I have been avoiding the world of fairies and leprechauns for a few decades while I have been role-playing Tunnels and Trolls. I mean the jumping from one scale to another, lions in hobb-size and above, to rats and large cats in the shorter. The explicit magic all over the scenario and play, it can be worse then Willow from Buffy, the Vampy Tramper in a serious binge. Well my courage has been growing, and my notes are starting to get somewhere as well as the fact that I have found just the right role-player.
A friend, codenamed "Rook," is one of the most talented role-players, GM and Player-wise, and he has just started playing T&T. His first character is of course a leprechaun. He happens to be a master strategist, and most of you serious D&D heds here will understand that leprechauns are to T&T what dwarves are to any edition of D&D. As it happens, we're now starting to move out of the rules exploration/definition phase of the campaign into the more general exploration phase.
Now while my world of Elder is awesome, when you have players as skilled as the ones I do, including Peryton here and Rook, the GM has to start looking for a special angle to keep these big heads entertained. So, I decided to get more into the wild side of the cosm. The place where leprechauns, gremlins, imps and fairies and fairies hang out. Dealing with chaotic magic as well as poetry more often than grid squares.
Popular culture is helping me out with plenty of inspiration. The movie Jumper besides being the second day of acting school for Hayden Christensen is a ggod movie exploring the "physics" of teleportation, or 'Wink-Wing" in the parlance of T&T. My oft-times, co-creator Ksyd117, here at the Bomb, has been writing his own scenarios designed with fairies and leprechauns in mind. Tonight Peryton and I took a break and played City of Heroes, and ended up in Croatoa, a part of Paragon City where wookie-reindeer and red cap thug elves prove as fatal as any ninja or hard hat-wearing henchmen in coveralls to the average superhero-- my oldest character Captain Scrappy, dressed, as always, appropiately for the occassion, led the charge in exploring the region. And Mary Roach's non-fiction book Spook, a study into the Study of the Paranormal, has given a modern take on what people daydream about when feeling rather whimsical.
Things are coming together nicely. I expect to do some seriously whimiscal yarn-spinning this autumn and winter.
Tags: Leprechauns Fairy T&T PerytonGamers CityofHeroes
