Recdently I tested some robes for someone who I will not mention (if they want to tell the world that is their business not mine) . The way they worked set me to thinking. It seems to me that there is a large untapped potential with the way that robes work. Before I continue, bear in mind that all my modelling is done in Notepad++, so what I am about to say may turn out to be total rubbish. Now these robes that I tested, work (I beleive) in similar way to the robes that Lisa produced a good while ago. There is
one picture that really excited me on her robes compilation vault page. If you look at the third row (if I remember correctly) you will see a pair of mer-people. I have since been told that strictly speaking the tail is not a robe, but if it was redone as a robe it has the potential to look even better. The downside is that it would take a lot of work.
The thing is I beleive that, that is just the tip of the iceberg. There is the potential here to change any creature into something else. Consider if you will a curse - the curse of the chicken legs. A wizard/witch/et al casts a powerfull curse and hey presto, the character almost immediately stands there with the legs and feet of a chicken, but the torso upwards of a man. Then there is the possibility to create cyborgs. Yes I beleive there may well be problems due to the way that robes work, but the story telling possibilities... Heck it may even be possible to make instant servants of lolth (half person, half giant spider) or even turn a giant spider into a neogi (spelljammer major monster, like a giant spider with half a moray eel sticking out of where the eyes would normally be). But anyway, as I say I am not capable of making these but I think that at least some of the people on here (given the time) can. So I thought I would float the idea and see what people thought.
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