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[Pokon]

Has anyone actualy tested how much bigger ( or smaller) something is with different body modifers?
After all,  everyone wants bigger creatures, but how much effect does it have on combate with someone thats gaunt? If someones morbidly fat, how much bigger is he compared to the guy with hanging sacks of it?

[Azated]

I've never done any !!science!! on it myself, but I vaguely remember that if you burn fat off something it becomes practically invincible. I think that was a bug, but I've always assumed that the bigger something is, the slower it moves and easier it is to hit.

So a giant would have less chance to dodge and hit than a dwarf, whereas the dwarf would dodge and hit much more often.

Of course, a single hit from the giant would splatter the dwarfs brains all over his club, but that's beside the point.

[Evile]

If i am not mistaken invincibility from magma and heat only since they attack fat all the time.

For other damage fat is actually very good as it tends to diminish the damage caused to underlying tissues. And heal faster, than bones\nerves.

[acetech09]

I've heard reports of instances (and seen a few myself) where ungodly obese animals were practically invincible to a type of attic - one recent story of a hunter who spent days unloading bolts into a deer who wouldn't die due to his 'rolling lobes of fat'.

[Pokon]

I know, but I was wondering if anyone has done any !!science!! to see just how much those modifiers affect the size. I am asking due to my wish to create a dog that is both very small and very fat, and as such it would be interesting to know just how much they would make the animal.

[Funk]

i did do some !!science!!  on the fire side.
the main is fat melts with a lot of blood loss but it can be slowy burnt away with care.
haveing no fat does help vs heat as it takes a lot longer to burn the rest of the body.

[Trapezohedron]

The primary cause of death for melting fat is blood loss. Getting rid of those sacks of fat make you nigh invulnerable. (I've had cases where my character dies from melting/"died in the heat")

[thvaz]

This will supposedly be fixed in the next version, as Toady included proper burning damge.

[Funk]

even with out fat to melt, the rest of the body will take damage.

[Deon]

The problem with burning (going off the rails, thread!) is that the game considers the pain from the melting fat but does not consider the pain from burning skin/bones (because it requires an extreme amount of heat to burn them in DF) so if you have no fat, you do not bleed and feel almost no pain (and do not suffocate in smoke) which brings the said fire immunity.

[Roflcopter5000]

I really enjoy that someone says 'fat,' and the immediate response of the forum, regardless of context, is MELT IT OFF WITH MAGMA.