How to Make the Fey Less Twee

[Tallifer]

Au contraire, mon frère: I make the fey even more twee in my Eberron campaign.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I would start with a simple rule: Nothing smaller than Medium-size. Small monsters get no respect.

I have made it my goal in an upcoming campaign to reverse this. Partly by using gnomes, halflings, goblins, and kobolds (probably the kobold press version, bc the volo's guide version is garbage), as terrifyingly effective antagonists. A gnome army invading your lands should make people crap themselves in terror. Gnomes are much scarier than any other PHB race.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I take it you haven't seen the tooth fairies in Hellboy 2?

Or the tooth creature from Channel Zero
[video=youtube;I5TecOA4TKs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5TecOA4TKs[/video]