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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7676121" data-attributes="member: 2525">You're not supposed to be bringing assumptions based on 3e and 4e.  For this sort of issue the game is clearly closer to TSR editions than 3e or 4e.  All kinds of stuff in the game wouldn't work right if you bring assumptions from 3e and 4e.  Wipe those mindsets out, and just read what it says.  Does it say you choose the creature, or instead does it say you choose the category? Now compare it to other spells like Find Familiar, which specifies you choose the creature.  Why are they different? Easy conclusion - for one you can choose the creature, for the other it's just a category.  Unless you bring assumptions from another game, it reads like Crawford said it's intended to be read.  It's only the outside baggage you brought to it, that causes it to read differently that what it says.As for the rest of your comments concerning balance - none of this is about balance, he's just answering the question he was asked.  If it's in the DM control, you get the level of balance the DM wants in their game.  For me - if you happen to be in the Feywild, or deep in an Elven forest, you will likely get pixies.  I won't care if they are the type that can do that and you get some huge benefit from it - the game won't break if you bypass a challenge faster and easier than the "norm".  Who cares, as long as it was fun.  Balance is just not that delicate for this game.  So great, you have a cool scene, and you move on to another challenge faster, and get more challenges in for that session.  That's not a problem for my games.  If they are a problem for yours, OK you're free to not have pixies appear or to houserule the orders.  But, for me, it works fine and I truly don't care about balance to the extent you do.  It's not anywhere close to the top of my list for fun in RPGs.</blockquote>

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