In my PFS game today, one of my players (and another player's badger companion) got hit with a Vargouille's kiss while playing "Mists of Mwangi." They lost their hair after only an hour, so they didn't have time to get their disease removed before that. I marked "bald" as a condition gained, but is that permanent, or will the hair grow back?
It'll come back. "Stopping the transformation requires remove disease or a similar effect. The transformation is a disease effect."
Once the disease is cured, all its negative effects can be undone. It'll probably take a while though. Poor badger.
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You can just get hair plugs like Joe Biden.
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It doesn't seem to be defined, though I might reason as follows: The transformation is a disease effect. Typically, when a disease is cured, the effects remain but can be healed over time unless the effect specifically says they can't (as ability drain does). Previous editions offered the reversible hairy cantrip, which suggests that the designers considered hair loss and hair growth to be fairly minor and easily-changeable effects.
If you record baldness as a Condition Gained, the player has to purchase a spell to remove it. It's not obvious what spell would do it by RAW short of regenerate. A GM might consider that hair loss is plainly a lesser condition than blindness or deafness, so at worst a 3rd level spell should fix it, most likely remove disease.
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I'd recommend leaving some of those aesthetics details up to the victim's player. They might like to run with a bit of it.
I've always liked the idea of an experienced adventurer who had a close call with vargouilles long ago, who cut off the facial tentacles and healed those spots but kept the tentacle hair.
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I'd recommend leaving some of those aesthetics details up to the victim's player. They might like to run with a bit of it.
I've always liked the idea of an experienced adventurer who had a close call with vargouilles long ago, who cut off the facial tentacles and healed those spots but kept the tentacle hair.
I like this answer best. As a GM I wouldn't want to interfere too much with the aesthetics of a character, not permanently anyway.
We just played the same adventure today, and ran into similar issues. The two of us who were affected were a halfling and my nagaji. Since my character is a reptile, we wondered what would happen to him instead of hair loss. Scale loss, perhaps?
Wouldn't that be like... horribly bad? I'm no expert on reptiles, but if you pulled off the scales on a reptile, wouldn't that basically be like ripping their skin off?