no Leprechauns?, wo be the wee folk Options

[Daylen]

so out of all the critters listed and even ones specifically made out of Irish folklore (even the Nac Mac Feegles) but no Leprechauns. Anyone else bothered by this?

[Method]

They would likely be a stylized spirit of man or possibly a task spirit. Alternately you could just use the rules for Domovoi with different fluff and the Wealth power.

[Snow_Fox]

right, if you look at folk lore of faeries there are a great many small spirits that are similar in appearance and behavior but have diffenret names in differnet areas. For example the Knockers, Cornish fey who live in mines are very simialr to German Wichlen, Welsh Coblynaus and French Gommes.

Similaly the russian Domovoi is pretty close to the Danish nis, Scottish brownie and english Hob. Heck there's even a similar chinese spirit called Choa Phum Phi (fee fi foe fum?)

The point is that many differneces in spirts are more on how they are seen by big folk, not necessarily themselves. So possibly the leprecaun is out there, but modern metahuanity has just failed to recognize it as such because they've already slapped a label on it.

OR

if they truly are spirits of magic and air then possibly there are more wonders to come as the mana level rises and perhaps more such creatures return from legend.

[Ancient History]

I can't think of leprechauns without Warwick Davis these days.

[Method]

You just had to go there, didn't you AH? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[wind_in_the_ston...]

They're a race, in my world. Of course the only one that PCs have ever run into was an immortal...

[crash2029]

I'd bundle them into the same group as pixies.

[Medicineman]

to German Wichlen

Welll its Wichtel (or Wichtelmännchen the End 'männchen means little or tiny man) in German (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

he who dances in German
Medicineman

[hobgoblin]

I'd bundle them into the same group as pixies.

i think they make take a offense to that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

for some reason i keep connecting them to this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm_Meaney

maybe because of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_L...the_Leprechauns

[Wesley Street]

There was a spot illio of leprechaun slaves in the Tir na Nog sourcebook. But, to my knowledge, they were never statted in any edition.

[Daylen]

Leprechaun slaves? Wo be to the Slavers when the Lep uprising comes...

and Davis is the coolest Lep ever! I just wish his movies weren't such Heroic Tragedies, it would be nice for the hero to have won once at least.

[BRodda]

so out of all the critters listed and even ones specifically made out of Irish folklore (even the Nac Mac Feegles) but no Leprechauns. Anyone else bothered by this?

Looks like I'll add Leprechauns to my list of things to stat out. Should be easy.

[Larsine]

Similaly the russian Domovoi is pretty close to the Danish nis, Scottish brownie and english Hob. Heck there's even a similar chinese spirit called Choa Phum Phi (fee fi foe fum?)

The pixie/brownie/hob is called nisse in Danish. Nis is a name which 863 males was called in 2009.

Lars

[Draco18s]

i think they make take a offense to that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

for some reason i keep connecting them to this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm_Meaney

maybe because of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_L...the_Leprechauns

Made me think of this movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Luck_of_t...%282001_film%29

[kanislatrans]

Made me think of this movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Luck_of_t...%282001_film%29

Gee, don't know how I missed that one. probably came out at the same time as the Meatballs 2 and I was still puking from the experience. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[Megu]

I just pretty much took the suggestion above of slightly modifying existing spirit stats (I think I used a domovoi baseline). Only have had one appear so far: an Unseelie-aligned Ms Johnson calling herself Kia, who has a tendency to just appear wherever. Like when you're showering. And yes, I know traditionally leprechauns are depicted as male; she'd have a little speech to respond to anyone bringing that up with her. Her stats haven't come up so far, though, so it really hasn't mattered.

[Snow_Fox]

The pixie/brownie/hob is called nisse in Danish. Nis is a name which 863 males was called in 2009.

Lars

863 males?

Ok I don't speak Danish and my usual source seems to have dropped off the face of the earth but the theory is still pretty solid. Just change my example in Denmark to 'Nisse' and we're good to go.

[BRodda]

so out of all the critters listed and even ones specifically made out of Irish folklore (even the Nac Mac Feegles) but no Leprechauns. Anyone else bothered by this?

Stated them out as a Dwarf Metavarient. Kind of a generic catch all for all the Wee Folk legends from across the globe. Thanks to everyone for some of the names to use.

I started a new thread for them Here. The Wee Folk.

[MYST1C]

so out of all the critters listed and even ones specifically made out of Irish folklore (even the Nac Mac Feegles) but no Leprechauns. Anyone else bothered by this?

Leprechauns are in Running Wild - p. 177, chapter "Strange Spirits", subchapter "The Fey".