Special Conversion Thread: Finishing off the fey

[Shade]

Looking at some of the other evil fey for inspiration...

• Beguiling Song
• Corruption of Beauty (unseelie nymph)
• Gaze of ruin (siabrie)
• Lose the Way (yuki-on-na)
• Powerful Build
• Shadow-related powers
• Size change (spriggan)
• SLAs: bestow curse, crushing despair, rage, rusting grasp, scare, shatter
• Sneak attack
• Sylvan warrior (banshrae)
• Unique curses

 

[freyar]

Swapping in any or all of those powers seems good to me.

 

[Shade]

Hmmm...which on the current list should we drop to make room for some of these?

I could see dropping Animal Companion, Spritelike, and Special Arrows. What else?

 

[freyar]

Well, the SLAs you have listed can go with the themes. Let's make the Shadow-related powers as a them for SLAs, also. (Actually, I wonder if the original text supports themes too much, but we should still put these in the SLAs.)

With the ones you suggest dropping, we need to drop six more things. How about Terrain Feature Dependent, either Powerful Build or Size Change (since they are similar in spirit), Musical Instrument, Greater Musical Instrument, Sneak Attack or Sylvan Warrior (I don't know the latter, but these also sound similar), and Multi-layered (especially if we don't do themes).

 

[demiurge1138]

Well, the special arrows can be switched out for the better weapons, certainly.

 

[Shade]

Well, the SLAs you have listed can go with the themes. Let's make the Shadow-related powers as a them for SLAs, also. (Actually, I wonder if the original text supports themes too much, but we should still put these in the SLAs.)

Good points. I can definitely see a shadow theme, probably keep the trickster, maybe add "frightener" and "avenger" themes?

With the ones you suggest dropping, we need to drop six more things. How about Terrain Feature Dependent, either Powerful Build or Size Change (since they are similar in spirit), Musical Instrument, Greater Musical Instrument, Sneak Attack or Sylvan Warrior (I don't know the latter, but these also sound similar), and Multi-layered (especially if we don't do themes).

We don't necessarily have to drop anything...we can just tinker with the random number ranges.

Sylvan Warrior looks like a watered-down unearthly grace (just the AC bonus), so we can drop that.

Let's drop powerful build, as the actual size-changing faeries are more iconic.

Well, the special arrows can be switched out for the better weapons, certainly.

Good point!

 

[freyar]

Shadow, trickster, frightener, and avenger sound good.

Let's keep Terrain Feature Dependent and Multilayered, then. I'm 50-50 on the musical instruments.

How does it look?

 

[Shade]

Updated. (Whew!)

I haven't added any shadow-related powers or unique curses to the main abilities list yet, nor have I moved the SLAs I listed above into any of the SLA lists.

Feel free to expand on the themes.

 

[freyar]

I think swapping the avenger SLA list into the frightener list would be a good start due to the illusions there now. We could change some out for necromancy also.

 

[Shade]

Oops...the SLA lists are still leftovers from the Seelie Faerie that I typed over. We'll need to rebuild them all from scratch.