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[Drapestar]

Not sure if anyone has seen one yet but i had a cyclops on my map and a wereloris has attacked it and left it unconscious with bite marks on my front gates. i decided to leave it alone and see if it will turn and it does. so i now have a cyclops that turns into a wereloris on my map.

no idea if any of the other megabeasts will take on a were curse but from that id have to assume so.

[PatrikLundell]

Definitely interesting!

Now, I think semi megabeasts are intelligent, while true megabeasts are not. I haven't heard of any regular animals turning into weres which ought to happen with a reasonable frequency if possible, so my guess is that only semi megabeasts can be affected.

[Fleeting Frames]

Weaponizing this, I guess semimegas would be more likely to withstand archery practice than other common targets. Usually, anything organic would be pretty temporary, but with timely regeneration it should take a bit of a while for them to lose their head, especially with increased muscle layers. Ettin would probably be best one, having two heads to reduce the effectiveness of headshots.

[They Got Leader]

Weaponizing this, I guess semimegas would be more likely to withstand archery practice than other common targets. Usually, anything organic would be pretty temporary, but with timely regeneration it should take a bit of a while for them to lose their head, especially with increased muscle layers. Ettin would probably be best one, having two heads to reduce the effectiveness of headshots.

Ladies and gentlemen; Dwarf Fortress. Where this is considered normal and within acceptable social boundaries.

[Fleeting Frames]

I just stared at it for a few minutes, wondering "how does this touch any moral boundaries? like, at all" before I realized I proposed torturing an intelligent, sentient being for a small eternity just so their kin would be bit quicker to die few months/20 minutes earlier than with harmless practice.

[TheBiggerFish]

Well this is interesting.

[Derro]

I just stared at it for a few minutes, wondering "how does this touch any moral boundaries? like, at all" before I realized I proposed torturing an intelligent, sentient being for a small eternity just so their kin would be bit quicker to die few months/20 minutes earlier than with harmless practice.

Depending on what the ettin's two brains mean for its sentience and ability to feel pain, it may actually be worse than torturing an intelligent being normally.

Also, it appears ettins are immortal.

[Fleeting Frames]

Perhaps. I looked at raws and ettins also have genders, so if you can get two ...you can probably get mommy to eat her babies. Damn. We wanted to shoot those babies.

Well this is interesting.

I found you again~

[Salmeuk]

I like the potential irony of waiting for the moon in order to kill a were-infected megabeast, since their were-form might be less powerful than their natural state.

Does anyone know if the were-transformation retains the native size of the creature, and just translates that size, or upon transformation does a were-mammoth'd dwarf explode in size, and a were-rabbit'd dwarf shrink?

A cyclops-sized were-donkey would not be pleasant to deal with.

[pisskop]

To clarify, you have a wereloris whose base form is a semi-megabeast.

[Fleeting Frames]

Nah, werebeasts change size. This is why werebeasts that are near dwarven size (iirc weregophers for instance) are most preferable to have for your army, as they'll keep their armor equipped.