>>712957012
I'm at least 87% sure it's not the designer's fetish.
He just likes making outrageous, Junji Ito-tier disgust-horror and likes fucking with his friends by making them go through dungeons filled with absolutely gross shit. I don't think
>I cast Castration
is a fetish thing anymore than I think the director of Bone Tomahawk has a fetish for getting split like a wishbone. It's just gross and unnerving for the sake of horror.
Fortunately, 99+% of players won't pick the really gross, edgy shit because even the act of learning that Forbidden magic makes you so evil that your character becomes corrupted, disfigured, and hideous.