If there was a race of sentient creatures that all acted as if they belonged in a kind of shared shakespeare universe, what traits might they posses mechanically? I play pathfinder but anything is fine.
They are also dragonfly people.
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It really depends on which play you are basing on.
For example, if we are going for Macbeth, people would be very prone to backstabbing each other but they would not be mindless murderhobos at the same time or we can go the Hamlet route so we would have rather passive but intelligent and melancholic beings.
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What if it's both simultaneously?
Things would get out of hand really fast. We are going to have really high functioning sociopaths ala Othella but we are also going to have very powerful wizards ala Tempest.
Emotions would be really important for these beings. Love, hatred, lust, fear, anger etc. those will be the main motivators for them.
Also, there is going to be a shit ton of death.
So a species of dragonfly people who are very highly strung, very intelligent and sociopathic with good magician potential, rife with politics?
They would be also very into lengthy monologues with themselves. Occasionally they would make deals with witches and such.
However, they would be the best lovers of the universe. I suppose no other race could feel the sensation of love so burningly other than these dragonflies.
What sort of mechanical benefit and downside would being a highly strung sociopath give you?
These are very helpful, thank you!
As far as roleplaying them, broad strokes and devious schemes. Shakespearean characters are always plotting something. Hamlet is plotting vengeance against his Uncle. His Uncle is plotting against him. Cassius is plotting to get Brutus in on a plot.
Make them seem over the top and dramatic. Look at a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Faeries in particular, Oberons court is a great way to look at these dragonfly people.
Mechanically this could be them flitting about, dancing around their problems before finally actually enacting them. This also makes them very quickly rush into things without thinking as well, broad strokes for every little thing. Every thing is some life changing and important new experience that will remain with them forever.
Romeo and Juliet being an example.
Essentislly theyrr over dramatic and scheming little fucks
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