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Old 12-05-2017, 10:40 PM   #41
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Default Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the week: Bestial

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Bestial is mostly an NPC/creature disad, I’m sure. I imagine that plenty of people have never written it on a character sheet, but have used it implicitly countless times when GM’ing. Any time you play a wild animal encounter vaguely correctly, you’re playing out Bestial, whether it’s written down or not.

By which logic, it’s in the rulebooks mostly for completeness and to allow animal companions to be statted out.
It is also useful in creatures with a wereself alternate.
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Old 12-06-2017, 03:31 AM   #42
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It is also useful in creatures with a wereself alternate.
True. It's a tag for your alternate form that says "When you change to this form, you just cannot function in human society. Don't bother trying."

An example of a were who doesn't have Bestial in animal form, but who probably bought it off and retains some quirk-level tendencies that way, would be Angua in the Discworld Watch stories. She's described as forever fighting the inclination to take simple (and probably bloody) approaches to situations, though she's still around human intelligence in wolf form. And of course her family aren't so nice.
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Old 12-28-2017, 07:53 AM   #43
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Piramyd 89 have the Hengeyokai template for DF that have bestial
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