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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 4925976" data-attributes="member: 48965">Uhm, I'm gonna have to disagree with both of you on this one... Let's look at that quote again..."Fey have always been a part of D&D that has both proponents and detractors. The detractors have some good points, in my estimation -- cute pixies and leprechauns aren't fun opponents, and good-aligned creatures are hard to use in combat-heavy adventures. Yes, people recognise pixies from fairy rales. But D&D is emphatically not the game of fairy-tale fantasy. D&D is a game about slaying horrible monsters, not a game about traipsing off through fairy rings and interacting with the little people. On the positive side, though, there is something very appealing about the legends of a faerie land, a world that's an imperfect--or a more perfect--mirror of our own. There's something genuinely frightening about the idea that a traveler in dark woods at night might disappear from the world entirely and end up in a place where the fundamental rules have changed. Magic is more real there, beauty is more beautiful and ugliness more ugly, and even time flow differently in the fey realm. Books like Susannah Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell depict that world in vivid language." (Note the bolded portion)He clearly asserts that D&D is a particular thing that does not include... " traipsing off through fairy rings and interacting with the little people."The problem is that he never says anything positive as far as fey and D&D go, he only makes a positive reference to their place in literature not the actual game of D&D though he clearly makes a statement about what is and isn't D&D in the paragraph that is negative about the fey.</blockquote>

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