Werecreature

@ wererat (human)
Difficulty	3
Attacks	Weapon 2d4

@ wererat (human)
Difficulty	3
Attacks	Weapon 2d4
Base level	2
Base experience	22
Speed	12
Base AC	10
Base MR	10
Alignment	-7 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	Very rare
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	400
Size	Medium
Resistances	Poison
Resistances conveyed	Lycanthropy
A human wererat: has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. regenerates HP quickly. is poisonous to eat. is omnivorous. is not a valid polymorphable form. can change between human and animal forms. is a human. is normally generated hostile. can pick up weapons and food.
Reference	monst.c#line2285

r wererat (animal)
Difficulty	4
Attacks	Bite 1d4 lycanthropy, Summon friends

r wererat (animal)
Difficulty	4
Attacks	Bite 1d4 lycanthropy, Summon friends
Base level	2
Base experience	17
Speed	12
Base AC	6
Base MR	10
Alignment	-7 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	Always starts in human form
Genocidable	yes
Weight	40
Nutritional value	30
Size	Tiny
Resistances	Poison
Resistances conveyed	Lycanthropy
An animal wererat: has no hands. regenerates HP quickly. is poisonous to eat. is carnivorous. is not a valid polymorphable form. can change between human and animal forms. is normally generated hostile. can be seen through infravision.

@ werejackal (human)
Difficulty	3
Attacks	Weapon 2d4

@ werejackal (human)
Difficulty	3
Attacks	Weapon 2d4
Base level	2
Base experience	22
Speed	12
Base AC	10
Base MR	10
Alignment	-7 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	Very rare
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	400
Size	Medium
Resistances	Poison
Resistances conveyed	Lycanthropy
A human werejackal: has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. regenerates HP quickly. is poisonous to eat. is omnivorous. is not a valid polymorphable form. can change between human and animal forms. is a human. is normally generated hostile. can pick up weapons and food.
Reference	monst.c#line2293

d werejackal (animal)
Difficulty	4
Attacks	Bite 1d4 lycanthropy, Summon friends

d werejackal (animal)
Difficulty	4
Attacks	Bite 1d4 lycanthropy, Summon friends
Base level	2
Base experience	17
Speed	12
Base AC	7
Base MR	10
Alignment	-7 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	Always starts in human form
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	300
Nutritional value	250
Size	Small
Resistances	Poison
Resistances conveyed	Lycanthropy
An animal werejackal: has no hands. regenerates HP quickly. is poisonous to eat. is carnivorous. is not a valid polymorphable form. can change between human and animal forms. is normally generated hostile. can be seen through infravision.
Reference	monst.c#line219

@ werewolf (human)
Difficulty	6
Attacks	Weapon 2d4

@ werewolf (human)
Difficulty	6
Attacks	Weapon 2d4
Base level	5
Base experience	61
Speed	12
Base AC	10
Base MR	20
Alignment	-7 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	1 (Very rare)
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	400
Size	Medium
Resistances	Poison
Resistances conveyed	Lycanthropy
A human werewolf: has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. regenerates HP quickly. is poisonous to eat. is omnivorous. is not a valid polymorphable form. can change between human and animal forms. is a human. is normally generated hostile. can pick up weapons and food.
Reference	monst.c#line2301

d werewolf (animal)
Difficulty	7
Attacks	Bite 2d6 lycanthropy, Summon friends

d werewolf (animal)
Difficulty	7
Attacks	Bite 2d6 lycanthropy, Summon friends
Base level	5
Base experience	56
Speed	12
Base AC	4
Base MR	20
Alignment	-7 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	Always starts in human form
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	500
Nutritional value	250
Size	Medium
Resistances	Poison
Resistances conveyed	Lycanthropy
An animal werewolf: has no hands. regenerates HP quickly. is poisonous to eat. is carnivorous. is not a valid polymorphable form. can change between human and animal forms. is normally generated hostile. can be seen through infravision.
Reference	monst.c#line261

Werecreature is the collective name for wererats, werejackals, and werewolves, a group of monsters which change back and forth between animal and human form. While in animal form, they can bite you which has a chance of conferring lycanthropy (indicated by the message "You feel feverish."). Lycanthropy is the name for the condition that makes monsters change form. You will become the same kind of creature as the one that infected (ie. If infected by a werejackal, you will become a werejackal).

Werecreatures can summom their brethren for help (rats, jackals and any type of wolf, respectively). If you are a werecreature, you can do the same with the #monster command. The summoned monsters appear as pets and will remain tame if your lycanthropy is cured.

Werecreatures are immune to level drain and will respect Elbereth while in animal form.

Werecreatures are considered human for the purposes of [[[sacrificing]].

Strategy

While most of the time, lycanthropy is burdensome (

Unless you don't want more pets, you may want to summon help (#monster) before praying for removal of your affliction.

Praying can reverse the effects of lycanthropy. Lycanthropy can also be cured by eating a sprig of wolfsbane or quaffing holy water.

Encyclopedia entry

In 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting
the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a
were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province,
"notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase."
The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins,
halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the
said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to
take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other
penalty."  The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may
judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following
year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who
ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little
children, "even on Friday."  The poor lycanthrope, it appears,
had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French
pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from
eating infants on a fast day.
        [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ]