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<blockquote data-quote="Immortal Sun" data-source="post: 7558498"><p>Respect, or fear?</p><p></p><p>Do you want your players to see some fae and run away screaming? Do you want them to pay humble respects in the presence of fae?</p><p></p><p>It's not terribly difficult to present <em>horrifying</em> creatures, but it <em>is</em> difficult to get people to take horror seriously. It's a problem I've had attempting to run Ravenloft and CoC. There's no giant flesh-eating, mind-warping monster in front of their faces to truly terrorize them, it's just words and your attempt to describe the indescribable and it's difficult to describe the indescribable without making it sound <em>silly</em>. Like, have you ever looked at pictures of great old ones? It's more goofy than it is terrifying. Granted <strong>in person</strong> it would be terrifying. But as a picture or a description they're all well...pretty describable. </p><p></p><p>I think this puts it best: </p><p>Fae, true fae, not faeries or elves or redcaps or boggarts, but true fae are semi-phenomenal nearly-cosmic beings. Their power is limited only by the fact that they tend to only use it to entertain themselves, and they bore quickly, and that boredom manifests as untold cruelties upon their targets. And <em>noone</em> shy of gods has the power to stop them (and none of them really have any interest), which makes the subject doubly horrible, not only are you tortured for an eternity by a giddy fae, but your god <em>won't</em> help you.</p><p></p><p>The fae, in many respects, operate on the <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueAndOrangeMorality" target="_blank">blue/orange alignment</a> spectrum. </p><p></p><p>The true fae are hard to run, they're exceedingly inhuman and we are only human. </p><p></p><p> Alas, such are the imperfections of flesh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Immortal Sun, post: 7558498"] Respect, or fear? Do you want your players to see some fae and run away screaming? Do you want them to pay humble respects in the presence of fae? It's not terribly difficult to present [I]horrifying[/I] creatures, but it [I]is[/I] difficult to get people to take horror seriously. It's a problem I've had attempting to run Ravenloft and CoC. There's no giant flesh-eating, mind-warping monster in front of their faces to truly terrorize them, it's just words and your attempt to describe the indescribable and it's difficult to describe the indescribable without making it sound [I]silly[/I]. Like, have you ever looked at pictures of great old ones? It's more goofy than it is terrifying. Granted [B]in person[/B] it would be terrifying. But as a picture or a description they're all well...pretty describable. I think this puts it best: Fae, true fae, not faeries or elves or redcaps or boggarts, but true fae are semi-phenomenal nearly-cosmic beings. Their power is limited only by the fact that they tend to only use it to entertain themselves, and they bore quickly, and that boredom manifests as untold cruelties upon their targets. And [I]noone[/I] shy of gods has the power to stop them (and none of them really have any interest), which makes the subject doubly horrible, not only are you tortured for an eternity by a giddy fae, but your god [I]won't[/I] help you. The fae, in many respects, operate on the [URL="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueAndOrangeMorality"]blue/orange alignment[/URL] spectrum. The true fae are hard to run, they're exceedingly inhuman and we are only human. Alas, such are the imperfections of flesh. [/QUOTE]
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