So I have been trying to branch out and play character races I generally don't play but when it comes to fairy I can't help but go in a silly memey direction like "Tinker-Galute" the fairy barbarian or something like that.
While I don't mind silly character ideas I do prefer playing character with a more serious and believable angle to them even if there is a bit of humour in their origin, but for some reason I kind of struggle when it comes to fairy, for some reason my mind goes either towards something ridiculous or bland and tropey, perhaps it is just my ingrained perception of what a fairy is so I thought I might reach out online and ask the people if they have ever played a fairy and what their backstory was?
So what fairy characters have you played and what were their backstories?
Also I know technically the fairy playable race for 5e stipulates that the size is 'small' but screw that I am not interested in playing a gnome with wings so I would homebrew and go tiny, yeah I know there are weird balance issues with sizes smaller than small and larger than medium but I wish the designers had the balls to just try and make it work instead of going "this is a playable minotaur but it is just a regular sized minotaur instead of the proper large sized minotaur!"
Once - long ago - there was a little sunflower seed. It sat right in the middle of the big yellow flower, and it was just happy and excited, because it knew that the sun would shine, and the summer was warm, and soon the little seed would fall to the ground and become a new, beautiful sunflower.
It was all but giddy with restrained excitement, and all was good and wonderful with the world.
Only it wasn't. Not everything was good and wonderful. A terrible draught hit the land that year, and it was hot, and dry, merciless sun and scouring winds blasting a dry landscape of cracked earth and dusty riverbeds.
The little seed knew none of this - but eventually, it fell, with the tiniest of little sounds, onto the dry, desolate ground. It could not take root. There was no water. It could not grow or flower.
But the little seed was not discouraged. It was full of hope and happiness and wonder, and it would become a beautiful sunflower.
It clung to hope even as doubt set it. It clung to hope as it dried out in the brutal sun. It clung to hope, right until it's tiny, tiny spark of life gave in, and the little seed died. And in that moment, something magical happened: There was a very small, but bright and colorful explosion, and *POOF* - Sunflower the Faerie was born. Just about tall enough to stand upright in the palm of a grown man, she was a bright and happy thing. Also, even from her very first moments, she magic flowed in her, and she could channel the sun, and heat and brightness, to entertain - or, as things would have it, to burn someone to cinders.
Sunflower is a sorcerer focused on fire and radiant damage. And light, and so on. You know.
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So I have been trying to branch out and play character races I generally don't play but when it comes to fairy I can't help but go in a silly memey direction like "Tinker-Galute" the fairy barbarian or something like that.
While I don't mind silly character ideas I do prefer playing character with a more serious and believable angle to them even if there is a bit of humour in their origin, but for some reason I kind of struggle when it comes to fairy, for some reason my mind goes either towards something ridiculous or bland and tropey, perhaps it is just my ingrained perception of what a fairy is so I thought I might reach out online and ask the people if they have ever played a fairy and what their backstory was?
So what fairy characters have you played and what were their backstories?
Also I know technically the fairy playable race for 5e stipulates that the size is 'small' but screw that I am not interested in playing a gnome with wings so I would homebrew and go tiny, yeah I know there are weird balance issues with sizes smaller than small and larger than medium but I wish the designers had the balls to just try and make it work instead of going "this is a playable minotaur but it is just a regular sized minotaur instead of the proper large sized minotaur!"
Once - long ago - there was a little sunflower seed. It sat right in the middle of the big yellow flower, and it was just happy and excited, because it knew that the sun would shine, and the summer was warm, and soon the little seed would fall to the ground and become a new, beautiful sunflower.
It was all but giddy with restrained excitement, and all was good and wonderful with the world.
Only it wasn't. Not everything was good and wonderful. A terrible draught hit the land that year, and it was hot, and dry, merciless sun and scouring winds blasting a dry landscape of cracked earth and dusty riverbeds.
The little seed knew none of this - but eventually, it fell, with the tiniest of little sounds, onto the dry, desolate ground. It could not take root. There was no water. It could not grow or flower.
But the little seed was not discouraged. It was full of hope and happiness and wonder, and it would become a beautiful sunflower.
It clung to hope even as doubt set it. It clung to hope as it dried out in the brutal sun. It clung to hope, right until it's tiny, tiny spark of life gave in, and the little seed died. And in that moment, something magical happened: There was a very small, but bright and colorful explosion, and *POOF* - Sunflower the Faerie was born. Just about tall enough to stand upright in the palm of a grown man, she was a bright and happy thing. Also, even from her very first moments, she magic flowed in her, and she could channel the sun, and heat and brightness, to entertain - or, as things would have it, to burn someone to cinders.
Sunflower is a sorcerer focused on fire and radiant damage. And light, and so on. You know.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.