[DF] The Fairy-Blooded

b-dog · 04-07-2013, 07:24 PM

I was just trying to organize the cosmology of my game world. I like the ideas of fairies being powerful and that they can live in dungeons without having to eat or have biological explanation as to why they can live in a dungeon for so long. I also like the take on faires in GURPS Faerie and Ars Magica. In DF the monsters have to be powerful to provide a challenge and the monter races in DF3 are too weak.

On the other hand many players want to play fairie races and so I decided that fairy-blooded was a good explanation for lower powered fairy races used as PCs. Elf-blooded PCs are graceful, slender, pointy eared nature lovers but they need to eat and are affected by things that affect mortal beings thus they will fit into a human based party and not be too unfair. At the same time elf-blooded are not true fairies so they don't know how to make all of the magic items that their elven ancesters can make. It also keeps the true fairies most mysterious because an elf-blooded may not know much more about true elves than humans.

04-07-2013, 07:24 PM	#7
b-dog Join Date: Nov 2006	Re: [DF] The Fairy-Blooded I was just trying to organize the cosmology of my game world. I like the ideas of fairies being powerful and that they can live in dungeons without having to eat or have biological explanation as to why they can live in a dungeon for so long. I also like the take on faires in GURPS Faerie and Ars Magica. In DF the monsters have to be powerful to provide a challenge and the monter races in DF3 are too weak. On the other hand many players want to play fairie races and so I decided that fairy-blooded was a good explanation for lower powered fairy races used as PCs. Elf-blooded PCs are graceful, slender, pointy eared nature lovers but they need to eat and are affected by things that affect mortal beings thus they will fit into a human based party and not be too unfair. At the same time elf-blooded are not true fairies so they don't know how to make all of the magic items that their elven ancesters can make. It also keeps the true fairies most mysterious because an elf-blooded may not know much more about true elves than humans.