Special Conversion Thread: Finishing off the fey

[freyar]

Yup, that's good. And still the +10 racial bonus?

 

[Shade]

That would probably be too much, so I'm willing to let it go.

Updated.

A faerie changeling is 2 to 4 feet tall and weighs 20 to 50 pounds?

Faerie changelings speak Common and Sylvan. Those who impersonate elven children also speak Elven?

 

[freyar]

That all sounds fine.

I think the descriptive text for the spell of forgetting might need changing to account for the fact that you don't run into these at the seelie court.

Human changelings as an underbar?

 

[Cleon]

That would probably be too much, so I'm willing to let it go.

I agree. No need to give let it double up on a +10 Disguise bonus, the disguise self ability is enough.

A faerie changeling is 2 to 4 feet tall and weighs 20 to 50 pounds?

Those weights are OK by me.

Faerie changelings speak Common and Sylvan. Those who impersonate elven children also speak Elven?

Isn't that needlessly fiddly - just have them all speak Common, Elven and Sylvan?

 

[Cleon]

That all sounds fine.

I think the descriptive text for the spell of forgetting might need changing to account for the fact that you don't run into these at the seelie court.

Human changelings as an underbar?

Maybe we should just cut out the spell of forgetting.

Re-reading the original description, there's no mention of the faerie changeling using it, instead the faerie court uses it to prevent human changelings remembering their time "away with the faeries."

There is mention of faerie changelings "using the infamous, confusing faerietalk", which I suppose we might need to think about - some kind of sonic language-dependent confusion effect? Or just a lesser confusion SLA?

 

[freyar]

I was pondering cutting the spell of forgetting myself.

I think the confusing faerietalk is just flavor text, since I don't recall anything about that with the seelie faeries themselves.

 

[Shade]

Agreed. Let's drop the spell of forgetting and ignore the faerietalk.

Updated.

Shall we work on the human changelings underbar?

 

[freyar]

Upthread, I argued that they should just have the fey bloodline, probably minor or intermediate.

 

[Shade]

Updated.

 

[Cleon]

Updated.

Looking good. I can't see anything left to do, so shall we declare it finished?

EDIT: I wrote to soon. In its Vulnerability to Salt it says a seelie faerie struck by salt "becomes visible and cannot use its invisibilty [sic] spell-like ability for 1d4 minutes".

Perfectly reasonable - except it doesn't have invisibility as a spell-like ability.

Then I looked at the SLAs and they're "always active" rather than at-will or X/day. If it's constantly surrounded by dancing lights, minor images, misdirections, prestidigitation and ventriloquism effects it's a wonder they avoid suspicion!

Make all the SLAs at-will?

Add invisibility 3/day or at-will or modify the vulnerability to salt?