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GoblinGilmartin
2010-10-22, 12:49 PM
Has anyone ever come up with rules for this? If a character is overweight, wouldnt the excess pounds cause certain weapons to do less damage? like padding? Bludgeoning weapons definitally... anyone?

Jane_Smith
2010-10-22, 12:50 PM
I beleive thats DR. Or one of its excuses for exsisting. Fat would cushion blows and keep piercing/slashing weapons from hitting vital points easier, etc. Almost sounds like DR anyway.

Eloel
2010-10-22, 12:51 PM
Has anyone ever come up with rules for this? If a character is overweight, wouldnt the excess pounds cause certain weapons to do less damage? like padding? Bludgeoning weapons definitally... anyone?
Less damage = DR.
Increasing AC makes you more likely to completely avoid the damage. The fatter you get, the easier you evade?!

Edit: Shadow Hand specialist there eh?

Admiral Squish
2010-10-22, 12:55 PM
And now I must make this.

Nanoblack
2010-10-22, 12:56 PM
There's willing deformity: obese, but that doesn't give any DR or bonuses to AC, instead it gives -2 to dexterity and +2 to constitution.

GoblinGilmartin
2010-10-22, 01:10 PM
Damage reduction, not AC bonus.... got it... but if someone could make a set of rules like this... that would be neat.

and... think about it. (i'm somewhat joking here) if you had giant rolls of fat, the weapon, or at least a small one, like a dagger would not even get deep enough to damage. hurt maybe, but not damage.

Ashtagon
2010-10-22, 01:39 PM
I'm in two mins on this.

On the one hand, although the extra rolls of fat will protect your internal organs somewhat, it's still "you", and a weapon strike that might have missed a thinner person will strike where the rolls of fat are. In effect, the extra fat makes you a bigger target = worse AC.

Otoh, there's at least one news report of a going whose life was saved from a knife attack by his rolls of fat cushioning a blow and preventing the weapon penetrating to his internal organs, and probably similar stories of fat protecting people in falls. But these are exceptional - that's why they make the news after all. Normally, they end up as injured as everyone else.

On balance, I'd just leave it as fluff.

Slug Bear
2010-10-22, 01:47 PM
There's a class called Disciple of the Seven Sins on DnD Wiki. The Gluttony path of the class lets you add your Constitution bonus to your AC (as natural armor).

Mulletmanalive
2010-10-23, 05:41 AM
Natural Armour does state that it includes protective blubber so there's no particular reason why it shouldn't be an AC bonus if you want it to. It has more of a net effect, if nothing else.

There is also a minor precident for DR in that Mongoose Publishing's Ultimate Prestige Classes has a class called the Bloated One [priest of gluttony] that has DR X/- and then gains "half damage" effects against first bludgeoning and then slashing.

Lev
2010-10-23, 07:14 AM
Weight technically should improve factors like bullrush, and things like nonlethal unarmed damage, but TBH being obese (around 250-275lbs) will not do anything vrs something like a mace.

You could make the argument that it could alter +1 flat (if bludgeoning) and -1 touch (size), but to be perfectly honest being unfit to that level-- I would consider putting that on a disease list-- not a trait list.

If you want some tangible minimal reality bonus?
Try this:
-10' to speed -2 to Con, +1HP Fat Pool per level.
+2 vrs bullrush, but take an additional -2AC when prone and when recovering from prone.
Whenever you are hit for nonlethal damage on your tubby bits you can apply your fat pool to negate that damage.