Double-muscled

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Double-muscled

	Physical
	3
	HeightenedStrength
	no

Double-muscled

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You are possessed of hulking strength.

+(level based) Strength
(level based) chance to daze your opponent on a successful melee attack for 2-3 rounds

Double-muscled is a physical mutation that increases the player's Strength. Additionally, every melee attack a creature with Double-muscled makes that hits and successfully penetrates has a mutation level based chance to daze their target for 2-3 rounds. This effect functions similarly to dazing caused by a critical hit from a cudgel, and will stun creatures that are already dazed for 1 round. A single attack can daze more than once if there are multiple sources of daze, such as a cudgel's critical hit or Bludgeon. This can stun a target with a single blow.

Formulas

The following formulas are used to calculate strength bonus and daze chance based on mutation level.

Strength Bonus	2 + (Level - 1) / 2
Daze Chance	13 + 2 × Level

Advancement Table

Mutation Level	Strength Bonus	Daze Chance
1	+2	15%
2	+2	17%
3	+3	19%
4	+3	21%
5	+4	23%
6	+4	25%
7	+5	27%
8	+5	29%
9	+6	31%
10	+6	33%

Mutation Level	Strength Bonus	Daze Chance
11	+7	35%
12	+7	37%
13	+8	39%
14	+8	41%
15	+9	43%
16	+9	45%
17	+10	47%
18	+10	49%
19	+11	51%
20	+11	53%

Mutation Level	Strength Bonus	Daze Chance
21	+12	55%
22	+12	57%
23	+13	59%
24	+13	61%
25	+14	63%
26	+14	65%
27	+15	67%
28	+15	69%
29	+16	71%
30	+16	73%

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Additional strength causes the player to do more damage in melee via additional penetrations, as well as increases carrying capacity
• Gaining strength from a mutation rather than by increasing it through the Attribute Points granted at level-ups allows those points to go to other Attributes, or allows you to get extremely high strength
• Synergizes well with weapons/mutations that have uncapped strength bonuses, such as Horns
• Synergizes well with mutations that grant additional limbs that can be used in combat, such as Multiple Arms
• The daze effect caused by this mutation can often prevent enemies from reacting to your attacks or fighting back. Dazing an already dazed creature will stun the target instead.

Disadvantages

• Moderate cost at character creation
• Grants a relatively low strength bonus at mutation level 1 and takes many levels for this bonus to significantly increase

References