Subject: Agent Seed Ideas
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Posted on: 2015-04-29 13:37:00 UTC

A lot of these are not fully fleshed out enough to really count as a full agent concept; they're just some ideas that I think would make for cool characters.

1 - A Haunted Oracle from Pathfinder. Oracles are divine spellcaster who have had power "thrust upon them," so to speak, and have to deal with a curse of some kind as a side effect. Haunted Oracles, in particular, are followed around by spirits of some kind that allow them to access specific spells, but have a tendency to mess with their stuff; it takes longer to retrieve an object from your bag, and if you drop something, it flies ten feet away from you. It'd be cool to see an Oracle actually interact with the haunting and could lead to some good jokes.

2 - Kind of similarly, a Summoner/Eidolon team, also from Pathfinder. It'd give the team a very different vibe from the usual one we see, but it could still play off some of the same tropes, especially if they're new to each other. Moreover, I think it would be really interesting to explore the psychology of an eidolon. Most of the time, they're either comic relief figures or walking class features, so it'd be neat to see one get equal development.

3 - And continuing my theme of "TRPG character linked to supernatural being(s)," a Sin-Eater from Geist: the Sin-Eater, one of the nWoD games. More specifically, a non-WoD agent who was fatally wounded in that continuum. As they were dying, a Geist offered to join with them. Now the agent has to deal with sharing their head with a strange, ghostly being, as well as all the other Sin-Eater baggage. A similar option would be a dying agent that Awakens as a Moros, though I don't think becoming a Mage would be quite as much of a paradigm shift for an agent.

The last one is an idea I've been considering using myself, actually. The first two are absolutely free-to-use, but I'd like someone who's thinking of using the third one to ask first.

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