Corrupting force of Gluttony

Some places house corrupting evil artifacts or curses that corrupt the people who stray too near for too long. Sometimes those magics have a more gluttonous bent, twisting and infecting those within their reach into creatures of raw, unsustained fat and gluttony. Like more traditional means of corruption, this horrid magic sets in with sleep, when the mind is most vulnerable. The rules in this document govern the nature of these places, and allows wicked DMs to enforce these changes onto their players.

Corrupting Mechanics

If a character completes a long rest near a source of strong, gluttonous energies or corrupting magic, they must roll a Wisdom saving throw. The DC of the saving throw is outlined later in the document, and is dependent on the character's current Corruption level and proximity to the source of evil. On a failure, the character suffers 1 point of Corruption.

When a new tier of corruption is achieved (None to Mild, Mild to Moderate, Moderate to Severe), roll a d8 on the Corruption Effects Table below to determine the effect of that character's corruption. Corruption effects are cumulative with previous effects as higher tiers are achieved. Effects fade when enough corruption points have been cured to lower the character's tier of corruption (Severe to Moderate, Moderate to Mild, Mild to None). If a character reaches 12 or more Corruption points, the DM decides whether or not the character becomes a mindless pig, or goes insane and becomes an NPC under their control. A character with 12 or more corruption points cannot be restored to player control until they are brought below 12 corruption points.

Corruption can be cured naturally by resting away from any source of corruption, at a rate of 1 point per week of rest. Otherwise, a Lesser Restoration spell can cure 1 corruption point, and a Greater Restoration spell can cure 1d4 corruption points.

Situational trauma can lead the DM to tailor Corruption Effects to characters temporarily. Really twisted DMs can even customize particularly terrible creatures to afflict characters with Corruption Points with certain attacks, magical items that corrupt the user, or tomes that corrupt the reader when read. (Most of this passage taken -almost- verbatim with small edits from the Corruption document by Matthew Mercer)

Mild Corruption

Characters with mild corruption become less distasteful of fat and gluttony, feeling like being overweight isn't so bad. Eating whatever you like, whenever you like, never having to starve yourself, never worrying about your figure. These concepts start to become more appealing than they did before, and a character who already felt this way becomes even more confident in these views. The things that they might have worried about before; cleanliness, manners, concern for their physical state, start to become less important to them.

Moderate Corruption

Fat is attractive. Fat is sexy. Characters with Moderate Corruption aren't just okay with being overweight, they actively enjoy it. Being stuffed to the brim with food is satisfying, and watching themselves grow heavier and heavier is an almost sexually fulfilling experience. Their expressions of gas and their slovenly manners become something they take pride in rather than simply caring less about, and they start to feel the urge to spread corruption to others.

Severe Corruption

Must feed. Must grow. Must be fatter. Characters with Severe Corruption become almost single-minded in their drive to grow ever larger. Other objectives start to become less important as their goals to be as big and as full and fat as possible become their driving motivation. They have become irrevocable slobs at this point, their gas and slovenly lack of manners and concern for their appearance becomes even more severe, and even after recovering from corruption, there may be lasting ramifications. They actively want to spread this corruption at this point and seek out others to bring into the fold.

Mindless/Insane

Nothing drives these individuals but raw need to eat and grow. Mindless pigs that exist only eat, grow, and express their gas, or insane narcissists who care only about making themselves more beautiful, slovelny, and fat. There is nothing left in the hearts of these people but gluttony and slobdom.

New Shifter Subrace - Swampdweller

Swampdweller shifters are reclusive and mysterious, emitting an odorous stench that mysteriously smells appealing to those they wish it to, and completely disgusting to those they wish to repel. Their typical habitat grants them a hardy constitution, and they possess a natural charm that lulls people into underestimating their slovenly exterior.

Born of Corruption

Þyrs first spring into existence on any plane when generations of Orcs live under the shadow of a powerful corruptive force, as multiple cycles of beings born to those progressively more mired in the transformative powers of such energies exaggerate old traits and create new ones, permanently giving rise to a new race. Even centuries of generational cycles away from the source that initially transformed the species does not seem to revert the Þyr population back into more typical Orcs. Ironically, being naturally born of heavily corrupted environments means that Þyrs have an innate resistance to further corruption, even after generations of the new race have lived free of such places.

Headstrong, not mindless

The exaggerated nature of Þyrs often makes them seem wild, reckless, perhaps even heedless of danger. Exaggerated personalities are as common to a Þyr as exaggerated features, and often this makes them seem larger than life. Ultimately, however, Þyrs are as varied as any other sentient race, and their personalities run the same gamut as any orc's, simply with a higher prevalence for the boisterous and energetic.

