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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.
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.
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