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Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) Fifth Edition (5e) Monster - Werewolf - A werewolf is a savage predator. In its humanoid form, a werewolf has heightened sens...
A battle with a werewolf has two main phases. The first phase is stalking—the werewolf stalks its prey before striking from surprise. If the werewolf is hunting with a pack of wolves, dire wolves, winter wolves, worgs, or other werewolves, catching a group of adventurers unawares might lead to a devastating surprise round.
with two hands to make a melee attack.A werewolf is a savage predator that can appear as a humanoid, as a wolf, or in a terrifying hybrid form—a furred and well-muscled humanoid body topped by a ravening wolf’s head.Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered
Mainstream werewolf movies like "The Wolf Man" and "An American Werewolf in London" tend to depict the latter, but D&D adventures like Curse of Strahd feature families of wereravens who refer to themselves as “kindnesses,” and presumably pass their tendency to sprout feathers down each generation.
From page 206 of the Monster Manual: A remove curse spell can rid an afflicted lycanthrope of the curse, but a natural born lycanthrope can be freed of the curse only with a wish.
D&D 5e(2014) Werewolf Damage Immunities: bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons.(DM Basic Rules, p. 49) Some design features of D&D 5e. This edition tried to fold in some of each previous editions' features, which is related to some of the design goals for D&D 5e.
For the record, most or all werewolf stories prior to the aforementioned Universal films treat lycanthropy as something the werewolf acquires through a gift or curse by a higher (or lower) power, but it affects only the person in question and can't be passed to another (except in a few cases where the transformation is related to a specific ...
If the werewolf hits a living creature with its Bite attack, the target must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to 8 + the creature’s proficiency bonus + the creature’s Constitution modifier, or the creature’s spell save DC, whichever is higher. On a failed save, the target is cursed with werewolf lycanthropy.
If you sleep, the werewolf within you wakes and attacks your friends. Whenever the group tries to take a long rest, I interrupt the long rest and tell them that all the werewolf characters have become NPCs and are attacking the non-werewolf characters." and: "You don't get the damage immunity unless you are in werewolf form.
Werewolves are considered shapechangers in 5e and as such can use their ability freely within the restrictions of the daily limitations. The GM could simply allow the character to be placed under a curse, see the open variations that are allowed by the bestow curse spell, that has a persistent effect of being triggered by the light of a full moon.