D&D (2024) Fey Video Critique & Alternate Perspective

[Zaukrie]

Why does it matter if it’s a designer choice to go back to the fey origin over a player one?

I agree. Almost nothing actually changes in play. So much angst over so little importance. Especially since it's all made up and you can do what you want in your game.

 

[SkidAce]

They said they started the migration, now they are finishing it.

Pray they do not alter it further....

 

[Parmandur]

What about the other species that were humanoid with the Fey Ancestry trait? Are elves fey?
If not, that is where the inconsistency lies.

If there were specific Elf stat blocks, some might be. This is exceptions based design: inconsistencies are baked into the system.

 

[Chaosmancer]

This seems self-evidently true, and it is not the first time designers have imposed top-down decisions about species.

Aren't ALL changes the designers make essentially top-down decisions? Like, even with things like bonus action potions which were an incredibly common house-rule... not all tables used them so for those tables that was a top-down decision. Designers are at the top, there is really not any other way to make those decisions.

I truly do not understand this complaint.

 

[Chaosmancer]

What about the other species that were humanoid with the Fey Ancestry trait? Are elves fey?
If not, that is where the inconsistency lies.

It isn't inconsistent to say that elves who have been on the material plane for dozens of generations (of elves mind, you not human generations) are no longer Fey with ties to the Feywild. It is a choice, yes, but it is not inconsistent.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

They were a notable part of the adventure.

Not in the way it was marketed (you'd be hooning around Avernus in them like Fury Road)

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Aren't ALL changes the designers make essentially top-down decisions? Like, even with things like bonus action potions which were an incredibly common house-rule... not all tables used them so for those tables that was a top-down decision. Designers are at the top, there is really not any other way to make those decisions.

I truly do not understand this complaint.

Yeah, so why the whole "we're doing this because it's how players are using them" gaslighting? Just come out and say, "We are changing them to fey because we like that better."

 

[QuentinGeorge]

It isn't inconsistent to say that elves who have been on the material plane for dozens of generations (of elves mind, you not human generations) are no longer Fey with ties to the Feywild. It is a choice, yes, but it is not inconsistent.

Up until a few years ago goblins had zero ties to the Feywild yet are now fey, I'd say that doesn't really make any sort of logical sense except in the idea "goblins in real world myth are connected to fey, so we made them fey."

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Not in the way it was marketed (you'd be hooning around Avernus in them like Fury Road)

And you do. I ran the adventure that was a notable part of it.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Up until a few years ago goblins had zero ties to the Feywild yet are now fey, I'd say that doesn't really make any sort of logical sense except in the idea "goblins in real world myth are connected to fey, so we made them fey."

That’s a good enough reason for me. But it’s also more interesting than goblins as boring foot soldiers of evil who are nothing but a few hit it points with a sword.