High Weight
| High Weight | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Traits |
| Type | Occupation Trait |
| Effect | Reduced running speed, low endurance and prone to injury. |
| Skill Boosts | Fitness: +-1 |
| Conflicts | |
High Weight marks an overweight character with reduced running speed, low endurance and a body prone to injury. It lowers Fitness by one level and caps it at level 9.
It is a body weight trait. The game gives it when weight sits between 85 and 100. The Slow Metabolism trait also starts a character with it. Eating more calories than the body burns over time leads here.
High Weight Effects
Fitness drops by one level and stays capped at level 9. Running speed falls slightly.
Endurance drains about twice as fast while running. It recovers at about seven tenths of the usual speed. A long fight or chase leaves the character winded sooner.
Tripping becomes more likely. Vaulting a low fence while running carries a bigger risk of a fall. Lunging zombies knock the character down more easily.
Climbing is harder. Sheet Rope climbs are slower, and falls from tall fences are more likely.
Melee damage stays at its normal level. That gives High Weight an edge over the low weight traits, which cut damage.
High Weight Skill Boosts
High Weight adds these skill levels when the character is created.
| Skill | Levels |
|---|---|
| Fitness | +-1 |
High Weight Conflicting Traits
A character with High Weight cannot also take these traits.
| Name | Image | Points | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athletic | 
|
-10 | Positive Trait |
| Fit | 
|
-6 | Positive Trait |
| Emaciated | 
|
0 | Occupation Trait |
| Very Low Weight | 
|
0 | Occupation Trait |
| Low Weight | 
|
0 | Occupation Trait |
Picking High Weight
High Weight comes from body weight or from Slow Metabolism. It clashes with Athletic, Fit and the low weight traits.
The fix is steady weight loss. Eating less and letting the character get hungry or very hungry from time to time brings weight down. A normal weight can return in about ten to twenty days of light eating.
Weight above 100 turns it into Very High Weight, which is much worse.
Notes
- Appears at a weight between 85 and 100.
- Fitness drops one level and caps at level 9.
- Melee damage stays normal.
- Light eating for a couple of weeks brings weight back down.
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