A Reason I Dig The Feywild...

[Scribble]

Yeah goofy name... I change it to faerie in my own games but:

I really like the concept, because it sort of highlights the nonsensical.

Take the movie Pan's Labyrinth... (If you haven't seen it I REALLY recomend seeing it. Both because it's an amazing movie, and has some D&D minable ideas...)

SPOILER



There's a scene where the hero, a little girl crawls througha door she drew on a wall out of chalk, into a room where a monster known as the pale man sits slumbering in his chair before a giant feast... He likes eating children, but if she doesn't steal any food she'll be safe.

She does though, and the pale man wakes up and chases her...

Ok WTF? How does this make any kind of sense? Why is this thing here? Why does stealing food wake it up? Why hasn't the food gone rancid?

But that's just how I see the feywild... It's a place that doesn't always make "sense" in human terms. Places there exist almost like dreams.

Anyone else agree?

Also I really want to stat up the pale man...

 

[I'm A Banana]

Anyone else agree?

....well, the thing is, it "makes sense" in the context of a faerie tale or a land of imagination.

But yes, I think that 4e bringing some of the dark and eerie back into the Fey is a really good move, reminding us that they are creatures of nightmare and terror as much as they are joy and peace.

"Sense" only has to be made within the context of this fantasy land where the rules are arbitrary and often self-contradictory. It's very Myth-y, and I like it like that.

 

[Scribble]

....well, the thing is, it "makes sense" in the context of a faerie tale or a land of imagination.

But yes, I think that 4e bringing some of the dark and eerie back into the Fey is a really good move, reminding us that they are creatures of nightmare and terror as much as they are joy and peace.

"Sense" only has to be made within the context of this fantasy land where the rules are arbitrary and often self-contradictory. It's very Myth-y, and I like it like that.

Well, I wouldn't say it's a 4e thing specifically... (Although 4e does bring the plane to promenance...)

3e had the Faerie realm too.

And yeah, while it makes sense in the land of fairy tales and such, that's kind of what I meant... It doesn't make sense in the human world type of way.

personally I feel the prime is supposed to make complete sense in human terms. The places where it doesn't are the places "touched by faerie" if you will.

 

[Byronic]

The only thing wrong with the faewild and its inhabitants is that they are still a bit too human, I want them more amoral and using more alien reasoning!

 

[Scribble]

The only thing wrong with the faewild and its inhabitants is that they are still a bit too human, I want them more amoral and using more alien reasoning!

Which ones?

I see this in the Eladrin, but tey're kind of half crossed in the the human realm...

 

[SavageRobby]

3e had the Faerie realm too.

And if you want to see a kick ass adventure around it, check out Paizo's Carnival of Tears.

 

[Ethalias]

I like the OP's angle. I liked the feel of the Feywild for a while but hadn't thought about it quite like that before.

 

[ProfessorCirno]

The only thing wrong with the faewild and its inhabitants is that they are still a bit too human, I want them more amoral and using more alien reasoning!

I'll second this one. Fae were called Fair Folk because they did horrible things to you if you didn't compliment them