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Ok, so this hit me while checking the new art from Dndeviants, and saw the Long Horn piece (www.deviantart.com/art/longhor…) and the first thing (as a Texan) to pop into my head was cowboys, then the opening to the criminally overlooked cartoon Cowboys of Moo Mesa began in my head, and now all I'm thinking about is playing a minotaur gunslinger that abides to uphold the law... and I have to admit, I kinda squeed.
With that being said, I am now absolutely intrigued by what anybody else has tried, those odd race and class mixes, may they be homebrewed or from the PHB, that resulted in an intriguing and/or ridiculous character that made you hyped to play them. I'm not talking about characters that you played, btw, and built up a wonderful tale of heroism and hilarity. I mean that character concept you made and from day one were jumping for joy to play.

So, I've been juggling this question around in my head, because it was something hinted at at the beginning of the campaign, but I am thinking of, if the situation plays out that way, for a soldier PC to be captured by a mercenary band and given to a main baddy who has been transforming kidnapped citizens into lycantropic monsters to sell as living weapons. Now, the premise is the character, Hoslyn, is trying to chase after her friend, who is being pursued by his own issues, and she is ambushed by a mercenary group that she used to work for (and essentially led to their dismemberment). She is infamous to mercenary group, and thus they try to take her out and sell her to the baddy, seeing that fate worse than death. Now, from what she chooses as far as which animal (which of course she won't realize she picks until she's cursed), she will have a different path to controlling her new form (i.e. werewolf leads to a path of revenge/forgiveness, werebear leads to acceptance/revulsion, etc.). Now, within the story, these are not the perfected, weakness-to-silver-only lycanthrope since they are being produced artificially, so I was thinking of treating it like raging, giving her resistance as well as a new form with different attacks. Now, obviously, she may not have full control over her new form, and may even sporadically change due to triggers, so I was thinking about 1) if this is a good, fun and realistic idea, 2) what sort of wisdom saving throw DC to use (maybe use the "spirit" of the lycanthrope to make opposing roles), and 3) what kind of triggers, if any, to use.