TWIIIIIIIIINK!

[thessalian]

...Oh. Oh my gods. I just ... oh dear gods the pain.

I uncapped the Sidhe kith on JusNoctis awhile back. I explained that I would be looking at Sidhe applications very, very carefully. And the first one I got? Oh dear gods...

App 5. Seeming's Blessing (which ups his Appearance to 7). Slipped Seeming at 3. Surreal Quality. And Changeling's Eyes. All in one package. This guy violates the Right to Ignorance just by existing!

House? Scathach. One of the Lost Houses. Now, that kind of thing would fit into the campaign as it's going, but the background was a two-paragraph bit of ludicrousness that didn't even begin to cover what this guy was supposed to be or do. I don't need to know that the character's bisexual in the notes - I need to know who the fuck gave him a Treasure that lets him have Willow Whisper. I need to know how the hell he didn't get prodded and poked and fostered around as a freak of nature when it was discovered that he was of the House that everybody loathes. I need to know how the hated one wound up with a fucking holding. No, wait, I know that one - his father was a freakin' Hollow One. (Mage ties? Not unless you earn 'em in game, sunshine.) Gremayre 3 with no Fae Lore. Just ... dear fucking gods, no.

I'm keeping the character sheet for this one as a PDF, just because it is the most painful bit of twinkery I have ever seen in my entire life. And now I'm going to have to edit the character creation guidelines again to make a note that having more than one Attribute above four is heavily frowned upon without a damn good reason. I mean, there were three of them! Dex, Charisma and Perception! Just ... gyah.

[Edit: No, actually, I've already said that in the character creation guidelines. How the hell big does the font have to be to make people pay some fucking attention?!?]

Christmas list to follow when I'm not still cringeing...

Comments

[ilyena_sylph]

...UM.

Yikes.

the words "hide" and "me" come to mind.

This guy is a Character, and NOT in the good way!

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I coulda warned you this would happen. But I figured you knew that :) *makes you soothing, soothing tea and gives you Evil!ST cookies*

[brigidsblest.livejournal.com]

App 5. Seeming's Blessing (which ups his Appearance to 7). Slipped Seeming at 3. Surreal Quality. And Changeling's Eyes. All in one package. This guy violates the Right to Ignorance just by existing!

Hee. I've often taken that first one, Seeming's Blessing, for Sidhe characters in the past, because Sidhe are supposed to be pretty...but not while stacking all the rest of those on top of it. (Actually, I've never taken Surreal Quality or Changeling's Eyes. And the only time I ever took Slipped Seeming was when playing a fox pooka.)

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

Well, given that App 3 is 'attractive' and App 5 is 'godlike good looks', taking Seeming's Blessing when you have App 2 or 3? Fine. Buying App 5 as basic for your mortal seeming and then adding Seeming's Blessing to that, so that you're App 7 (two levels beyond godlike) in mortal guise as well as Fae? Seems a little excessive. And that's without Slipped Seeming at a level so high your character literally glows and ... well, at least Changeling's Eyes can be explained away by designer contact lenses...

[brigidsblest.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It's one thing to be godlike gorgeous in Fae seeming...another thing to have it in mortal guise.

I explained it to my husband once: "With Seeming's Blessing and Slipped Seeming and a Sidhe appearance of 7 in mortal form? You'd go to church on Sunday morning and every man in the place (and a lot of women, too) would suddenly turn into drunken, lust-crazed Hell's Angels. You'd never make it out of there alive. Walk down the street? You couldn't; people with weak hearts would be having heart attacks as you passed."