Bestow Curse should make people fat until they get a remove curse. Grotesque appearance and fat is a common "Curse" that people would bestow upon people in many fairytale stories.
On the whole though I think it would be neat if Bestow Curse could be sorted out like how Polymorph Self has various shapes. A list of various uncouth and laborous curses that people would have upon them instead of the traditional "-stats, saves, etc" of standard Bestow Curse.
I think it shouldn't be the only effect although.
Or make it random upon a list of possible things or make it possible to choose between. Other options:
- flies
- glowing body
- lack of a limb
- sensibility to light
- ugliness
- big nose
- clumsiness: can't climb decently and got horrible tumble. They're knocked down from time to time, randomly
- and so on.
QuoteBeauty: Your curse is lifted! -But you're still fat...
Beast: Yeah, I was fat before the curse.
I imagine it wouldn't just make people fat, but also remove some of their charisma.
I agree with this but not for the same reason! I think the "lawl, fat phenotype" thing's played out and seems to only be used for "humorous effect" against female PCs.
However, I do think bestow curse should be able to be set somehow IG, and the crafting menu would be a great place to do it. Being limited to the generic small penalty to stats option is kind of boring compared to what we could do with this.
Even a system where we could curse a specific stat by a larger amount would be more interesting than the default!
Also, making someone fat seems like it'd be more of Baleful Polymorph effect, RwG!
You may be charismatic being fat... I would remove something else, like discipline.
Curse of flies! Yes! Yessssss!
Quote from: granny;410388You may be charismatic being fat... I would remove something else, like discipline.
Fat because they lack discipline.
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