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

[arscott]

It's about damned time that Fey get the respect that they deserve. My only complaint is that Drow are probably still going to be spider-themed cave-dwelling dominatrixes rather than unseelie. Or svartalfar. Or jungle-dwelling children of Ananzi. Or basically anything but spider-themed cave-dwelling dominatrixes.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I'm just waiting for the first Feywild vs. Far Realm event.

Oh boy.

"Help me brave adventurers! Slobbering tentacled blobs are eating my pixies!"

That sounds like an utter nightmare - imagine trying to get the PC's to negotiate a peace settlement between those two powers...

 

[Steely Dan]

I would like to see a return of some of the old school fey – buckawns, killmoulis, brownie, booka, atomie, korred etc.

 

[Steely Dan]

Oh boy.

"Help me brave adventurers! Slobbering tentacled blobs are eating my pixies!"

That sounds like an utter nightmare - imagine trying to get the PC's to negotiate a peace settlement between those two powers...

Yeah, right up there with the two kids in a sandbox situation we have going on.

 

[Wormwood]

Yep.

One more good thing to add to the list.

 

[Lord Zack]

While I'm not using the new 4e cosmology in my campaign, Faerie (which is what the Feywild will be called in my campaign) will be a demiplane closely tied to the material plane and hence, pretty much the same as the Feywild in the main cosmology. And, though my first 4e campaign might not focus around the material plane (and hence also Faerie, I like what they're doing to fey. In fact I'll likely have Faerie some connections to the Outer Plane of Aborea anyway, and the Eladrin will be found there at least, so I might be able to use it to some degree.

 

[GreatLemur]

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.

Yeah, I've been reading that lately myself, and it's definitely got me much more interested in using fey or something like them. I've got some thoughts about reducing them to their fundamental traits and stripping away what I'd consider incidental and cultural trappings.

 

[kennew142]

The what now?

Tolkien's elves are primarily based on the ljósálfar of Norse myths.

I would say inspired by instead of based on, since there is so little to go on in the actual myth cycle, but that's just pedantry. (I can't escape it; it's my nature.)

I think the reference to Finnish elves comes from the fact that one of Tolkien's elven languages (the wood elf language) was influenced by the Finnish language.

 

[Mirtek]

To be fair: 3.x (and prior D&D) also had the plane of Faerie with it's capricious rulers and Dragon Magazine did quite a few articles about the seelie and unseelie fey. I don't think one can say that "4e saved the day".

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

To be fair: 3.x (and prior D&D) also had the plane of Faerie with it's capricious rulers and Dragon Magazine did quite a few articles about the seelie and unseelie fey. I don't think one can say that "4e saved the day".

True, but the Fey always seemed to be an afterthought in 3E and before. I like that it will be a part of the core, and maybe treated with some more cohesive thought rather than a bunch of unrelated and not terribly thematically linked bits and pieces.