[love crime]

Ah, just to clarify: I don't think rb pretenders are useless, I just find their design costs perplexing. Crone costs 25 design points, and once you've spent 10 buying 1 water, she is, for all intents and purposes, the same as the cost 55 frost father, but for 20 fewer points. The frost father has some slight combat advantages on her (..chil...cold immunity) but considering neither are combat worthy, it seems like just meaningless flavor.

I guess frost father has slighty cheaper incremental costs in raising water magic..? but again, he is a rainbow pretender, so it seems quite suspect that one would raise water very high, and still spend the points required to rainbow him (and if you aren't full on rainbowing him, then you may as well buy a pretender that can actually fight... often for cheaper points)