decides whether it is practical for the new form to wear a piece of equipment.

Slinking Shadow

Starting at 6th level, you can Hide as a bonus action on your turn.

In addition, any hit you score against a creature that is surprised is a critical hit.

Pack Tactics

Beginning at 11th level, while in your Wereshape, you have advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of your allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.

Swarm Lord

You've learned to call out openings in an opponent's guard to your pack, and coordinate with them to put your prey down.

At 17th level, as a bonus action, you point out a weakness in a creature's guard within 30 feet of you. Allies that can see the target and hear you have advantage on their attacks against that creature until the beginning of your next turn.

Aerial Build

Starting at level 1, while in your Wereshape, you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

Additionally, you can use your Wereshape feature as a reaction when you fall more than 10 feet.

If you are falling when you enter your Wereshape, you can soar to any location that is an amount of feet away from you equal to the total number of feet you have fallen.

Aerie

Starting at 6th level, you gain proficiency in the Survival skill. If you already have proficiency in the survival skill, add double your proficiency bonus to checks made using that skill.

Additionally, you can spend an hour while in your Wereshape gathering twigs, branches and small stones to form a nest. At your DM's discretion, other materials can also be used to construct this nest. It can fit a number of Medium sized or smaller creatures equal to your level. It provides full cover, and shelter from the elements. It has an AC equal to your Savagery DC, a number of hitpoints equal to five times your level and is immune to Psychic and Poison damage.

While constructing this nest, you may choose to create it with a trigger mechanism, which upon using your Action to interact with, will destroy the nest immediately. This may be a perfectly positioned twig or small stone, known only to you, that once removed causes the collapse of the structure.

Cut and Run

At 11th level, while in your Wereshape, when you hit with a melee attack against a creature, you don’t provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for the rest of the turn.

Harrier

Also at 11th level, while in your Wereshape, you can use the Attack action to make a Special melee attack targeting the creature's eyes, if it has them. If you’re able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw vs your Savagery DC. On a failure, you subject the target to the Blinded condition until the start of the target's next turn. You may use this special attack a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier per long rest.

Ruler of the Skies

Finally, at 17th level, while in your Wereshape, your flying speed increases by 20 feet.

Additionally, while in your Wereshape, if you hit a creature with the special attack granted by your Harrier feature, you can instead choose to reduce that creature's movement speed to 0 until the start of your next turn, so long as the targeted creature is no more than one size larger than you.

Ingrained Ferocity

Prerequisite: Level 5

You have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks and Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks.

Bestial Suffusion

Prerequisite: Level 12, Ingrained Ferocity

While in your Wereshape, you have advantage on all Strength Saving Throws and Dexterity Saving Throws.

Predator

You can see up to 1 mile away with no difficulty, able to discern even fine details as though looking at something no more than 100 feet away from you.

Additionally, you can not suffer disadvantage on checks to track creatures while in your Wereshape.

Terror in the Night

You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill. If you already have proficiency in Intimidation, choose another skill available to the Therianthrope class to gain proficiency in.

Additionally, while in your Wereshape, you add double your proficiency bonus to Intimidation checks.

Moon Beast

During the night, you can use your Wereshape feature one additional time before suffering exhaustion.

On the night of a full moon, while in your Wereshape, you can gain the effects of the 'haste' spell by using an action, without components or requiring concentration. You may choose to do this once per long rest.

Supernatural Reflexes

You gain advantage on Initiative checks while in your Wereshape.

Run with the Pack

While in your Wereshape, if an ally within 10 feet of you takes the Dash action, you can use your reaction to move up to your speed in the direction they were moving, so long as you end your movement within ten feet of the triggering ally.

Guided Madness

Prerequisite: Cursed Origin

When your Cursed Origin feature forces you to make a saving throw to maintain control, and you fail that saving throw, you instead move and attack the nearest hostile creature. If there is no creature within range after your movement, you also take the Dash action towards them.

Subdued Fury

Prerequisite: Level 5, Cursed Origin

When your Cursed Origin feature forces you to make a saving throw to maintain control, you add your Wisdom modifier twice.

Feint and Retreat

Prerequisite: Cunning Form

If a creature makes a melee attack against you and misses, you may use your reaction to immediately move up to half of your speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

Partial Shift

Prerequisite: Inherited Origin

You can concentrate your transformation onto a single body part as a bonus action to gain one of the following effects. These effects last until you are incapacitated, until you end them as a bonus action, or until you use your Wereshape feature. You cannot use Partial Shift while in your Wereshape.

At 5th level, you can choose two effects instead of one, and at 11th level, you can choose to gain all the effects listed.

• You can use your Ferocity Die for your unarmed strikes.
• You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
• You gain Darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have Darkvision, instead increase it's range by 30 feet.

Dire Form

Prerequisite: Gifted Origin

When you use your Wereshape feature to assume your Animal Form, you can choose to be Large size.

Ambush Hunter

You gain proficiency in the stealth skill. If you already have proficiency in Stealth, choose another skill available to the Therianthrope class to gain proficiency in.

While in your Wereshape, if you are in a lightly obscured area, you are treated as being heavily obscured.

Kindred Spirit

Prerequisite: Gifted Origin

At your DM's discretion, you can communicate with animals of approximately the same kind as your chosen form (including dire varieties): bats with bats, cats with felines, hawks and owls and ravens with birds, lizards and snakes with reptiles, monkeys with other simians, rats with rodents, toads with amphibians, and weasels with ermines and minks. Such communication is limited by the Intelligence of the conversing creatures.

Feral Surge

Prerequisite: Your base size is Small or smaller

You may choose to be size medium when you assume your Wereshape.

Weretiger by Jose Muñoz