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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NealTS" data-source="post: 3982849" data-attributes="member: 38610">There's nothing like non-useful mutations to drive home the wrongness of the situation to the players. Like the dog that's just a writhing mass of fur and teeth, with misshapen limbs sticking out at bizarre angles. All it's able to do is drool and whimper pitifully. Of course it's not a challenge, but it might be worth some token role-playing xp for a swift mercy-killing.In terms of the less sympathetic and more scary, I still think there should be a handicap to it. If the animals are just bigger, faster, and stronger, that's not really chaos. That's just levelling up. The skin-dude from Pan's Labrynth comes immediately to mind. He wasn't just a big old monster. His difficult gait and inconvenient method of seeing made him weaker than he could have been, but all the scarier for it.Maybe something like birds of prey with jagged, stabbing bills but with one wing larger than the other, pulling them always to the side in flight. This results in them attacking by swooping around you in awkward circles as the wind whistles through the odd cracks in their beaks.Or a centaur-like creature that results from a knight being fused with his horse. His legs are gone, his torso juts out of the middle of his mount's back. The horse, mad from constant pain, pays no heed to its 'rider,' except to occasionally roll over and attempt to rid itself of him. The man is battered and broken, and, due to the horse's refusal to bring him within arm's reach of a decent meal, ravenously hungry. So you have a wild horse with arms that will attempt to grapple and eat any source of meat that draws too near.*shrug* Just some ideas.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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