Þyr Names

Þyrric names are often very similar if not identical to Orcish names, though the increased appetite, gluttony, and slobbishness native to their culture have had an impact on the common taken names and epithets Þyrs tend to earn from their community.

Any Orc and Half-Orc names are appropriate for the typical Þyr names, with the following additions made to the sample Epithets.

Þyr Epithets: Rum Guzzler, The Gassy, The Bottomless, Iron Gut, Fat Ass, Speed Eater, Bone Chewer, Death Fart, The Bloated

Þyr Traits

There are a number of racial traits common to Þyrs.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.

Age. Þyrs mature at the same rate as Orcs, but the magic affecting their bodies actually makes them live slightly longer, with most having a maximum lifespan around a century.

Alignment. The corrupting influence Þyrs are born from tends to lead to lowered inhibitions, causing most of them to lean towards chaos and impulsiveness, though some rebound hard from those natural inclinations and assume a life of rigid organization.

Size. Þyr are about the same size as Orcs, though they tend to be heavierset. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Aggressive Eater.(C) You can add your Strength modifier in addition to your Constitution modifier for Eating checks and to determine Stomach Capacity.

Corruption Resistant.(A) You have advantage on all saving throws made to resist gaining points of Corruption.

Keen Scent.(A) You have Advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

Powerful Gases.(C) Þyrs naturally have strong buildups of gas, and the natural magic in their bodies lets them augment this. You know the Noxious Burst cantrip. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the Noxious Wave spell once with this feature. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells. At the end of your turn in any stressful situation, such as combat, if your stomach is stuffed with pounds of food equal to twice its base capacity you must make a DC 13 Constitution save or automatically cast Noxious Wave if your use of this ability is available. If it is not, then if you fail the saving throw you instead cast Noxious Burst.

Wild Gluttons.(C) You have proficiency in the Eating skill, as well as one skill of your choice chosen from among Animal Handling, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Survival.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Orcish.

Goblin - Ravenous Eaters (Cultural)

The amount of food you can eat in a single Eating action is doubled.

Goliath - Stone Stomach (Ancestral)

You have resistance to damage caused by overeating.

Hobgoblin - Competetive Eating (Cultural)

Whenever you roll to stuff yourself, the amount you increase your stomach capacity by increases by 1 pound for each ally you can see wtithin 30 feet (to a maximum of +5).

Shifter - Bestial Capacity (Ancestral)

While shifted, your base stomach capacity is increased by an amount equal to your character level.

Tabaxi - Lazy Glutton (Cultural)

If you do not move on your turn, your can use your bonus action to instantly digest a number of pounds of food in your stomach up to your Proficiency bonus, adding them to your Diet points for the day and releasing a burst of gas that imposes disadvantage on attack rolls made by enemies within 5 feet of you until the start of your next turn. You can do this a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier, regaining expended uses at the end of a long rest.

Yuan-Ti Pureblood - Voracious Predator (Ancestral)

As an Action, you can force a character with less hit points than your Character Level + your Constitution modifier to make a Strength Saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). On a failure, you swallow them whole.

A creature you swallow in this way begins suffocating and is blinded, restrained, and incapacitated while in your stomach, and the creature contributes 1/10th of its weight for the purpose of determining your fullness. If you fall to 0 hit points while you have a creature in your stomach, it is neither restrained nor incapacitated and can exit your body using 5 feet of movement, ending the blindness. If a creature falls to 0 hit points in your stomach, they turn into into an amount of Fatty food equal to 1/10th their total weight. Any edible items are immediately consumed with the creature, and activate their effects on you. Any inedible items are coughed up on your next short or long rest.

Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

New Class: The Dark Knight

T ell me true, young warriors, what do you know of the legendary dark knights? Little? Then allow me to enlighten you. The dark knights are a rare and reclusive order of spellswords. Their practice of the arcane coupled with their martial prowess would make them terrifying on their own. But what truly makes the Dark Knight a fearsome foe is their influence. With their secret knowledge they bend their foes to their knees, crippling them with powerful magic that twists their will and corrupts their mind and body. When you face down a Dark Knight, it is not their physical or magical assault you should fear, but the worming their way into your mind and spirit. - An elder warns of the power of the Dark Knights.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d10 per dark knight level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per dark knight level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: All armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: none

• Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Eating, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

Defense

While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Dueling

When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

Great Weapon Fighting

When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

Slob

Whenever you take are hit with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to make a gaseous release, forcing the attacker to make a Constitution Saving Throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + Your Constitution or Strength modifier) or be poisoned until the end of your next turn.

