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

[Ruin Explorer]

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.

Yep, though, uh, screw the Irish, legends of faeries and so on are much broader and more interesting that just that folksy shiz. I think in this regard D&D is really catching up with fantasy as a whole, particularly modern fantasy, where the fey in general tend to be far more prominent than D&D 3E's "Oh, fey yeah, I guess he mostly forgot about them. Oh well." deal.

 

[Mirtek]

3.x also had this it's not as if the feys didn't get some love before.

I hope we will be seeing the Kiss of the Grave poison again, nothing better to screw up a fey than to poison her with mortality

 

[Mistwell]

I think it is a good thing (along with the development of Shadow, as someone else mentioned). These are two "realms" that inspire me a lot for developing a rich RP world, and I am happy to see them being focused on by WOTC so much for this new edition.

Much more interesting than "Astral" and "Ethereal", which rarely inspired me.

 

[hamishspence]

Online source

Online sources are not as helpful as having a book to read. So I prefer actual written sources.

Irish legends in this context mean the Tuatha de Danan, Balor the Dreadful, etc. Redcaps are apparently outt of Scottish legend: yummy!

 

[Mirtek]

Online sources are not as helpful as having a book to read. So I prefer actual written sources.

Your word in the ears of the management who killed Dragon and Dungeon

 

[Ahwe Yahzhe]

Thanks

The what now?

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

Thanks for the link! I always wondered about why Tolkien's elves were so different from the faerie folk- I just thought it was something pulled from the Kalevala because of all the linguistic and mythological influences.

Anyway, Feywild = Fun!

 

[hamishspence]

Online stuff

Yes it is rather irritating. Would be different if it was free the way the extra content on the WOTC site used to be. Frankly i'd rather pay for dragon and possibly Dungeon as mags, not subscribe to a site. But, its happened.

It could be worse, all the 4th ed books could be expensive downloads. NOT nice.

There are some interesting novelists who have done the fey. Bridget Wood, Laurell Hamilton.
Even the spiderwick chronicles have some interesting moments.

 

[Brother MacLaren]

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

Like Fallen Seraph had planned for 4E, I had this feature in my 3.5 campaign backstory.

Deep in the mists of time, the Faerie drove the Elder Evils from the world, forcing them to the darkness far below or the stars far above. Eventually, mortals came to be, and from mortals, the gods. The Faerie moved to their own Realm (with Shadow on the edges). They are older than the gods, and supreme in their own Realm. Some seek to regain their influence over the world, some meddle with mortals for their own amusement, and some are benevolent. They are not gone, and neither are the Elder Evils (as was found out by dwarves who delved too greedily and too deep, collapsing tunnels in their panic and stranding hundreds of their people in the darkness below with Things That Should Not Be).

The Feywild and Elder Evil fluff are among the things that I'd have actually liked about 4E.

 

[frankthedm]

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".

But it is the first edition that has entrenched those ideas in the core. Up until 4e, core fey have been predominantly good to neutral with few exceptions. The fey that were stealers of children were woefully absent.

 

[Lord Zack]

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=86637&page=1&pp=30

That's a pretty cool thread. It's inspired me a lot. I really want to use fey now.