From that guy who brought you The Dragon, it’s . . . The Unicorn! Should cover everything from Narnian soldier-impaling badasses to Lady Amalthea to Lady Raincorn. Again, feedback is appreciated!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx6dAIX5ahSlUkd3RUQtakVhenc/view?usp=sharing
I haven’t even read it and I love it.
Lots of very good stuff here! At first blush, a few things that stand out as perhaps needing a second look:
The Noble race strikes me as too strong. +1 Ongoing is a very big deal.
I feel like the damage die should perhaps be a d6. It feels more like a cleric than a strictly front line fighter, at least at the start.
With all the moves that expend the healing ability of your horn as a cost, I think you should have some way of actively recovering that ability besides making camp. You can end up losing most of your abilities after a single 7-9 roll as is, which seems pretty harsh.
Keep it up, this and the dragon are pretty quality!
Does it do Rarity?
Drive: Fabulosity – Restore tarnished beauty to its proper state. ;)
Cloven Hooves are split hoofed, buddy – Horses are just Hoofed.
True! But it looks like unicorns were often visualized as having cloven hooves back in the day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn#Heraldry
Which kinda makes sense, since cloven hoofed critters are the only ones with horns.
“Historical” and Peter S Beagle unicorns are both cloven-hoofed. Horse-with-glued-on-horn is mostly a movie expedient, I think
That being said, enough horsey unicorns exist in pop culture to warrant an alternative move name
Do you have other playbook in mind, the likes oftalking dog, magical cat, sphinx, harpy, kappa, gargoyle?
Paride Papadia Talking beast could be good! I was more interested in making play books for common (cliche even!) fantasy protagonists than, say, a kappa. I would struggle to find an adventuring motive for something that typically sits in a river eating cucumbers/children! I frequently use them as antagonists, though.
Hey, yeah – Fair enough ^.^
This reminds me . . . I need to revisit my Kappa on the DW Codex one of these days. It’s a terribly wordy entry.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx6dAIX5ahSlQzhId1htUGY0YUk/view?usp=sharing
Updated! James Etheridge , I ended up keeping the damage die the same, because for the life of me I couldn’t think of any instances in fantasy fiction of somebody surviving a unicorn-inflicted wound. Amalthea killed a dragon with hers, and she was far from warlike. I envision the unicorn as more like a Paladin and less like a Cleric, if that makes sense.