The Shrinks (3.5e Disease)
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| Infection: | Injury |
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| DC: | 16 |
| Incubation : | 3 days |
| Damage : | Special |
| “ | “You've got the shrinks!” cried Mr. Twit, pointing his finger at [Mrs. Twit] like a pistol. “You’ve got them badly! You’ve got the most terrible case of shrinks I’ve ever seen!” Mrs. Twit became so frightened she began to dribble. But Mr. Twit, still remembering the worms in his spaghetti, didn’t feel sorry for her at all. “I suppose you know what happens to you when you get the shrinks?” he said. |
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| —Roald Dahl, “The Twits” | ||
A disease that is slow to begin, but quick to progress once it has started. The Shrinks is not contagious, but it is still deadly. It only happens to those whose bodies are compressed in an unnatural position for a long period of time. The means of compression can vary, from being stuck under a rock to simple bone fragility to being fastened to the floor in a handstand; it only requires the body's weight to be distributed so poorly that it offends the laws of physics. Once several days have passed without the body being positioned more properly, its structural support begins to fail, causing it to gradually collapse in on itself.
Better Disease Implementation (3.5e Variant Rule)[edit]
| The Shrinks | Injury, 8 hours cycle | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Your body's mass is collapsing upon itself; you are gradually shrinking away to nothing. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| You are cured. | ⇐ | You lose 5 feet to all extraordinary movement speeds and take a −4 penalty to Climb and Swim checks. | ⇔ | Your reach is reduced by 5 feet and you lose 5 more feet to all extraordinary movement speeds. | ⇔ | You take a −4 penalty to Strength and Constitution. | ⇔ | Your size category is reduced by 1.1 | ⇔ | Up to x stages, each with no new effects past stage 3 (to a max of x = victim's initial size category). | ⇔ | (Stage x+1) Your body has completely collapsed into nonexistence. | ||||||||
Stage 1:
Your limbs are getting shorter.
Your arms and legs are shorter, making it more difficult to move. You lose 5 feet to all movement speeds reliant on physical locomotion, to a minimum of 5 feet (propelling yourself through space through purely supernatural means, such as the fly spell, is not impeded). You also take a −4 penalty to Climb and Swim checks.
Stage 2:
Your limbs have gotten still shorter, and your torso is a bit smaller, too.
Your arms and legs have gotten even shorter, causing you to lose 5 feet of natural reach (to a minimum of 0) and 10 feet to all movement speeds reliant on physical locomotion (to a minimum of 5 feet) (propelling yourself through space through purely supernatural means, such as the fly spell, is not impeded). The penalty to movement speed replaces the penalty from stage 1; they do not stack.
Stage 3:
Your body has begun to cave in on itself.
Your body has started to collapse and wither, causing you to take a −4 penalty to Strength and Constitution. These penalties can reduce your ability scores to 0; if either is reduced to 0, your body immediately collapses into nonexistence, as stage x+1.
Stage 4:
Your body is starting to implode.
Your size category is reduced by 1 step2 per disease stage after 4. (At stage 4, it is reduced by 1. If your size category was Fine to begin with, skip directly to Stage x+1.)
Stage 5+:
Your body continues to implode.
Up to x stages3, each with no new effects past stage 4. Your size can be reduced to a minimum of Fine. (If your size category was Dimunutive to begin with (Fine at stage 4), slip directly to Stage x+1.)
Stage x+1:
Your body has completely imploded. All that remains of you is your empty skin.
You are dead. You cannot be revived by any methods that require a mostly intact corpse.
- In terms of treating size categories as a numerical value: Fine is 1, Diminutive is 2, Tiny is 3, Small is 4, Medium is 5, Large is 6, Huge is 7, Gargantuan is 8, and Colossal is 9.
- This size category reduction increases and decreases with the progression of the disease.
- Unlike other diseases, The Shrinks does not have a fixed set of stages. Instead, it has up to x+1 stages, where x is equal to the size category of the victim, and each stage has no new effect after stage 4 (other than increasing the effects of stage 4) until stage x+1.
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