[DF] Faun Barbarian - Bessarion

[Gold & Appel Inc]

Originally Posted by Tymathee

The imagery is certainly pleasing to the mind, but game mechanically it's actually more crippling (in my opinion, and others as well). SM +1 is definitely for the Rule of Cool rather than practicality. I know I'm invoking the RoC a bit already with this character

Rule Of Cool wins out over practicality any day that ends with a Y when I run DF. :)

Originally Posted by Tymathee

but if we wanted higher SM, I'd suggest that the GM make SM +1 a [-25] Disadvantage. He's already has a hefty amount of Disadvantages though so I'd rather not layer it on even more heavily than it already is. :(

I've seen that thread before and won't rehash the pros and cons, except to point out that Gigantism also comes with Move +1, which is worth [5].