That sounds cool. My son was bouncing a similar idea off me a couple of days ago. I put him off hoping to do a little research first. Is this based on any 'real' stories or is this something you're making up right now. Do you have any ideas on how you want to do it?
This comes from the G-men, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Specifically Little Red Riding Hood and similiar stories. It was only logical that they would be fairies and have some disguise feature similiar to to the stories. In one of those stories they would dupe goats by covering their claws and fur with chalk, so i.e. they make their own disguises.
The skin suit thing is partially inspired by
The Village and partial by the Red Court. Why should vamps get all the cool powers?
Why don't they just use Glamours?
To scare the S&#% out of my players with
Predator flashbacks....
I want them to be like the Wolves in the story, disguised as long as possible to lure in their prey and then to wolf out and pounce. Looking at the stories you could run them so they prefer Virgins and probably rape them and wait until they give birth to a "litter" before they eat them.
You could also run them as just Fairy Bipedal Wolves with a disguise feature if you don't want to go that dark.
The hunting in packs comes from logic also. The stories are traditionally about Lone Wolves, but if you want to scare players you use packs since wolves hunt in packs.
But you can also make them scarier....
I toyed with the idea that their skin suits can also be like
body armor and
the suits are only vulnerable to stone rather than cold iron. This comes from the stories that always ends with someone getting eaten and then the food getting rescued from the stomach and the stomach being filled with stones so the wolf would drown in the well when he went for water. Though if you think about it, if it's a fairy, its ectoplasmic body in the real world would dissolve if it was thrown into a body of water which keeps with lore.
An Emissary of Power representing the internet, god I love this forum.
This idea came from Neil Gaiman's
American Gods which has new Gods emerging like The Internet, Johnny Appleseed, etc. My brother thinks that old gods are always becoming dormant and new gods are always being born.
Though the collective unconscious and the Akashic Records would also work.