Two-Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Spellbook

At 2nd level, you have put together a spellbook containing four 1st-level dark knight spells of your choice. Your spellbook is the repository of the dark knight spells you know, and generally functions in all the same fashions as a Wizard's spellbook.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Dark Knight table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your dark knight spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of dark knight spells that are available for you to cast. To do so, choose a number of dark knight spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + half your dark knight level, rounded down (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 5th-level dark knight, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 14, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell bane, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your dark knight spells, since you learn your spells through dedicated study and memorization. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a dark knight spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Occult Points

You have 2 occult points, and you gain more as you reach higher levels, as shown in the Occult Points column of the Dark Knight table. You can never have more occult points than shown on the table for your level. You regain all spent occult points when you finish a long rest. You can expend these points to use your Mystic Barrier feature as well as to use most of the Occult Powers you will learn as you gain levels in this class.

Mystic Barrier

You can expend any number of occult points as an Action to gain temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier + 1d6 for each occult point spent.

Occult Powers

You learn 2 Occult powers of your choice from the Occult Powers list later in this class description. As you gain levels in this class, you gain additional Occult powers at certain levels as shown in the Occult Powers Known column of the Dark Knight table.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the occult powers you know and replace it with another power that you could learn at that level.

If an Occult Power has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn the power at the same time that you meet its prerequisites. A level prerequisite refers to your level in this class. Some powers have Esoterica prerequisites, in which case you must have chosen the appropriate esoterica at level 3 in order to learn that power, along with meeting any other prerequisites.

Blighted

Those who undergo the study of the Blighted Esoterica seek to understand and control the powers that lie in toxicity, plague, and the corrupting epidemic of slovenly transformation.

Hypnotic Trance

Beginning at 3rd level when you choose this esoterica, the magic of your Interrogation ability also renders your target susceptible to hypnotic suggestions.

As an action, you can issue a hypnotic command, limited to a sentence or two, and influence a creature within 30 feet who is under your Interrogation that can see and understand you to follow it. The suggestion must be worded in such a way as to make the command sound reasonable. Asking the creature to perform some act that is obviously harmful to itself immediately ends the effect. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, they follow that command either until the task given is completed, or, for commands that do not involve a set duration, until you rescind the command or until they are no longer under your Interrogation.

You can also specify conditions that will trigger certain activities for the duration. For example, you might suggest that a victim stuffs themselves full at the first tavern they find. If the condition isn't met before the Inerrogation ends, the activity isn't performed.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency bonus, regaining expended uses at the end of a long rest.

When you have no uses left, you can expend 1 Occult Point to use this feature again.

Deep Trance

At 7th level, the power of your interrogation improves. The duration of your Interrogation ability increases to an hour. At 15th level this increases to a number of hours equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 2).

Additionally, if you have no more uses of your Interrogation ability remaining, you can expend 1 Occult Point to use it again.

Post-Hypnotic Suggestion

At 15th level, you can leave a lasting imprint on the minds of your victims. When you us your Hypnotic Trance ability, you can choose to treat the command as a Post-Hypnotic Suggestion. Doing so causes the target to make the Wisdom saving throw with advantage, but if they fail the saving throw, the suggestion lasts beyond the end of the Interrogation. It persists until the task is complete if it was a task with a set duration, or until lesser restoration or a similar spell is cast on them.

A creature can only have one Post-Hypnotic Suggestion from you active at a time, and if you attempt to give them another one, the first suggestion immediately ends.

Once a creature fails the saving throw against this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Autohypnosis

At 18th level, you can use your mastery of hypnotic suggestion on yourself in order to counteract the mental effects of others. You can make Wisdom saving throws with your Wisdom or Intelligence modifier, whichever is higher, though you still don't add your proficiency bonus unless you are proficient in Wisdom saving throws. Whenever you fail a saving throw against an Enchantment spell or similar effect (similar effect determined at the DM's discretion), you can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of your turns, ending the effect on yourself on a success, even if the spell would not normally allow you to do so.

Additionally, you can give yourself a number of Anti-hypnotic triggers up to your Intelligence modifier over the course of a long rest. For each of these triggers, determine a course of action to be undertaken should your mind be influenced by another power. Whenever you would start your turn while Charmed by another creature, you can choose to activate one of these triggers, taking the selected course of action for your turn instead of any other course that might be made under the influence of the charm. You may only use one of these triggers each turn, and when used, the trigger is expended and cannot be used again until your next long rest.

