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<blockquote data-quote="toucanbuzz" data-source="post: 7558456" data-attributes="member: 19270">I ran a dark fey campaign once (Pathfinder's Kingmaker). Conversion needed, but check out Paizo's &quot;Carnival of Tears.&quot; Too much to include here, but I scattered in medieval-style dark nursery rhymes the party would hear walking through town and other lore at low levels, foreshadowing when the nightmares became real. The &quot;Carnival of Tears&quot; is great because the fey-mind runs on a whole different page than humans, and it's twisted and dark and alien. They have a set of rules that mortals don't get to play by, and it lets them gleefully take your children, curse you, and ultimately make you the apparent cause of your own detriments. And fey don't pull punches. They're playfully gleeful, which may make them seem harmless, but if you violate the Rules by which they play, they get nasty fast. Minor fey might pull pranks because by their rules, you're supposed to get irritated and irate, but if the humans don't play by the rules and pull a blade or the like, they turn dark, perhaps turning your food to poison while you rest. The greater fey, the single legendary ones, in Kingmaker were seeking to pull a portion of land (coincidentally the kingdom) into their faerie realm, a ship in a bottle if you will. For that to happen, the land had to become like fey lands, and that didn't translate well for the life expectancy of mortals.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="toucanbuzz, post: 7558456, member: 19270"] I ran a dark fey campaign once (Pathfinder's Kingmaker). Conversion needed, but check out Paizo's "Carnival of Tears." Too much to include here, but I scattered in medieval-style dark nursery rhymes the party would hear walking through town and other lore at low levels, foreshadowing when the nightmares became real. The "Carnival of Tears" is great because the fey-mind runs on a whole different page than humans, and it's twisted and dark and alien. They have a set of rules that mortals don't get to play by, and it lets them gleefully take your children, curse you, and ultimately make you the apparent cause of your own detriments. And fey don't pull punches. They're playfully gleeful, which may make them seem harmless, but if you violate the Rules by which they play, they get nasty fast. Minor fey might pull pranks because by their rules, you're supposed to get irritated and irate, but if the humans don't play by the rules and pull a blade or the like, they turn dark, perhaps turning your food to poison while you rest. The greater fey, the single legendary ones, in Kingmaker were seeking to pull a portion of land (coincidentally the kingdom) into their faerie realm, a ship in a bottle if you will. For that to happen, the land had to become like fey lands, and that didn't translate well for the life expectancy of mortals. [/QUOTE]

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