I am developing a female elf for a friend's Pathfinder campaign, and I'm looking at implementing a cursed/blessed eye. I want to keep it mainly as a secret, at least until she wakes up from recovering after being retrieved by the party after being initially introduced as a prisoner of sorts.
I haven't figured out what blessing or curse I want, but I've come up with at least a curse that removes low light vision and gives her immunity to bright light at the least, which would result in striking heterochromia of sorts, possibly even including sclera colour and pupil colour/shape.
I've been thinking of hiding her eye with an eyepatch, blindfold, or some kind of mask or visor that she would wear most of the time. I would think though that I would have to find an actual game item to use that is close enough to what I'm looking for, but it's a little hard to search.
Any suggestions on blessings/curses, and how to hide it from the party, hopefully in a cool-looking or mysterious fashion?
It's not her original eye. It's a magic item that she uses instead of a glass eye. Now just go look at what kind of magic item you could make with a metal or glass marble that would still be useful.
Josiah Jenkins
For her eyes, all peoples apear naked no matter if they wear clothes or not.
Nope. I would draw her, but trying to decide on her gear and items first and then draw.
Luke Ramirez
The Eye allows her to "see" magic but its prone to bleed and kind of hurts.
As for a way to hide it, just an eye latch or headband. A character like this would actively try to conceal it, and few things are worse than a PC fishing for attention with an obvious concealment.
Liam Ross
Sounds interesting. Not sure about the bleeding/hurting bit though.
When I mentioned mask or visor, I was thinking more of an upper face type thing, probably with some sort of shutter functionality for switching between covering either eye. Of course, there's no such item so I'm not sure how I could implement something like that.
Liam Miller
That's Spongebob, user
Jaxson Scott
Sounds like it would draw too much attention, at which point you may as well not bother covering it at all.
What's wrong with a simple eye patch?
Austin Reed
Cool/mysterious factor. But I guess the eyepatch thing could work just as well.
Nathan Murphy
At first I thought this was an amusing post about knowing where the OP picture is from. Then I realized it was a genuine reply to a shit thread.
Aaron Myers
What if I told you that it's neither?
Ryder Bennett
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bentley Martin
>OP makes a genuine thread asking for help >an user says its shit
Levi Adams
>Cool/mysterious factor
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. Having some conspicuous doodad or helmet you never take off only attracts attention. Its obvious you're hiding something. This will go one of two ways: either the rest of the party keeps trying to remove it, or they just don't care and roll their eyes whenever you bring it up. It's on the same level as taking a long swig from your hip flask. There's also the fact someone who refuses to remove their helmet will constantly arouse suspicion from NPCs.
Stop watching anime.
Ryder Gutierrez
Eyepatch/headband it is then.
Robert Taylor
>Stop watching anime. Never
Brody Taylor
How would that work? Would clothing not be visible on skin contact or or not visible at all? What about weapons slung or worn on the body like a scabbard or bow? Do tools count? How about armour? Illusion magic shaped as clothing? So many questions.
Aiden Richardson
Ever look at 3.5 grafts?
David Bennett
Kind of hard when there's no actual prosthetic eyes in Pathfinder. There's arm and leg prosthetics though IIRC.
Was an old one I liked for fireball, also you can enchant eye slot items, why not get a death rune on it or something. Then if it's read, bam save or die.
Ian James
Sounds interesting.
My idea was that my character has her eye blessed/cursed or replaced when she was younger, perhaps with something useful, or detrimental to her (or others), causing her to cover it up unless needed.
Wear big ol', thick ol', dorky ol, murky ol' glasses. Lenses half an inch thick should be able to hide weird eyes pretty well.
Zachary Hughes
Or goggles.
Nolan Walker
Daness was hotter desu.
Gabriel Adams
This is from an old 1e homebrew
Psionic Item: Eye of the Phoenix
A black sphere, that fits into an eyesocket, empty or otherwise. In a Psionic character, it drains Psionic points to power two effects -- Heal/Harm ( a black beam shoots forth and strikes a target. Healing or Harming is chosen by the bearer.
If the bearer has no Psionic points left, or is non-psionic, it will drain hit points to power the effect, even up to the death the bearer, leaving a dead, shriveled husk, which, in 1-4 weeks, will burst into flame, and a new form will rise (roll up a new character). No items are left behind other than the Eye, which falls out of the former bearer's socket, leaving it empty. The Eye is inert with regards to that character, forever.
I forget the number of Psionic/hit points it drained, but it was hefty. It had to be covered with a lens or eyepatch made our of black opal, or the character might accidentally shoot off a ray without meaning to, with a 50% chance of it being either baleful or beneficial.
Brandon Perry
>those dom scenes Got new fetishes from that game
Jaxon Martinez
Spooky.
Jaxon Gonzalez
FUCKING CHUUNI SHITS GET OUT OF MY TRADITIONAL GAMES
I wish I knew. Probably some kind of tight stockings but the diagonal strips are certainly different from most normal clothing.
Nicholas Brown
Heterochromia is fucking stupid mary sue horse shit. Do you want wings and neon hair as well?
Wyatt Baker
Nah.
Also heterochromia is cute, fuck your couch.
Chase Reed
It's pathetic weeb nonsense and a transparent attempt to try to inject physically distinguishing factors onto characters which are all drawn the fucking same
Evan Reed
Then how do you propose that such a permanent blessing/curse is to be displayed, other than showing nothing at all in the character’s descriptions or art?
Christopher Garcia
A tattoo or scar.
Christian Lee
I mean you're right about the attracting attention but if you rp it so that it doesn't attract attention and it like a legitimate eye problem it'll be more suprising when you reveal.
Lucas Torres
Which would make sense to at least have the eyepatch.
Colton Thompson
It's still fluff that could be useful.
Brandon Richardson
Arguable, but the high elf had better writing. Eh, "writing".
Hey, it has tanks. It's more Veeky Forums than half of the threads in this board, I dare to say!
Jordan Nelson
Why are things (eye magic/types and such) so difficult to find?
Owen Cooper
They have elemental augment items, for the eye socket. That could work if you use those rules/pricing.
Jose Evans
Scrap the elf, make a Vistani.
Owen Kelly
Have it so both eyes are either obsidian black or blindingly white. Or one of each. That way it's not the bog standard "My OC has two different colored eyes!! She's so unique!!" And atleast somewhat original.
Isaiah Butler
What would the abilities be? Backstory? (Curse/blessing, effects on the elf girl, etc.)
Aiden White
Also, the plan was to style her as a Nordic-type elf, red hair, freckles, etc. and probably originating from a forest who moved to a city at some point. Likely she’ll be blessed/cursed either while alone, or if blessed, possibly during a ceremony, either as her first class or second/current.
I haven’t committed to anything yet, so details can certainly change while I am looking at possibilities (totally new to bog-standard D&D/PF worlds) and discussing individual elements such as this so then at least I could understand what is actually available and what could be done with fluffing and implementing abilities.
>OP makes a genuine thread Are you sure you're posting in the thread you think you are? This is another "OP uses a Veeky Forums topic as a thin excuse to post an image from a lewd source" thread. That's all it is. Nothing in the OP happened, he just wanted to post that image.
Tyler Russell
My two cents. You can always have her wear an eyepatch or the like, but have the eye below be missing. Just that. It's neatly scooped out, it's healed ages ago but it's still not pretty. If asked, it's the result of an accident or an encounter with a wild animal. But someone, maybe her parents, maybe some cult, maybe herself, took out that eye for a reason. Something's supposed to fit in there - and if the characters come upon for example a little round stone, no one's going to be able to interfere before she's put it in for the sake of her own or her family's ambitions.
