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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aspect of BOZ" data-source="post: 3175520" data-attributes="member: 41113"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />OK, here’s where I’m coming from with these guys.  Yes, they are silly and whimsical and cute, and I’m not going to take that away from them.  However, the ideas that we’ve generated add a much-needed depth to the creatures, which will strengthen them in many fundamental ways, hopefully.  They won’t be any different combat-wise, but flavor-wise there will be a world of difference.  No longer will they be silly hair-swingers with no other point to existence, now their playfulness is a product of something much greater.So, here we go… let me know how close to “right on” I’ve got this:Legend holds that the smallest and most innocuous of faeries are, in their own way, among the most powerful.  It is told that these creatures, seemingly swinging innocently, hold secrets of the millennia.  A playful group of stwingers will charm an adventuring party into helplessness, and swing from one long-haired person to a bearded person, back to another long-haired person, all the while singing a barely audible lullaby; this swinging deals nonlethal damage which can ultimately leave creatures unconscious.  Some say that the tiny faeries then steal the victims’ hair, and that with each hair comes a memory, emotion, or secret, leaving a victim feebleminded until the hair grows back.  It is said that their songs contain pieces of such memories stolen through the years, and many have sought out this sage-like knowledge, only to have their own memories stolen in the same fashion.  The stolen hairs are collected to braid into ropes, woven into their homes, or made into their own form of magic scrolls.I know it’s a little long, but I think the explanation is mandatory.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I’m only going to pitch these guys once; if our brilliant revision is still a no-go, then I’m washing my hands of them.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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