Feywild, fey as major powers in D&D: good thing?

[hamishspence]

I say yes. One of the things I was hoping for in 3.5, and didn't get, was a "Feyconomicon"
If the Feywild lives up to its promise in WaM, it will be a truly new flavor to D&D, a great leap back to old mythology, the Fey as dark and wild, the Seelie and Unseelie, the old Irish legends.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Yeah I definitely think it is a good thing, they are such a core aspect of mythology it wouldn't make sense not to have them be a powerful thing in the world. Also you could take them anywhere you like.

 

[kennew142]

I say yes. One of the things I was hoping for in 3.5, and didn't get, was a "Feyconomicon"
If the Feywild lives up to its promise in WaM, it will be a truly new flavor to D&D, a great leap back to old mythology, the Fey as dark and wild, the Seelie and Unseelie, the old Irish legends.

I thought fey were kind of uninspired in 3e. When I was developing my next campaign for 3e (before the 4e announcement), I was intending to leave them out of the setting. The new flavor I've seen for fey and the feywild have me very excited. I made major changes to my upcoming campaign in order to incorporate them.

 

[Voss]

The only two setting concepts I really like so far are the inclusion of traditional concepts like Faerie and Shadow. It gives me a lot of space to include interesting and impressive things, creatures, concepts that aren't tripping over the small human(-oid) settlements and completely obliterating them. Though people on either side of the veil can get through by chance or if they know how.

3e fey were rather sad and pathetic. In 4e there does seem to be an an interesting way of incorporating the dark and horrible fey as well as the inscrutable and terrifying 'lighter' fey. As well as the whimsical little pranksters.

 

[Klaus]

I say yes. One of the things I was hoping for in 3.5, and didn't get, was a "Feyconomicon"
If the Feywild lives up to its promise in WaM, it will be a truly new flavor to D&D, a great leap back to old mythology, the Fey as dark and wild, the Seelie and Unseelie, the old Irish legends.

Yes.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I never expected to be able to replicate Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell with out of the box D&D, but it looks like it'll be possible in 4E. This is a Very Good Thing.

 

[IanB]

I thought fey were kind of uninspired in 3e. When I was developing my next campaign for 3e (before the 4e announcement), I was intending to leave them out of the setting. The new flavor I've seen for fey and the feywild have me very excited. I made major changes to my upcoming campaign in order to incorporate them.

At first. The later stuff like the verdant prince I think was great, and hopefully an indication of the direction they're taking things.

 

[Remathilis]

I say yes. One of the things I was hoping for in 3.5, and didn't get, was a "Feyconomicon"
If the Feywild lives up to its promise in WaM, it will be a truly new flavor to D&D, a great leap back to old mythology, the Fey as dark and wild, the Seelie and Unseelie, the old Irish legends.

I was always pushing for a Feybook as well, but as I read about the Feywild, I begin to think I'm glad they held off. The fey are MUCH more interesting now as an ethereal, otherworld and amoral force of nature rather than "a druids best friend".

 

[FourthBear]

If they can actually get me to use the fey as a regular element in a campaign, it will be the first time *ever* in D&D for me. I usually end up skipping through those entries in the MM and ignoring all the adventures in Dungeon that had the adventurers getting caught up in the wacky hijinks of a group of prankster pixies or helping yet another slyph/dryad/naturegirl with some environmental catastrophe. I'm all for making those pages in the MM become actually useful to me.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

See the thing is actual Fey (like the type they are hopefully gonna pull-off) aren't like that. They are the ones that kidnap children, sweep down in their Wild Hunts, trick humans into killing their own kind, etc.

In many regards Fey are some of the most dangerous things to deal with since they are amoral and simply have no true sense of morality and a very fickled-rules and laws they expect even unknowing humans to obey by.

They are completely different from the "rescue my forest" dryads.