Iron Heroes - I have it in my hands!

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

I think the 'extra creepiness' factor is a side effect more than an intention; the recommendations are there to let them have their crutches (magical gear) without having them fall into the hands of IH classed characters.

Hmm, I gotta little bit of a beef with your delving into intentionallity there, but the main point for me wasn't so much the tatoos as it was how weird a character who pull off those sorts of stunts would be without the obvious crutch of items/everyone being able to do it as they went up in level.

It's like being the orc. Save you are a tremendous IH style badass ork. Scary but invigorating.