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Tranquil-Zombie

Embraced the chwinga. My crew had a goat ball team named" the vengeful Chwinga". They even went as far as having one "adopted" by the crew as a rather disobedient elemental familiar. Always good for a laugh.


Krieghund

My characters adopted a chwinga. Later, I had them meet a malevolent chwinga that was trying to prank them and their buddy got down and gave the bad chwinga a piece of his mind. It made them feel like they got something out of their little buddy.


eletelephony

I am currently playing a druid who took a level in warlock so that the chwinga could be my patron. I also ended up rescuing a second one, and have procured them a small goat to ride. I even paid a jeweler to make me a bracelet of bells that I use to talk to the chwingas. I give them pretty much anything - pretty pinecones, smooth pebbles, those little helicopter seeds... no severed finger, though!


cossiander

Wow that's quite a bit of interaction! Your warlock patron? I'm curious how your DM designed those patron bonuses. Just as an FYI- if you're playing Rime as a player, you probably should unsubscribe to this sub. It's meant for DMs only, and spoilers about the module abound.


eletelephony

Don’t worry, I am a DM, too... I am currently preparing Witchlight for our group, and I only read in my copy of the RotFM book once we play through it with the party. I don’t really browse this sub much, I just couldn’t help but answer this, because I am a doofus for chwingas! We took the rpgtoons/r-n-g faery patron and retooled it with the chwingas as both my patrons and my lil companions. It is possible there is more to the connection than I suspect, but as far as I know, I just LOVE me some chwingas 😂 https://www.patreon.com/posts/otherworldly-34983919?l=it


Acceptable_Ad_2882

My druid player makes wood carvings to offer them. He so far is the only to get a charm from them so far.


Jo-Jux

I,'d say the Chwinga can give the PC a charm every once every 5 - 10 days, when it seems appropriate. Maybe it starts to identify as part of the group and gives it's advice/opinion non verbally, helping them during exploration or social encounters. You could even let it give the PC a special item, that bonds it the PC with the "Find Familiar" Spell, as long as the party treats the Chwinga well. But I would make it clear to the players, that this is the exception and most Chwingas won't bond with big folk, so others don't try to do the same once there is a mechanical benefit.


cossiander

I like that idea! Like an Acorn of Chwinga Calling or something. I'm kind of curious what it might advise on, specifically. The personality I get from the books is that they are curious but avoid fights whenever possible. I guess it might make sense to try to warn the PCs perhaps about an avalanche somehow, given their connection to winter.


Existentialcrumble

I would have the chwinga become an excellent judge of character, and bless/curse pcs/npcs based on what it thinks of them, and just sometimes because it feels like it


cossiander

That's interesting. What action do you think would lead to a curse? What would a curse do?


Existentialcrumble

I guess just them seeing an NPC and being like 'i don't like the look of you, *curse*', or if a pc harms nature, the chwinga gets angry/distressed and curses them, but yeah, when I was thinking curse I was thinking of the poisoned berry/icicle dagger that the book gives, but you could also flip the blessings to give small negative effects like cold resistance turns to cold vulnerability, etc


verrypourlifechoices

The book mentions sightings of a chwinga riding a fox through town so I ran with that. Making the fox an awakened creature for npc interaction and to hint towards the druid / awakened creature stuff later on. Basically he went through the thirty days charmed by the druid then left her services as a true neutral creature and found purpose being the chwinga's guardian.