Gearing up for Actual Play: Siehe and the Fey

[Jake Norwood]

After playing lots of other stuff for a few months, we're getting ready to play TROS once again (it was all the cool stuff in OBAM that inspired me). The campaign I'm planning is going to revolve around a PC group of all Fey and Siehe. I really wanted a sense of wonder for this, and I thought this might be the best way to do it (plus we really get to put the magic section through some torture). I'll be focusing on Uglub and his hatred of the Fey (and who Uglub is to me, really), and on how the Elves get a long when they've left their courts. We'll be bringing out the "class struggle" between the Fey (Siehe Lords) and the Seelie/Unseelie, and how the Elves see the short-lived humans.

Finally, we're going to approach that great question, where are all of the Elves' souls going when they die?

So anyway, we don't have characters rolled up yet, nor any other major details, but I'm significantly stoked about running this and about the material for Sorcery and the Fey that'll be coming out of it.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Do's-and-don'ts?

Jake

[Ashren Va'Hale]

just out of curiousity, are any of the characters to be generated for this using insight points from previous characters?

and furthermore Jake, when you created the whole riddle of souls deal did you have an explanation in mind or was it another one of those things you prposefully left unresolved like Uglub?

And lastly.... If I beg and whine enough will you let me see any of OBAM before it goes to print? I really would love to toss some of the stuff from that and sorcery and the Fey into a campaign that is currently ongoing at my apartment- that material will likely add consistency to our campaign world and make it more enjoyable when hoing from one campaign to another.

[Jake Norwood]

just out of curiousity, are any of the characters to be generated for this using insight points from previous characters?

I actually wasn't planning on it, although a bonus A or B priority *might* be in the works. I'll talk to them about it.

and furthermore Jake, when you created the whole riddle of souls deal did you have an explanation in mind or was it another one of those things you prposefully left unresolved like Uglub?

No idea. It's a riddle to me, too. Unlike the Riddle of Souls, however (or the Riddle of Steel, for that matter), I *do* have my own take on Uglub--a very well developed and old one...but it's just mine. You have your own Uglub now.

And lastly.... If I beg and whine enough will you let me see any of OBAM before it goes to print? I really would love to toss some of the stuff from that and sorcery and the Fey into a campaign that is currently ongoing at my apartment- that material will likely add consistency to our campaign world and make it more enjoyable when hoing from one campaign to another.

Yeah, probably.

Jake

[Silanthous]

If i beg an whine enough, will you pay a little more attention to getting Sorcery and the Fey Printed and out on shelves? couse that is the book i really want to see. also i might need to find a different way to get TROS, gonna give wizards a chance to get it, but if they can't i still need my own copy. all i currently have is chapter 6 in one HUGE file on my computer. not much to work with campaign wise.......

Also i would really like to hear more about this campaign you are running, is sounds really intresting. Also i would like to ask what is going on with Uglub? you say he hates the fey, and i have never really read the core book, ao i don't know. But in the game i played in, Uglub gratefully accepted my gifted Half-Fey into his services as a member of his elite sorcerer's corps. Is this one of the objects that can be freely altered, or do you prefer certain aspects to be held constant?

[Jake Norwood]

Well, my take is anything can be modified to taste, ESPECIALLY the setting.

As for printing SATF, well... we're working on it. There was a major (and I mean MAJOR) setback in its production, so we might see TFOB first.

Sorry Robert...

Jake

[Valamir]

Well that's good news to me.  TFoB I really want.  Fey and Sorcery...I'll be buying primarily to support the line...I doubt I'll even read it completely.

[Irmo]

As for printing SATF, well... we're working on it. There was a major (and I mean MAJOR) setback in its production, so we might see TFOB first.

Anything any of us could do to help make up for the setback? (Well, aside maybe of buying a second and third copy of TROS to generate additional funds ;) )

[Jake Norwood]

Finding the delinquent author would be good... it was largely finished, at least text wise, before it ALL vanished. No biggy...just a setback. I'd rather see TFOB out first. I've even considered doing Sorcery and the Fey as two PDFs and then printing them as a set next year sometime.

Jake

[Jake Norwood]

We made up the characters tonight. It's going to be a hum-dinger...I'm *really* excited. Allready I've got a page full of material for the "Fey" portion of SATF...cool stuff.

We have three Fey-siehe:
Earta (my wonderful wife): A very young fey, only 50-ish years old, who is enamored with playing, frolicking, and finds humans fascinating.
Shannon (our main female playtester that isn't my wife): A not as young fey, at a ripe 76 yrs old. She is even more fascinated by humans, as she watched one drown when she was younger. She had never seen anything so like her die before, and even though he cried out to her for help, she did nothing. Now she has vowed never to refuse mercy to someone who asks it.
Ben Moore (our resident art guy): Fey bladeslinger/world-traveller. He is a lladwr amongst the elves, or "one who kills." He, decades ago, had Uglub (before he was Uglub) at the end of his blade and extended mercy. Uglub was later responsible for the death of Ben's lover. He has since vowed never to extend mercy to any foe in battle, and to always fight to the death.
Stu (the other resident swordsman): a gremilin with a drive to steal the Riddle of Steel from Ben as soon as he finds it, and with a destiny to lay waste to an entire city. Troublemaker. 3' tall. Green. Oh yeah. He disguises himself as a dog and flies (in that form) thanks to a pair of formalized spells.
Megan (Stu's woman): A draconian-looking pixie (seelie) with a penchant for stealing keys. About the size of a cat.

Allready the group dynamic is fun and all the characters feed off of each other (thanks to character histories and simultaneously created SAs).  Everyone is also a magic-user (each with a hanful of formalized spells allready), which is going to lead to some real chaos, I'm sure.

Some things I'm looking at doing for SATF:
How to assemble an all-siehe campaign.
Specialized Siehe character creation stuff, like skill packets based on "type" of siehe.
Sample formalized spells that are common in the Siehe world--especially glamours.
Combat for midgets and pixies.
"Hedge" magic and ways of making siehe magic more mythical and less apocolyptical (although the current TROS magic is perfect for your average Fey...).
"Build-a-seelie" charts, for fun and NPCs.

Anyway, it's all still far away, but at least here's proof that I play TROS too!

Jake

[Spartan]

Anyway, it's all still far away, but at least here's proof that I play TROS too!

Sounds very cool, Jake.  Keep us posted on how it turns out!

-Mark