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Wolves (or werewolves) in your campaigns?

Started by Spinachcat, May 21, 2021, 02:26:58 AM

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BoxCrayonTales

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May 24, 2021, 02:44:27 PM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 24, 2021, 02:17:19 PM
Quote from: hedgehobbit on May 24, 2021, 01:21:22 PM
Quote from: Pat on May 21, 2021, 02:05:05 PMThe Beast of Gevaudan is a real life incident. Other major incidents include the wolves of Paris, Périgord, Kirov, and Ashta. They were often exceptional circumstances, like extremely long winters or wars when all the men were away, but it happened enough that no other animal in Europe has such a legendary aura of terror, exemplified in all the werewolf legends.

This is one of the things that always bothered me. In a world with Dragons, Giants, and Chimeras roaming around, would those people be scared of a wolves? Or just treat them as a nuisance. (same goes for lions and other animal associated with nobility).

I imagine fantastical beasts would be pretty rare. Wolves would be a more common threat. And there are worgs/dire wolves, to add some 'beefy' wolf menaces.
From an epistemological POV, "fantastical" wouldn't be a thing in fantasy worlds. Fantastical creatures would be mundane. For instance, real bestiaries thought of these creatures as perfectly normal parts of ecology. (Although medieval writers had a poor understanding of ecology, but I digress.)

Where does one draw the line? Rarity alone? Effect on the environment? Uniqueness? Was there a mythic past where monsters were far more common?

kosmos1214

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May 26, 2021, 01:06:02 PM
To my mind of thinking the standard wolf /werewolf encounters are important they do a great deal to set the tone of the game and setting.
Weather its the 1st encounter the pcs run from In a thick forest or that simple moment of horrer as the farmer looses control and changes under the light of the moon .
These encounter say even thing you think you know things you think you have seen can scarry and a bigger threat then you can handle in your spiffy armor and sharp sword.
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