Ravenclaw: Clan Lockhart

 Lockhart

"with honor unblemished"

Sigil: a harp and quill, lilac and periwinkle

Skills: Courtesy (expert) | Charms (advanced) | Athletics (basic) 

+1 to Cunning

Scions of a legendary duellist, dragonslayer, and author of numerous codices on the virtues of the Perfect Warlock, the Lockhart bards extol the clan’s dedication to the ethos of martial wizardry. Beneath this sterling warrior-poet reputation, however, rumors persist that the Lockharts achieved their high place in the Ravenclaw court through strategic marriages. Still darker stories tell of a Pensieve kept in a secret, mirror-lined hall in the family castle and stocked with the memories of obscure and unsavory origin.

Inspired Action – Winning Smile

You can spend Inspiration to talk your way out of almost anything. When you do, people will assume that you are in charge and that you know what you're talking about. Even if it is very, very obvious that you do not, you can still make somebody do a double take.

Flaw – Fortune's Fool

Circumstances conspire against you! You may declare that any failed roll of yours becomes a truly spectacular failure. When you do, gain Inspiration.

Starting Equipment –pick two–

1. Caged Cornish pixie (Bulky)
2. Portrait locket of the clan patriarch - very wise, very encouraging, but painted too small for his voice to be audible
3. Seemingly endless supply of silk handkerchiefs (ud3 if producing a truly outrageous number at once)
4. Mandolin and expensive hat
5. Extracted memory of expert monster hunter
6. Magical camera (Heavy, film has ud6)

Names

1. Galahad

2. Galloway

3. Gideon

4. Evangeline

5. Galinda

6. Gloriana

Design Notes: it's the bard! Love it or hate it, the theatrical fop is at least as common a character type as the dumb barbarian or the drunken Scot. And why not? You're all sitting down to play pretend with your friends, surely a little theatricality isn't out of place.

A commonly overlapping circle on the Venn diagram of "things that appeal to people who play bards," the Lockhart flaw is in service to a type of RPG behavior that actually does chap my ass a little: fishing for critical failures. By this I mean the type of player who wants to roll as often as possible, especially on things that they're mechanically bad at, in the hopes of failing and producing a humorous result. It's easy enough to prevent this becoming a problem by organizing when and how you call for rolls in the first place, but the clowns among us must still have their day in the sun. Send in the clowns. There ought to be clowns.

Names: in Rowling's supplementary fiction the Ollivanders have a thing for G names for some reason. "Gilderoy Lockhart" is too powerful a name to not have inspired a trend, however.