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Blondini said
Ok. I promise a character sheet tomorrow. I have to sew four claptraps tonight for my bfs birthday... It's totally not last minute at all *ahem* But I am keen. Leaning toward wisp or maybe a dryad who's forest used to be in part of NY but is now part of some kind of botanical garden type thing (I assume NY has one. I've never been to America). Maybe a brownie.

Dryads will be concentrated in central park which is a neutral zone with respect to the courts. There are probably other possible locations, you'd need to do a little research.

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I should add that you shouldnt let the volume of the material convince you that I want to micromanage everything. There are LOTS of gaps, because the world is soooo huge. If you see one of those gaps don't be afraid to fill it yourself when you make your character so long as you are true to what's already been laid out.

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Quarthex said
How humanoid are most of these critters? For example, when reading about the gnomes I got a very shrewish/moleish feel, but I'm not sure how far (if) that goes. And what about the others?

Yeah I was purposely vague because I wanted people to be able to to tweak the appearance a bit to suit their own vision of the species. The gnomes definitely look less 'humanoid' than the Sidhe or the Alfar, though. With the species like gnomes, kobolds, trolls and goblins I was thinking more along the lines of Brian Froud's fairy imagery. Still humanoid but somewhat less so than your standard glittering elf or pixie. Unless otherwise stated though, all fairies have an at least vaguely humanoid appearance. Even the Puca are anthropomorphic in their standard guise.

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I added a section on the setting in Game Details. I have decided on New York since it is an urban setting that would be at least somewhat familiar to all players.

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Blondini said
Oh, also, are we going to all be living close to each other- so people in Unseelie and Seelie courts will kind of be in opposition- and there will be some ability for contact? Is there sort of an overarching plot- will there need to be something that the Seelie and Unseelie, and possibly neutral, fey have to band together for? I only ask to help make a character as there seems to be little direction to make choices upon.

I don't think we'll have enough players for the faction element so the players will probably have to choose a Court for their troop to belong to (or they could try to be independent). We would need at least six players for a two group faction RP and I've yet to get a single CS. And yes I do want the PCs to be cemented into a group, a fairy troop. The relationships can be pregame or they can meet up in game.

There will be a main plot but it will be nested within a sandbox open world. My plots are always nonlinear and never prewritten. I never have any clue how things will conclude when they start and this is how I like it. Everything essentially depends on player choice and nothing is assured.

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@all Don't be alarmed by IC posts, this is not the game starting, this is me writing a kind of introduction to set the scene so that people will have an easier time understanding the world and making characters.

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Blondini said
Just a quick question (I'm halfway through reading the info on species, and I'm favouring wisps so far), when you say a photo of a fey can destroy them, does it have to be of the whole fey or just a part. or say, would the glimpse of a wing tip (I guess this goes for seeing as well as photos) destroy the whole fey or just the wing tip as seen? I guess I'm asking- does seeing a small (non-vital) part of a fey destroy the part or the whole thing? Sorry- its not terribly well phrased.

That's a good one. Have you ever played Mage? Familiar with the concept of paradox where if mage casts a spell that is obviously magic then if it is observed by sleepers (aka muggles) the mage suffers a paradox backlash? Same kind of thing here. If the photo can be explained away, if a logical explanation can be offered, then it will not kill the fey and the image will persist, but if it is obviously a fairy then regardless of how much of the fairy is pictured, she and the image would essentially vanish from existence. Granted for it to be so obviously otherworldly it needs to be a picture of more than a wingtip, a streaking blur or a weird fuzzy UFO

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Blondini said
Give me a day to read through all your information and I'll get you a character sheet up. This sounds like an amazing concept and I would love to see it get up and running.

Great, but remember that what I have here in terms of info is essentially a source book. I wouldn't expect a D&D player to read the player's handbook front to back. You can if you want, but it's not required. All that info is there as a reference. That being said some of the more general topics are pretty much a mandatory read to understand the setting.

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No Han shot first!!!!!!11
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Actually no he didn't.
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Blashphemy!
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Greedo shot first, absolutely sure of it.
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How so sure?
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Because I'm an elf.
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Haha
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In a crack between two walls in the rotten heart of a modern city, squeezed a small room with every modern convenience an industrious machine elf could provide for himself. LED lamps lit the room and ionizers constructed from laptop fans filtered the otherwise stale and spore infested air. A touchpad propped upright like a massive computer monitor dominated one wall, it's pixilated display broken only by the pointy eared silhouete of a three and a half inch tall elf. It was soon joined by a second, as another fairy entered through the tiny cubicle's sliding mouse-door.

Krith craned his elfin head over his brother's narrow shoulder. The older alfar frowned at the endless stream of ceaseless chatter scrolling down along the modified lcd of a 'borrowed' human cell phone. The machine elves excelled at transforming scavenged human pocket tech into desktop computers they could access at their perceptive and temporal scale. On the monitor reflecting Sil's long pointed ears and mischievious grin, images flashed along at 300 frames a second with resolutions upwards of 5000 pp, fast and refined enough to trick the elf's acute eyes the way a plodding 30 frame per second movie fooled a human's. It was a challenge from a technical perspective, making a computer system as twitchy as an elf, but it pretty much assured that they carried the top scores in Team Fortress and every other high paced shooter.

"Is this all you've been doing while I've been out?" Krith groaned, "trolling starwars geeks?"

Sil grinned, "oh no, this is all part of a larger project. You see," he flipped the touch screen to bring up a divided window, "I have two troll threads, one over here with the star wars people and another over here with the trekkies... and once I get each flamed up to the right temperature, I drop a couple subtle hyperlinks and cross the streams. Suddenly you have a bunch of pissed off trekkies and starwars geeks all in the same confined board..."

"And then what?" Krith asked straining to find the point.

"Then we sit back and enjoy the lulz."

Krith sighed, "I think you're spending too much time with gremlins."

"You just don't appreciate the evil genius of this project. It's like secretly inviting an acid and a base that hate each other to a date in the same beaker."

"Just make sure you clear the history after you're done, we don't want your little comments there to be traced back here by a judicar or any other arm of the Council." He pointed a long, accusatory finger to one of the more recent posts.

"But that's actually the truth, I mean to an elf that firefight between Hans and Greedo takes nearly full five seconds to transpire, it's clear that Greedo did in fact..."

"Don't. Just don't. You know exactly what I'm talking about. The Unseelie may not take many things seriously, but breaking the fourth wall is certainly one of those things. They find you exposing the fairy even as a joke online, and you'll wind up banished in your own private dreamland for all time."

"Actually when you put it that way it doesn't sound that bad."

"Just shut up and get yourself ready. That Seelie ball is tonight."

"Oh you mean the one we're not stabbed for showing up at."

"Yes that one, now get your tucks."

"But what about the trolling?"

Krith reached in and killed the windows evoking a chagrin on his brother's face equal to an artist witnessing the brutal destruction of his greatest masterpiece. "I dislike that word, whoever made it up never saw a real troll in the flesh."

"Actually they did," Sil corrected, "a machine elf invented the term."

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I'll see if I can generate some more interest on the general interest thread since some people other than myself seem to want this to happen XD