I only spent a little time in Disgaea tonight, but it was productive time, as I now have a couple muscle items that boost HPs, one by around 220 and the other by around 410. That’s kind of a lot when the character only has about 20 to begin with…

Technically, they were gained by perfectly legitimate means within the game rules…even if it was unintended… Basically, these muscle items are rewards from the hospital for healing your party a certain cumulative number of HPs. Since you can damage yourself by taking off a muscle item and putting it back on, you can repeatedly hurt yourself that way and get healed at the hospital without having to enter a battle. Eventually, you’ll earn the next muscle item reward, which lets you do it in even bigger chunks of HP, and you can sell off the previous muscle item you had to keep funding the healing.

I could have kept doing this for a couple more ranks of muscle items, but I don’t want to cheat *too* badly (or have to sell off too many of them to keep the funding going). These ones will be just enough to let me slap them on low-level characters and send them solo out on earlier missions to level them up, so they don’t fall too far behind.