D&D (2024) Monster manual Fey video up

[Remathilis]

Witchlight.

Having read it with intent to run, I can tell that's like saying Curse of Strahd is a guide to the shadowfell.

 

[Tonguez]

Are Trolls and Ogres Fey too? They are pretty integral to most world myths, or their equivalent stand-ins anyway.

If goblins are Fey, I’d personally house rule Trolls and Ogres as well.

Then you get weird things like Dullahan (Headless Horsemen) and Sluagh- are they fey or undead? Undead fey?

 

[Yaarel]

Then you get weird things like Dullahan (Headless Horsemen) and Sluagh- are they fey or undead? Undead fey?

In D&D, I would count them as Shadowfell (Undead).

At the same time, in the Border Ethereal, there can be spooky location in the Material Plane, that is "haunted" by Undead, unseelie Fey, and Fiends.

 

[Scribe]

Witchlight.

Nah bro. Thats not at the same level as those other books. I really dont understand the push back against the Fey here.

 

[Remathilis]

Then you get weird things like Dullahan (Headless Horsemen) and Sluagh- are they fey or undead? Undead fey?

That reminds me about the divide in the paranormal community between ghosts, demons, and fey. Any paranormal entity is one or more of the above, depending on who you ask.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

So you're saying suspicion shouldn't be a thing? We should always accept marketing copy at face value, no matter what reason we might have to think otherwise?

I’m saying you’re tilting at windmills, Quixote. Worse. You’re seeking out farms on the chance that they might have a windmill, and thus a giant to fight. Hasbro has had WotC for over two and a half decades. They have probably meddled in quite a few of the decisions WotC made in 3.X, 4e, and early 5e too. Probably some decisions you liked, too. The only reason you have suddenly decided that Hasbro is meddling in the game to “ruin it” for you is because you didn’t like their Ravenloft book and now have a personal vendetta against WotC. It’s condescending and demeaning to people that do like the changes to imply you’re a “true thinker” that’s the only one that can see the corporate meddling that you think was involved in them.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Having read it with intent to run, I can tell that's like saying Curse of Strahd is a guide to the shadowfell.

Reading a book you comment upon???
Today you just look a tik tok video about it.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Witchlight.

Do you think the fact Tyranny of Dragons was published means that Dragons didn’t deserve Fizban’s? How about Storm King’s Thunder? Giants already got an adventure book, so they didn’t deserve a monster book in Bigby’s?

 

[Yaarel]

I like the way 2024 is handling creature types. Mostly it is (4e-style) Planar Origin.

Elves are mainly Fey. But communities that became part of the Material Plane and its bodies of matter, flesh and bone, likewise gained the Humanoid creature type.

(Ooze, Plant, Beast, and sapient Humanoid are almost reallife evolution, aspects of the Material.)

Shadar-kai could potentially be Undead, in the sense of gaining the Shadowfell Planar Origin.

Human souls might become Celestials or Fiends, depending on their afterlife.

Astral Elves seem to retain their Material Humanoid Type because of needing to give birth and raise children in a plane where the body can change according to the passage of time.

 

[Umbran]

The only reason you have suddenly decided that Hasbro is meddling in the game to “ruin it” for you is because you didn’t like their Ravenloft book and now have a personal vendetta against WotC. It’s condescending and demeaning to people that do like the changes to imply you’re a “true thinker” that’s the only one that can see the corporate meddling that you think was involved in them.

Mod Note:
Stop. Making. It. Personal.
Really. Stop. Now.
I hope that's clear enough for you.