View Single Post
Old 08-29-2019, 05:49 PM   #18
Prince Charon
 
Prince Charon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2012
Default Re: [Basic] Luck/Unluckiness limitation: Long-Term Relationships cost?

Quote:
Originally Posted by jason taylor View Post
Some thoughts:

The PC is from a tribalistic society that places great prestige on reproducing. Not having a mate is a slur on ones virility or femininity (anyone remember those pitiful barren women in the Old Testament or Mrs Bennet's fanatical matchmaking)?.

The character is cursed by Fair Folk. In that case unluckiness in love is Cursed or Jinxed or both. It might even be a Gaes.
Interesting thoughts.

Quote:
Originally Posted by jason taylor View Post
In fact if you make it a Gaes you can play with it a lot. "No children will come to you if you draw a weapon in battle". Maybe there can even be a way to get rid of the curse. Something equiv to stealing the jewels from Morgoth's Crown?
... stealing the Silmarils tends to make one's fate worse, IIRC.
__________________
Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life.

"The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates."
-- Tacitus

Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted.
Prince Charon is offline   Reply With Quote