naming new race, need help.

[helhir blaze]

I started making a custom race. this is what i have.

Born to a human father and a nymph mother
________ are always blinded at birth by their mother’s
appearance.
Often abandoned by fathers who have no need for
A blind child, ________ make excellent thieves.

________ are both fey and human for the purposes
Of any effect.
________are small creatures.
________ gain the following abilities
+6 dex
+2 cha
+2 wis
+2 int
-2 con
Low light vision,
+6 racial bonus to stealth +2 racial bonus to perception,
DR 5/cold iron,
Permanent blindness which can not be cured by anything
short of divine intervention,
60 ft movement speed,
Blind fight as a bonus feat,
Blind sense to a range of 30 ft.
________ begin play speaking Common and Sylvan.
________ with high intelligence scores can choose from any language they want (except for secret languages like
Druidic)
________ reach adulthood at ten at which point they stop
aging, bonuses still accrue but penalties do not,
________ are also immune to aging effects.
________ usually stand about 5 feet tall.

RP 31

[Rysky]

I'm guessing from the abilities you meant Nymph instead of Sylph?

[helhir blaze]

Rysky wrote:

I'm guessing from the abilities you meant Nymph instead of Sylph?

oh yes my mistake

[helhir blaze]

oops

[pocsaclypse]

clearly, there is only one correct answer

[helhir blaze]

pocsaclypse wrote:

clearly, there is only one correct answer

please no memes

[SmiloDan]

Dayborn? Because if they were born in the dark, they wouldn't see their mom.

Aboc. Or anoc. Or abocculus or anocculus. Song-gazer. Eeriekin (ear-y kin, get it???)

Belleburned? Belleblinded? Belleblotted?

[Irthos]

I'm curious as to why a 5-foot tall creature with two Medium-sized parents is considered Small-sized. Or, for that matter, why a blind creature has low-light vision. Can they not-see twice as far as a blind human?

Also, I vote to name them Jerkborn, on the basis that nymphs can suppress their blinding ability at will. Which means that any nymph who blinded their child did it on purpose.

(The dad doesn't exactly sound like a class act either.)

[SmiloDan]

"Somebody is really mad at these cans!!!"--the Jerk

[Captain K.]

The Nympho.

[Green Smashomancer]

The Snowflake-kin.

[Theliah Strongarm]

Why is it considered a small creature when both its parents were medium? And why do they have DR? You'd think that having a Human parent would mean they'd also inherit they're weaker attributes. Also, why do they have low-light vision when they can't see.

Just some minor pointers I wanted to mention.

Otherwise, I really like it. Keep it up!

[MageHunter]

The Tyresiai. Tyerisias (probably spelled wrong) is a blind prophet in Greek mythology. Seems fitting.

[The Sideromancer]

Theliah Strongarm wrote:

Why is it considered a small creature when both its parents were medium? And why do they have DR? You'd think that having a Human parent would mean they'd also inherit they're weaker attributes. Also, why do they have low-light vision when they can't see.

Just some minor pointers I wanted to mention.

Otherwise, I really like it. Keep it up!

Using the race builder, a race needs to be fey type to get DR/cold iron, and it has that all fey have low-light vision.

[Theliah Strongarm]

The Sideromancer wrote:

Theliah Strongarm wrote:

Why is it considered a small creature when both its parents were medium? And why do they have DR? You'd think that having a Human parent would mean they'd also inherit they're weaker attributes. Also, why do they have low-light vision when they can't see.

Just some minor pointers I wanted to mention.

Otherwise, I really like it. Keep it up!

Using the race builder, a race needs to be fey type to get DR/cold iron, and it has that all fey have low-light vision.

Yeah, but you could technically "adjust" the rules slightly, especially when a race that can't see has low-light vision.

Maybe you could compensate, with, say, tremorsense 30' or blindsense 60'? Just some ideas.

[Theliah Strongarm]

Maybe you could have some alternate racial traits too. Like, Nightborn would be one. They'd get vision but would lose low-light vision.
Also, the ability score bonuses seem awfully overpowered.

[Theliah Strongarm]

I think it should be called the...
actually, you know what?
Let's go with the Half-Nymph.

[KenderKin]

Pretty sure a better assumption would be to forget the entire blind off spring bit....

Blinding Beauty (Su)

This ability affects all humanoids within 30 feet of a nymph. Those who look directly at a nymph must succeed on a DC 21 Fortitude save or be blinded permanently. A nymph can suppress or resume this ability as a free action. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Emphasis added...

[The Raven Black]

Blindborn

[Sissyl]

Amauran

[Deighton Thrane]

My question is, why not just make this a template like the ogrekin, since DR 5, movement 60 and +6 to an ability score really aren't in keeping with PC races. Or you could just create a low CR monster in and of itself, and use the monsters as PCs rules if a player wants to play one.

As for a name, I'm having a hard time thinking of something original. The first thing that came to mind was the Forlorn, but that's already a thing in Pathfinder, at least in Golarion anyway.

[SmiloDan]

I'm thinking that the throes of childbirth can influence what you can and cannot do sometimes.

Also, it's a really cool and interesting origin story. The mechanics need to be tweaked, especially if this is for a PC. Being blind is a pretty big penalty, but some of the racial abilities are pretty strong.