Expansion in Tabletop RPGs

I found a direct inflation reference in a  DnD supplement called the Book of Hell my mongoose publishing. It was in a section of what spuls can be used for as they are exactly like the petson they come from but as are indestructable, can be moulded to varipus shapes e.g furniture or weapons. However one was the soul balloon. The victim has their orifices either sealed with pitch or sewn shut barring one. Demons then inflate the soul with lighter than air gasses found in certain layers of the abyss to enormous proportions before sealing them. They can be lashed to a barge with several other ballons to create war balloons. This is apparently very uncomfortable and humiliating for the victim soul. Sounds great to me though!

I haven't played any tabletop games like that, but regardless I would love to have a spell where I could do that to myself!

Heh, I don't think it'd be reverseable if demons are involved. Though, say if you found a way to make yourself incorporeal(like a ghost) and the way you flew was by inflating, that'd be pretty neat.

I know it's not gaming but it's from a similar universe. Terry Pratchett's Discworld has a poison used by assassins called bloat. It is derived from pufferfish livers and is administered by poison dart, causing the target to swell up to the size of a zeppelin, before going boom.

A side question concerning OP.

Is there a market for inflationary tabletops?

I ask because you need a partner to play for your opponents, right? ^_^ Say, if I make such a tabletop for free, and share it - is there anybody able to try it (meaning, has a partner to play it with, sitting at the same table) ?

May I ask which world do you prefer as a generic inflation world for a tabletop?

I'm asking in advance - in a month I'll draw ugly figurines for it and I'll need to know whether to draw valkyrias and aprasas with "inflation+5" swords, or businesswomen and bikergirls with helium tanks and airpumps.

I've been thinking about something like this for a while, could definitely be fun! ^^

A friend of mine within the inflation community actually ran a 1st edition DnD campaign a few years ago that featured a LOT of inflation-related content.  I played as an alchemist who fought using potions and elixirs, rather than spells - many of which induced inflation of one sort or another.  He did an excellent job of translating inflation into the DnD rules, including how a character's stats would affect the shapes and sizes they could attain.  The party tank, for example, had a ridiculously high resistance to bursting, due to her high Constitution score, allowing her to balloon to insane proportions before having to worry about going bang.  My character, by contrast, had fairly low physical stats (being a squishy caster-type and all), and so could not get very large before reaching her limits.  The one exception was breast inflation - my character had an abnormally large bust, which allowed her breasts to inflate MUCH larger than would normally have been possible for someone with her stats (bigger even than our tank, in some cases). 

I know TheArtificer/ThePencilandPaperGuy was also working on some inflation-themed DnD rules, and has posted a few previews of them over the years, but I'm not sure if he ever released the finished product.  Other attempts at inflation-themed DnD-style games have been made elsewhere, but most of them never got off the ground (or fizzled quickly if they did).  People with the inclination to run games like these, and the temperment to be good GMs, are sadly rare in this community.  The fact that most of the prospective players out there often have... less than stellar attention spans doesn't really help matters either. ^^;

https://yadi.sk/i/cM-L1dWnqbmJU
https://yadi.sk/i/KXXSYjwKqbmJY

Also - the same files are available through the VSG links, they're in the same folder, subfolder "Game mechanics"

Hello there! ^_^

Since everyone's so busy that no one who claimed "I'm interested!" responded to PM for a whole week - I'll just unleash yet another nerdy manual. Enjoy! ^_^ I'll be happy if you try this game mechanics in an actual tabletop!

Basically what I did is just cut out the scenario, characters, windows, field and such from the Game design document - and the remainder seems suitable to become a game mechanics for a tabletop RPG.

The field is optional, it can be a tabletop without a table as well. But a large piece of paper covering the table, made of large cells, might add a lot to imagination of who is where, what is their relative size - and what you can actually DO to each other.

Figurines. Take a paper rectangle, bend it in the middle to make it stand like a book. Draw a character on each side.
You'll need five figurines like that - normal, inflating and small, inflating and big, full, and overfilled to the very brim. I thought a bit more about drawing. Each player drawing his/her figurines sounds like a good idea for a starter.

The first chapter is by Winglyking - he did it wonderful here: http://bodyinflation.org/node/35923

I miiiight get the time to tinker a bit with this game mechanics and automate it in an easy way. You can look at how the more simple version of this mechanics runs in my older game "Arena"

Have fun! ^_^

I cannot partake in these, as I would flip the table, without using my hands or feet.

The GURPS RPG system by Steve Jackson has a spell called "Corpulence."  It does exactly what you thinki it does and you can cast it mutliple times on the same victim.