Scintillae on my Tabletop

Tabletop gaming miscellanea, character sheets, word building thoughts, and so forth

[takenforpomegranate]

“Brown eyes are so plain and ugly you can’t even compare them to gems like emerald and saph-”

Stop.

Carnelian

Cairngorm

Cassiterite

Smoky Quartz

Zircon (brown)

Citrine

Diaspore

Dravite

Enstatite

Hessonite

That’s not even all of GORGEOUS BROWN GEMS THAT EXIST IN THIS WORLD. Just like there are a lot of beautiful brown gems they’re a lot of BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES. BROWN IS A GORGEOUS COLOR. Start treating it like one. 

[notgeorgelucas]

Is it sad that I initially thought this was a Steven Universe-related post?

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

Thank you! I always need more gem adjectives for the descriptions of my princesses.

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

I feel super guilty about getting stalled on the Princess project, but I did wind up leveling Nyx from earlier, so I'm going to post her new sheet just so everyone knows I am still alive.

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

Sloooooow progress..

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

OK, stage two is slowing down as I'm working on sheet design. I'm still an Illustrator n00b.

I'm planning on a cover sheet that doubles as a table tent (hence the dotted lines), using the bottom half for the quick reference stuff (characterisics, skills, list of features/proficiencies/spells) and then having a full character sheet with backstory and full feature and spell descriptions to go wityh it.

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

And the rest of the dolls.

Paladin: Meghan | Ranger: Rose Rogue: Tag (Ethelinda) | Sorcerer: Eirlys Warlock: Phoeba | Wizard: Gillian

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

I have... neglgibile artistic ability. Also negligible budget for character art. So I messed with a princess doll-maker.

Barbarian (Ghita) | Bard (Oriel) Cleric (Elyssa) | Druid (Bianca) Fighter (Yennenga) | Monk (Maitreyi)

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

And holy cow, the last of the roughs are in. Gillian, of course, being the presumtive next archmage. So now it's on to fine tuning and getting everything matched up...

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

I'll be tweaking the patron quite a bit. Phoebe's parents had the sense to invite all the faeries to her christening (cf. Sleeping Beauty) so she just got all the gifts. I planned to add this as part of the pact: Your clothes, hair, and anything else on your person will rearrange itself as if via the mending cantrip or an unseen servant were performing cosmetic adjustments. This activity does not count against your spells, but also cannot be triggered deliberately or prevented. The effect can correct as much as a disguise kit as far as concealing bruises, blemishes or other marks, and maintaining perfect, unsmudged makeup. I may dock her the ability to be intimidating, only charming, on the abilities that give the option, as a balancing measure. I love that her pet is smarter than she is.

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

Getting into Sorcerer (and Warlock, next) I'm in new territory again. I'm going to be revamping the meta part of the draconic bloodline and instead make it being descended from a line of Witch Queens. There's no need to mess with the mechanics, though, so I'm leaving it in the rough. If you think I pulled a lot from Elsa from Frozen on this... well, yeah.

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

Tag's archetype gave me a little trouble, in the sense that she really has no reason to be a Thief specifically, because, well, she's a princess. Assassin is right out, and Magical Tricketer is (a) a poor match for the character and (b) adds a lot of complication. Much the same way I hybridized Ghita's totem, I hybridized Thief and Assassin into Spy because I am lazy and don't care to write up a whole new archetye. Not that it matters, because I don't actually plan to take these characters past 4th level, but the principle applies. For the 3rd level boost, Fast Hands and Second Story work (as per Thief), at 9th and 13th, jump over and take Infiltration Experience and Impostor (Assassin). For 17th, back to Thief for Thieves' Reflexes. Though, I could also see putting together something custom with preposterous levels of Insight/Interrigation instead.

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

The former ranger princess was an elf, because I was having trouble with archetypes. As I am already having to bend character classes a bit, I figured I could revamp to avoid needing a nonhuman. So this is bascially Briar Rose (see "Sleeping Beauty"). who made it to 16 raised in the forest by the master of the hunt so the birth curse fizzled and she could go back to her family.

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

Aaand we're past the midway mark for the initial roughs. Meghan I at least have a feel for.

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And here's another new character rather than a conversion. Monk and Druid were definately the two hardest classes to make work. I figure she was smuggled out before a coup and had been raised in a remote monastery somewhere.

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

Here's another unprecedented character. As pitched to me by a friend, she's more of her father's right hand, more a theoretician than a practical fighter.

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

Biana's the first of these who's not a conversion, and she's going to need some more work. Druids don't bend so well into being princesses, so I'm envisioning something where royalty is bound to the land. I need to think more about her personality and may want to swap out the background feature. Still, it's a roughed out beginning.

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

Why can't you be more like Elyssa?

Cleric is even more princessy than bard, really. This has her reasonably well roughed out.

[scintillaeonmytabletop]

And here's the second princess. Bards are pretty girly, so that was not too hard. I expect to use the Princess background on some other characters as well.