[quote=@Ellri]
It doesn't "need" a conflict like vampire/werewolf to work out, after all, you see movies with just one of the two succeed plenty of times, but mixing them together makes for an easy story setup. Throw humans into the middle, and you've got a triple conflict.

non-wolf weres would probably benefit if they got stories of their own without werewolves
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That's more the point I mean in that scenario. In a way it has become a staple of the genre, just as zombies have, but they're usually self contained to the three aspects all at conflict for one reason or another. Some series involve more, but not by much, others stick to one archetype. Most just seem to focus on that conflict rather than anything or everything else.

As for the other zoanthropes, getting traction by themselves, I would be curious to see if people would bite or if the interaction between this specific strain and the lycanthropic one would be a better idea; sort of building on the conflict found in the werewolf versus vampire archetype. Albeit it would be much harder to divide the two, let alone involve them well enough. Of course one can invent conflict, but I suppose it wouldn't feel "as natural" whereas it is with werewolves and vampires.