My players are statting up characters right now. The campaign guide is extremely evocative, and has inspired much more creative responses than usual.
Take, for example, the following (submitted when a player was asked to provide a background for his deep faen (drow/halfling) assassin):
‘ A little mouse with a hungry mouth and so many friends to meet’
echoes out of the top of the soot covered alley as a wind-up clockwork
mouse comes out of the darkness, and strange music notes eminate from
within.
Urú Scáthaigh Ciotóg resides in the Needles, in a cluttered toyshop
filled with half completed toys, mannequins and other oddities that
fill every nook and cranny. The two story shop has a strange sigh, and
the darkness seems to thicken around the doorway. The surroundings
ooze menace. Despite the grim exterior, the sound of a child’s
laughter can be heard from within, as well as the monotone of clockwork
in motion.
So he tinkers, he alters and fixes and adds to things, and he prods
and dissects and asks questions that should not be asked, whether
people are willing or not.
He is a Technologist and seems a little off to people, mainly from the
close connection he has with the Dreaming.
