Vote up an Urban Fantasy Setting

[Joe]

My four cents:

3 - Creatures of the Night
4 - Dragons
1 - Enchanted beasts
2 - Other (If this wins, I'm happy to agree to others' others. If you get me.)

[ericthered]

I must be honest, I want other to win just so we can start up another of those wonderful 'Race Submissions' threads. The last two have provided me with creatures for multiple games...

[combatmedic]

Originally Posted by ericthered

I must be honest, I want other to win just so we can start up another of those wonderful 'Race Submissions' threads. The last two have provided me with creatures for multiple games...

We will probably do that anyway, for fairies. GURPS Fairies provides a starting point on crunch and a lot of ideas.

We may also have some tinkering on witches ( hag monsters that could also be considered fairies, witchy human variants, lens or templates for human witches).

[combatmedic]

Originally Posted by Faolyn

I'll second that--or at least ghouls that gain memories via eating (and possibly can shapechange into someone they ate--I forget if that's a real Lovecraftian/mythical ghoul ability or if that's just from Supernatural). I'm not entirely sure we want them to always have the hooves and canine appearance that Lovecraft's did. I like that as a base form, however.

Memories, yeah nice one.

GURPS Fantasy folk ghouls are cool, too.

[Faolyn]

Originally Posted by combatmedic

We will probably do that anyway, for fairies. GURPS Fairies provides a starting point on crunch and a lot of ideas.

We may also have some tinkering on witches ( hag monsters that could also be considered fairies, witchy human variants, lens or templates for human witches).

Well, some faery questions for the group:

Will they be divided into Seelie/Unseelie courts or not? Is there a single faery "culture" or are there many, so that British Isle faeries are Seelie/Unseelie but African faeries have a completely different hierarchy?

How do they view humans? Can the two interbreed? Are there such a thing as changelings--either part-fae or fae that have replaced human children cuckoo-like?

Are there lots of distinct breeds of faery, or are they simply capable of glamour so they appear however they like and there are relatively few types, or even only one?

And a witchy questions:

Can anyone become a witch via study, do you have to be born to a witch or in a certain bloodline, or do you have to make a deal with something in order to gain witchy powers?

[roguebfl]

Originally Posted by Faolyn

Will they be divided into Seelie/Unseelie courts or not? Is there a single faery "culture" or are there many, so that British Isle faeries are Seelie/Unseelie but African faeries have a completely different hierarchy?

I like the Dresden Files take, the build Seelie/Unseelie Courts plus the Wild Fae

Where the Chagelings are half-fae that when then grow they have tho chose either their mortal heritage or their fae heritage

[combatmedic]

Originally Posted by Faolyn

Well, some faery questions for the group:

Will they be divided into Seelie/Unseelie courts or not? Is there a single faery "culture" or are there many, so that British Isle faeries are Seelie/Unseelie but African faeries have a completely different hierarchy?

How do they view humans? Can the two interbreed? Are there such a thing as changelings--either part-fae or fae that have replaced human children cuckoo-like?

Are there lots of distinct breeds of faery, or are they simply capable of glamour so they appear however they like and there are relatively few types, or even only one?

And a witchy questions:

Can anyone become a witch via study, do you have to be born to a witch or in a certain bloodline, or do you have to make a deal with something in order to gain witchy powers?

Some of those may make it onto polls. Thanks.

[Randyman]

2 • Creatures of the Night (If this one wins, we will do another poll to pick a set of specific monsters from the GURPS, Creatures of the Night books—including the one for 3E)

3 • Dragons (presumably they have some means of hiding from/among humans, unless they are all asleep)

4 • Enchanted beasts (e.g. witches’ familiars, magically uplifted/”awakened “animals)

1 • Other (please be specific. I this one wins, we will do one more poll with new entries based on your votes/comments) [Lowest preference; I don't have a fetish about non-traditional creatures.]

[Sciencezam]

4-Creatures Of The Night
3-Dragons
2-Other-Skinwalker, Wendigo, MIB, assorted sub-humans
1-Enchanted Beasts

As for becoming a witch-I like the idea that someone has to get real, real crazy before they can become a witch. Like they're a normal human for whom sheer hatred turns them into...something else. Kinda like Medea, if she only got her powers after Jason cheated on her.

[Celjabba]

Greater value number rank= greater preference.

3• Creatures of the Night (If this one wins, we will do another poll to pick a set of specific monsters from the GURPS, Creatures of the Night books—including the one for 3E)

2• Dragons (presumably they have some means of hiding from/among humans, unless they are all asleep)

1• Enchanted beasts (e.g. witches’ familiars, magically uplifted/”awakened “animals)

4• Other : Hounds of Tindalos or similar Time-travel related creature

Celjabba