Special Conversion Thread: Finishing off the fey

[freyar]

Let's go with prestidigitation, dancing lights, magic aura, ventriloquism, minor image, and misdirection. Just feels right. Anyone have any other thoughts on SLAs?

 

[Cleon]

Let's go with prestidigitation, dancing lights, magic aura, ventriloquism, minor image, and misdirection. Just feels right. Anyone have any other thoughts on SLAs?

Yup, I like that selection too.

As for other SLAs, it will need some sort of disguise self or change self ability to look like a human infant.

As for its feats, I was thinking Persuasive and Spell Focus (Illusion).

 

[Shade]

Yep, I like that SLA selection too.

Persuasive works, but let's avoid the whole "can Spell Focus apply to SLAs" debate again.

Faerie changelings are very old seelie faeries (see separate entry) who look enough like humans to pass as one. Though as small as human children, they bear an ancient aura, and their eyes frequently betray the millennia of wisdom hidden behind them. When first substituted for a human child, they typically appear from mere days to two years old. If the changeling’s nature is not discovered, it uses its limited Seeming powers to alter its appearance as it “grows up.”

It sounds like the faeries already look like human children, but could benefit from a SLA/Su ability to appear to age. Perhaps a racial bonus on Disguise checks to act as a human child?

They also retain their know alignmentability and remain immune to illusions/phantasms and charms, though upon entering Cerilia they lose the ability to turn invisible.

Drop the invisibility SLA?

 

[freyar]

I think a racial bonus to Disguise would work. A really hefty one, too.

Yes, let's drop invisibility.

 

[Cleon]

Yep, I like that SLA selection too.

Persuasive works, but let's avoid the whole "can Spell Focus apply to SLAs" debate again.

I must have missed that argument.

How about Persuasive and Weapon Finesse then?

Finnesse would change their shortsword attack from a +1 to a +6.

Oh, speaking of its shortsword - shouldn't it be masterwork?

It sounds like the faeries already look like human children, but could benefit from a SLA/Su ability to appear to age. Perhaps a racial bonus on Disguise checks to act as a human child?

I thought the tradition was they looked like very small extravagantly old men (or women, presumably) and where magically disguised as human infants.

Drop the invisibility SLA?

Agreed.

 

[freyar]

Persuasive and Weapon Finesse are fine by me. Masterwork makes sense for the sword, too.

As for the appearance, I could go either way, but I do think they need some kind of magical disguise ability in either case, along with a high racial bonus.

 

[Shade]

Both is fine. We can note in the flavor text the presence of both the traditional "old man posing as child" version, and the one spelled out in the original text of a child-looking faerie with an ancient aura and eyes belying wisdom.

Updated.

+10 racial bonus on the Disguise check?

Disguise self (as human or elven child only) at will?

 

[freyar]

Why not make it constant disguise self, suppressable or renewable as a free action?

 

[Shade]

Sure, that works for me. Similar to the pixie's greater invisibility, but in this case, an ongoing disguise.

Disguise Self (Su): A faerie changeling is supernaturally glamered to appear as a humanoid child, as if using a disguise self spell. This ability is constant, but the changeling can suppress or resume it as a free action.

 

[Cleon]

Sure, that works for me. Similar to the pixie's greater invisibility, but in this case, an ongoing disguise.

Disguise Self (Su): A faerie changeling is supernaturally glamered to appear as a humanoid child, as if using a disguise self spell. This ability is constant, but the changeling can suppress or resume it as a free action.

Looks good.