Editing Werejaguar (section)

==Generic==
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The "generic" D&D werejaguar debuted in the Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume One; supposedly, it was based on the earlier Ravenloft werejaguar, but there are sharp differences between the two - most notedly, this breed of werejaguars is notedly malevolent, which is not the case with their counterparts from the [[Demiplane of Dread]].

The generic werejaguar is a human or demihuman capable of assuming three forms; its humanoid form (which may have sandy blonde hair streaked with black, or vice-versa); a large jaguar perhaps 7 feet long from nose to rump; and an anthropomorphic hybrid animal form: broad snout, blackmarked sandy pelt, wide paws that retain opposable thumbs, and a long, expressive tail. These werejaguars fear only the touch of enchanted blades or weapons made from obsidian, and are fatally susceptible to mercury poisoning.

These werejaguars have a distinct prefernece for life in the wilderness, where they live either alone or in temporary family groups consisting of a mated pair rearing their one or two cubs; like the animals they resemble, werejaguars don't marry, though they do tend to have preferred mates that they will usually go for first. Females tend to only mate with other werejaguars, but males are far less picky, often seducing as many humanoid women of compatible nature as they can and then hightailing it out of there before the women learn they've fallen pregnant with monstrous offspring. That said, some werejaguars enjoy living in villages or small towns, but they are commonly uncomfortable in larger settlements (towns with a population of over 100, for example). Bearing this loose limitation in mind, they frequently prove very adept at infiltrating human society. In town, werejaguars can easily set aside their solitary tendencies and cooperate with others for as long as necessary. However, a werejaguar who has infiltrated human society will increasingly yearn to seek out an isolated area in which to relax and be alone.

Like many werebeasts with an actively predatory alternate form, werejaguars are pure carnivores, and they subsist only on freshly killed meat. Though they can subsist on animal flesh just fine, generic werejaguars ''prefer'' the flesh of sapient creatures - a marked difference to their Ravenloftian counterparts.