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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 9644140" data-attributes="member: 25818">A quick scan gave me:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"A boggle is born out of feelings of loneliness, materializing in a place where the Feywild touches the world in proximity to an intelligent being that feels isolated or abandoned. For example, a forsaken child might unintentionally conjure a boggle and see it as a sort of imaginary friend. A boggle might also appear in the attic of a lonely widower's house or in the caves of a hermit." (VGM)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Meenlocks are spawned by fear. Whenever fear overwhelms a creature in the Feywild, or in any other location where the Feywild's influence is strong, one or more meenlocks might spontaneously arise in the shadows or darkness nearby. If more than one meenlock is born, a lair also magically forms. The earth creaks and moans as narrow, twisting tunnels open up within it. One of these newly formed passageways serves as the lair's only entrance and exit." (VGM)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"In the Feywild, or where that plane touches the world at a fey crossing, if a sentient creature acts on an intense desire for bloodshed, one or more redcaps might appear where the blood of a slain person soaks the ground. At first, new redcaps look like tiny bloodstained mushrooms just pushing their caps out of the soil. When moonlight shines on one of these caps, a creature that looks like a wizened and undersized gnome with a hunched back and a sinewy frame springs from the earth. The creature has a pointed leather cap, pants of similar material, heavy iron boots, and a heavy bladed weapon. From the moment it awakens, a redcap desires only murder and carnage, and it sets out to satisfy these cravings." (VGM)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"A killmoulis arises spontaneously in the Feywild whenever someone commits an act of charity to help a tired or lost traveler. Emerging from the shadows near the site of the deed, the creature takes to the road, wandering to seek out travelers who might have food it can sneak away with in return for the benefits of its magic." (MFF)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Mites are natives of the Feywild that arise when a creature becomes so irritated with a situation or event that it lashes out in violence. That creature experiences strange dreams the next time it sleeps, then sleepwalks to the nearest tree or other large plant, digs a small hole, screams into the depression, and refills the hole. When it awakes the next morning, the creature feels strangely refreshed. Then on the night of the next new moon, the dug-up earth stirs and a pack of mites emerges. Born of frustration and anger, these creatures exist only to replicate in others the emotions that created them." (MFF)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"A screaming devilkin sometimes arises when a creature in the Feywild is overcome with panic to the point that it screams, babbles, and otherwise loses control of its faculties. When such an event occurs, the creature’s scream echoes through the Feywild. If it echoes at just the right angle between a rocky outcropping in the dead of night, the scream gains intensity and volume until it reaches a piercing crescendo. At that moment, the stone of the outcropping shatters as a small flock of screaming devilkins erupts from the earth and take to the air." (MFF)</li> </ul>VGM = Volo's Guide to Monsters; MFF = Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio, an Extra Life product which I highly recommend if, like me, you enjoyed the 1st ed AD&D Fiend Folio and were missing some of the weirder critters.I did a conversion of my own which I will add in to my Feywild. On my occasional gaming blog, I posted a number of conversions of April Fool's content from old issues of Dragon magazine, converted to 5E. One of the articles that inspired the blog posts was the old 2E AD&D "(Not Necessarily) The Monstrous Compendium" from Dragon #156 (April 1990). I haven't posted it yet, but one of the critters I was working on converting was the "Tickler" created by Erik Freske, which is basically a tiny animate ball of fluff with wings, that can fit through tiny holes in clothing and chinks in armor and tickle people, which it likes to do. My best conversion idea was that that sounded like a Fey to me, so that's what it is. My text for how they arise is: "Swarms of ticklers are generated in the Feywild, or areas close to a fey crossing, whenever someone expresses amusement by laughing; the peals of laughter change in-flight into balls of gray fluff, shifting from translucent to opaque and then spreading their wings and flying off, each “Ha!” spawning its own tickler. Particularly uproarious bardic per-formances have resulted in dozens of swarms forming at once. Such spontaneously-generated ticklers fly off to orient themselves and join together into swarms for protection, before going to search for sustenance."</blockquote>

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