Post by Crimhthan The Great on May 15, 2018 10:45:58 GMT -5
I posted this in 2007 and the link is to a 2003 post.
This class was posted over at DF on Thu Feb 27, 2003 by Sieg.
Fairy Class for OD&D: Opinions Please!
This is the original thread title at DF. I was curious as to what all of you thought about his writeup. I thought it is quite good.
I am quoting his statement here but replacing Fairy or Fay with Elven, Elves or Elf. This is pretty close to the way I do elves, I don't have drow, I just have Seelie and Unseelie, Lawful & Chaotic with a few Neutrals. In the below quote my changes are in bold.
"Elven society is divided into two camps, the Seelie and Unseelie courts. These courts exist in pocket dimensions that have access to the Prime Material Plane but are not part of it. Elves owing fealty to the Seelie court are mostly Lawful in alignment, while those choosing to be part of the Unseelie court are usually Chaotic. There are Neutral Elves in each court, but they are few as the gnossis of the courts tend to draw most Elves to either Law or Chaos. A very small number of Elves wander the Prime Material Plane, seeking new experiences and comrades in the world."
Like I say this is pretty much how I run elves IMC and if I had written down my own defintion, I could not have done it better than this or as good for that matter. I think this is good example of how to apply Law and Chaos to the game and to allow for Elves as PCs while being able to run the darker Chaotic type elves that tend to the common example in folklore.
So two questions really, what do you think of his writeup of a Fairy Class and how do you feel about running elves this way (that is by the quoted statement not the fairy writeup)?
Fairy Class for OD&D: Opinions Please!
This is the original thread title at DF. I was curious as to what all of you thought about his writeup. I thought it is quite good.
I am quoting his statement here but replacing Fairy or Fay with Elven, Elves or Elf. This is pretty close to the way I do elves, I don't have drow, I just have Seelie and Unseelie, Lawful & Chaotic with a few Neutrals. In the below quote my changes are in bold.
"Elven society is divided into two camps, the Seelie and Unseelie courts. These courts exist in pocket dimensions that have access to the Prime Material Plane but are not part of it. Elves owing fealty to the Seelie court are mostly Lawful in alignment, while those choosing to be part of the Unseelie court are usually Chaotic. There are Neutral Elves in each court, but they are few as the gnossis of the courts tend to draw most Elves to either Law or Chaos. A very small number of Elves wander the Prime Material Plane, seeking new experiences and comrades in the world."
Like I say this is pretty much how I run elves IMC and if I had written down my own defintion, I could not have done it better than this or as good for that matter. I think this is good example of how to apply Law and Chaos to the game and to allow for Elves as PCs while being able to run the darker Chaotic type elves that tend to the common example in folklore.
So two questions really, what do you think of his writeup of a Fairy Class and how do you feel about running elves this way (that is by the quoted statement not the fairy writeup)?