Mind Over Body

Beginning when you take this Esoterica at 3rd level, you can add half of your Intelligence score to either your Strength or Dexterity scores when determining your Bulk, Flex, or Inflation limits, and when determining your jump distance, and your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Additionally, you regain 1 expended occult point each time you roll a 20 on the d20 roll for an attack with your bonded weapon, or deal a killing blow with your bonded weapon to a creature of significant threat (DM’s discretion). When you do, you fatten for five times your Dark Knight level.

Lipomantic Barrier

Beginning at 7th level, any time a creature deals damage to you while you have Temporary Hit Points from your Mystic Barrier ability, they Fatten, Swell, Expand, Inflate, or Bloat (your choice) for twice the damage they dealt to you.

Additionally, while your Mystic Barrier is active, attacks that would make you eat food have disadvantage against you.

Occult Physiognomy

At 15th level, your occult practice has further improved your body to handle the excess of mass and size that following this path leads down. You gain the following benefits

• You can add your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1) in addition to your Constitution modifier for Eating checks and to determine Stomach Capacity.
• When you would gain or lose any amount of Fat, Muscle, or Inflation pressure, you can expend 1 occult point as a reaction to either halve or double the amount gained or lost (your choice).
• You can Expend 3 occult points as a bonus action to ignore the effects of being over your Bulk, Flex, or Inflation limit for up to a number of minutes equal to your Intelligence modifier (mminimum 1).

Vast Mysticism

At 18th level, your mastery of the vast esoterica allows you to improve your mastery of spells in the schools of lipomancy and its descendants. Whenever you cast a spell that would add or remove fat, muscle, or inflation pressure from a target, you can increase the amount added or removed by an amount equal to your Dark Knight level.

Carried Upon Our Shields

You can use your bonus action while carrying your bonded shield to place it in a space within 5 feet of you, causing it to hover off the ground and gain the properties of Tenser's Floating Disk, with the following modifications:

• The area of the plane of force can expand up to 20 feet in diameter or shrink back down to 3 feet at will on your turn without expending an action
• The plane of force can hold an amount of weight equal to 200 pounds per Dark Knight level you have.
• Rather than being immobile while you are within 20 feet of it, you can control the disk's movement, allowing you to use it as transportation if you are not too heavy for it, though you can only move it up to 30 feet per round this way.

This lasts until you use another bonus action to cause the shield to return to its normal state.

Corrupt Thoughts

You can expend 1 Occult point whenever you strike a creature with a weapon bonded with you by your Mystic Warrior feature, forcing them to make a Wisdom Saving throw against your Spell Save DC. On a failure, they gain a point of corruption and are either Charmed or Frightened by you until the end of your next turn.

Eyes of the Occult

Whenever you look at a creature you become aware of its current weight, how much of it is fat and how much is muscle, as well as how inflated they are. If you take an Action to focus on a creature, you can learn if it has any Bulk, Flex, or Inflation limits, and if so, what those are.

Gaseous Transposition

Prerequisite: 10th level, Blighted Esoterica

When you use your Occult Transposition ability, the area you teleport from and the area you teleport to are filled with gaseous emissions, which renders the area within 5 feet of both locations heavily obscured to everyone but you until the end of your turn.

Lipomantic Blades

Whenever you hit a target with your Bonded Weapon, you can spend a number of Occult Points up to your proficiency bonus. For each Occult Point spent, roll one of the weapon's damage dice again and add the result to the total damage dealt. Both you and the target fatten for twice the total damage dealt.

Metabolic Invigoration

Prerequisite: Vast Esoterica

You can choose to ignore any effect that would force you to sleep, and you can choose to take a long rest without needing to sleep, only spending all 8 hours doing light activity, such as keeping watch and reading. Whenever you choose to do so, you lose 2d10 pounds of fat or muscle.

Mystic Lightning

Prerequisite: 5th level

You learn the Flabshock cantrip, and it is considered a Dark Knight spell for you. When you cast it, however, you can choose to split the spell among multiple targets within range, dividing the total number of damage dice the spell deals as you choose among each target. Make a separate attack roll for each target chosen.

Occult Spellbinding

Whenever you cast a spell that deals damage, you can expend 1 Occult Point to imbue the spell with lipomantic binding properties. You fatten for ten times the spell's level, and any target damaged by the spell fattens for the same amount.

