Fwurg

[Pixie]

I'd like to add a canon race, Zeltrons http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Zeltron/Legends, which I intend to use for some role-play characters.

I made a proposal for them on the wiki, link: https://www.fwurg.net/dokuwiki/ic:Zeltron. Are they ok like this?

[Brend]

They look good so far. There's three things that jump out at me:

I would go with "They produce pheromones, which enhances their attractiveness and likeability to many other species." (instead of "They produce potent pheromones, which enhances their attractiveness and likeability.") Just to soften the "absoluteness" of the sentence a little—it is up to the player on the receiving end of the pheromones to determine how their character is affected by them, and the original sentences seems to make an absolute statement of how powerful and universal the effect is.

Their emotional telepathy gives them two things that make it difficult/tricky to roleplay with them.

First off, reading emotions means that a Zeltron Character IC can read the emotion of another Character IC, but this only works if the player of the other Character OOCly makes this information available (since it is usually internal to their character)—the description of a politician "looking angry" while making a speech says very little about their emotions, so this might lead to other some failing telepathy (where the Zeltron character is described as "picking up powerful anger" and the other player basically goes "What huh?!"), or to a posting delay while you try to get the real emotional context from the other player.

Secondly, projecting emotions onto others comes with the same caveat as the pheromones: the receiving character's player is the one that determines how this affects their character, which in many cases may boil down to "nothing, 'cause I don't feel like it". This works differently if it is described as more of an information transfer, i.e., a way for a Zeltron to more intimately and accurately share their feelings of the moment with someone else when words are not enough, for example the joy and wonder they feel when looking at a truly beautiful painting.


Regardless of the way you want to go with the emotional transfer, if the pheromones are "deabsolutized" they are fine with me.