What up!!! ✨🐧✨

Things are awfully wintry out, huh?? 🌨❄

I’ve had not one, but TWO different people I know say that they want to play Golden Sky Stories – the tabletop RPG I’m currently enamored with – as a penguin character.  It seems so appropriate for the current season to work on putting that character type together!!

So, I did!  I hope this serves as a nice custom character type~ 🐧  I’m not sure about balance, but I tried to match Wonder costs for the powers to similar existing ones, and the same for Weakness/Additional Power matches.

Rather than being 100% custom, this penguin character type mostly combines Powers belonging to the existing bird and fish henge, sometimes with snowy twists.  The Snow Song power, for instance, is identical to the bird’s Wind Song, but with mention of cold and snowflakes in the wind’s wake.  The Pet/Home weakness/power is copied over from dog henge, and I borrowed Glutton from the tanuki and matched it with a fish weakness that had the same Wonder cost.  The only things I completely made up myself are the Hunker Down power (because when I think of penguins, I think of them settled cozily into themselves and weathering the cold), and the Li’L Backpack additional power (because if you’re a pet penguin in Japan, you need a li’l backpack!).  Other than that, the rest are as if bird and fish were combined into one animal – which serves the purpose for a penguin quite nicely! ❄

Here is also some art work I quickly put together, to demonstrate that a half-transformed penguin henge would have flippers and webbed bird feet~

Here is the page of Penguin Powers (man, I love that phrase – PENGUIN POWERS!):

And this is the page of available Weaknesses and Additional Powers:

Click on the images of the pages to view them fullsize!!  I did my best to recreate the look of the official pages, but my editing is slightly messy (you can see the grey square backgrounds behind the text blocking out what was originally written, for instance).  I even drew the penguin icon with katakana behind it for the top-left corner of the Powers page~

Hope this is of use to someone out there! 🤗

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Tuesday, November 27th, 2018   6:33 pm
Tags: Golden Sky Stories, custom henge, henge, tabletop role playing game, tabletop roleplaying game, tabletop rpg, trpg, ttrpg.
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