Primordial Speech

Prerequisite: 15th level

You can cast the Tongues spell at will, without expending a spell slot.

Sense Corruption

You can expend 1 Occult point to augment your senses for 1 minute. For the duration, you can sense the direction and distance of any sources of corruption within 1 mile, and can sense the exact location of any creatures with corruption points within 60 feet. Creatures you can sense this way cannot benefit from being hidden from you or from being invisible for the duration.

Simultaneous Interrogation

Prerequisite: 15th level, Deep Esoterica

You can have up to two targets under the effects of your Interrogation ability at the same time.

Suppress Corruption

You can touch a creature as an Action and expend 1 occult point to temporarily allow the creature to ignore the effects of corruption on it. This lasts until it completes a long rest.

Wealth of Knowledge

Whenever you make an Intelligence ability check and would not add your proficiency bonus to it, you can expend 1 Occult point to add your proficiency bonus.

Armor Trap

As an Action while wearing your bonded armor, you can cause your armor to animate itself and attempt to constrict an enemy of your size or smaller within 20 feet. The target must make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC. If they fail, your armor flies off of your body, causing you to lose the armor class it provides, and wraps around your target, knocking them prone, restraining them, and preventing them from performing verbal or somatic components of spells. They can use their Action on each of their turns to repeat the saving throw, breaking free of the armor on a success. This effect lasts until they break free, until you are no longer within 20 feet of the target, or until you recall your armor as a bonus action. In whichever case, the armor flies back to you and wraps itself around you, returning to its normal shape and granting you its armor class again.

Optional Class Features

You gain class features in the blood hunter class when you reach certain levels in it. This section offers additional features that you can gain as a blood hunter. Unlike the features in the core class, you don’t gain the features here automatically. Consulting with your DM, you decide whether to gain a feature in this section if you meet the level requirement noted in the feature’s description. These features can be selected separately from one another; you can use some, all, or none of them.

New Blood Hunter Order: Order of the Subversive

Sometimes the easiest way to hunt a beast is to tempt it into complacency first, to lull it into a false sense of security, to make it underestimate you. When an enemy believes taht you are incapable of posing a threat and that you exist to serve them, thet is when you can strike most fatally. The order of the subversive makes this their modus operandi; to ingratiate themselves to their enemies or make them think that they are weak and slovenly, only to strike when the enemy least expects their retaliation. To augment this approach, they have learned some ancient arts from practitioners of corruptive magics, and can slowly twist their targets into the slovenly beings they think their hunters to be.

Blood Curse of Lethargy

Prerequisite: 11th level, Order of the Subversive

As a bonus action, you force a creature within 30 feet of you that you can see to make a Charisma Saving throw. If the target is currently being affected by your Feign Subservience feature, they make the Saving throw with Disadvantage. On a failure, the target becomes indifferent about creatures of your choice that it is hostile toward until the end of your next turn. This indifference ends if the target is attacked or harmed by any of the creatures you chose. While under this effect, the creature is considered Bloated.

Amplify. This curse lasts for 1 minute. At the end of each of its turns, the cursed creature can make a Charisma saving throw. On a success, this curse ends.

Corruption Domain

To corrupt. To change something, in small, miniscule increments, into something almost unrecognizable as its original form. The act itself is neither evil nor good, merely a changing and a twisting from something's original purpose to a new one of the corruptor's design. Though many Clerics of the Corruption domain are evil, twisting others and turning them to their own dark designs, just as many simply revel in the act of change, in the freedom from what once was. The most common form of corruption is that made so well-known by the Cleric Queen Letidýra and her holy nation of Gallia. The corruption of the strong, the proud, the rebellious, into the fat, slovenly, and subservient. This form of corruption, which turns one's enemies into slobbish, eager gluttons and servants is now synonymous with the corruption domain and all it stands for.

Optional Class Features

You gain class features in the Player’s Handbook when you reach certain levels in your class. This section offers additional features that you can gain as a fighter. Unlike the features in the Player’s Handbook, you don’t gain the features here automatically. Consulting with your DM, you decide whether to gain a feature in this section if you meet the level requirement noted in the feature’s description. These features can be selected separately from one another; you can use some, all, or none of them.

Way of the Tempter

This art is one of the secretive orders of the Fleshbound. It is said that those of the way of the Tempter were the ones who truly began the revolution that freed the Fleshbound from servitude. Taught by the more radical Lipomancers to undermine their more scrupulous rivals, the Tempters excel in drawing others into the slothful indolence that they exhude.