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<blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 3664739" data-attributes="member: 18363">Poorly. Well, you did ask . . .&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> The problem with WotC doing a fey book is that they have painted themselves into a corner with the various MMs out already. Many creatures long considered fey in traditions, legends, and myths are not fey in the MMs. If they re-engineer these creatures they will have to make them fey type, meaning potentially major changes to the creatures (in hp, bab, good/poor saves, skill pts, etc). WotC is very unlikely to do this - meaning that they would likely just deal with the fey creatures already present, add a few more not yet stat'ed out (few that they are), and likely focus much of the book on the light and dark courts of fey and perhaps have a few sidebars suggesting a fey template or subtype that can be applied by a DM to the various fey creatures they do not wish to go to the to convert. All in all, such would come across as lacking, overly focused on a few areas of little interest to me, and rather jumbled in general. I have most of the non-WotC books on fey. I have no intention of wasting money on a WotC version that cannot begin to address the problems already existent in the [creature] system, let alone do a good job on addressing the complexities of the fey.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nyeshet, post: 3664739, member: 18363"] Poorly. Well, you did ask . . . :p The problem with WotC doing a fey book is that they have painted themselves into a corner with the various MMs out already. Many creatures long considered fey in traditions, legends, and myths are [i]not[/i] fey in the MMs. If they re-engineer these creatures they will have to make them fey type, meaning potentially major changes to the creatures (in hp, bab, good/poor saves, skill pts, etc). WotC is very unlikely to do this - meaning that they would likely just deal with the fey creatures already present, add a few more not yet stat'ed out (few that they are), and likely focus much of the book on the light and dark courts of fey and perhaps have a few sidebars suggesting a fey template or subtype that can be applied by a DM to the various fey creatures they do not wish to go to the to convert. All in all, such would come across as lacking, overly focused on a few areas of little interest to me, and rather jumbled in general. I have most of the non-WotC books on fey. I have no intention of wasting money on a WotC version that cannot begin to address the problems already existent in the [creature] system, let alone do a good job on addressing the complexities of the fey. [/QUOTE]

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