Café de Nuit

I think a good default answer to any potential mechanical shenanigans with the Midnight Market is "You can do it, but it will cost you." As you say, economics abhors a vacuum, and chances are good that whatever the PCs come up with, some merchant or other has already had that idea.

It's the Midnight Market -- make it a service you have to buy. Sure, you can try to find a little corner to doze for a while, but even if you find one you might end up with some very freaky dreams that don't grant any real rest (AKA, no healing, no spells regained). But there's some kind of hostel, ...

Eh. Some of it is because, honestly, I don't like them all that much by this point. Keep in mind, I wrote this ten years ago, and looking back at it tends to make me cringe. (I was so very emo). The other bit is that I'm fairly busy these days -- I teach, I write, I have a book coming out at the end...

Well, here you go: http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/foru ... f=1&t=5849

Let me think... honestly, have you found the original thread for this? It's somewhere in the old archives, and King Hob would be there.

Oh, this died a hideous death years ago -- I nearly fell off my chair when I saw someone repost it. You can find a couple of the fey in the latest QtRs -- The Midnight Market, Cecil, Brum, and the Elegist. I might send some more in, though I think the remainder are generally less interesting.

To be fair, the setting as is is pretty much written with all humans, and the fantasy races lobbed into Darkon or Sithicus. It would be a very different story if we had, say, a couple of Dwarf-centric domains in the middle of the Core. I'd also say that while Aasimar and Tieflings and what-have-you ...

QtR 24 has an article detailing three special fey characters, one of whom takes the form of a cat. As a fervent cat-lover, I am obligated to recommend that... VRS: Doppelgangers fits with it quite well. The other extra gazetteers are also helpful resources. I love all of NeoTiamat's re-imaginings o...

I did indeed! I'm actually running the game right now -- I ended up taking the advice further up-thread and basing it on Fear Itself rather than Trail of Cthulhu (dumped the occupation abilities). Also cooked up a fairly modest magic system (really just the Trail of Cthulhu/Rough Magicks thing with ...

Don't forget The Dresden Files ! :) ...after Changes I kind of want to... Faerie Tale by Raymond E Feist (1988) . That was my first encounter with the Fey in a horror tale. Hah. I was actually thinking of Feist, but figured that was too obscure a story to mention. Actually, I think Feist's story is...

Thank you all for your very kind words. :lucas: It warms (or chills) the heart to know that these little creeps from my distant past were appreciated. I love 'the Three Faeries'! Some great plot hooks and ideas there. Cecil is my favourite out of the three. Brum is sympathetic, the Elegist is weird ...

One of my regrets is that there was never a netbook compilation of the other, more minor FoS members that populated the Evening with the Fraternity. I mean, after all, a campaign typically needs rather more rank-and-file than it does high Umbra. I suppose by this point too much of the info has passe...

For the record, Pathfinder's Horror Adventures has a Waxwork Creature template. They're still a bit geared towards lower APL parties, but you can certainly make CR 10-12 Waxworks with a little effort.

They even have neat things like sentient waxworks and waxwork candles.

I have no intelligent commentary to make other than 'damn, that guy has been through a lot'. Still, I voted A and C, because really, C needs more love.

I've always been relatively blase regarding CLs -- I tend to treat it as less 'difference in century' and more 'backwoods pseudo-Balkan nowhere and advanced, near-steampunk Western Core'. Anyway, since the PCs are going to be in Barovia 90% of the time differing CLs aren't going to be a huge issue. ...