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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6531381" data-attributes="member: 4937">My point is that I've been playing D&D for about 35 of those years, and never at any point felt like I was necessarily evolving my conceptions away from D&D.For example, I would argue that the fey of D&D are intended to be the fey of myth and have the traits and qualities of the fey of myth.  Yes, perhaps sometimes the implementation was lacking and imperfect, in the same way that the implementation of Ranger, Hobbit, or Ent is lacking somewhat considering its obvious inspirational source material.  But looking back on early adventures and monster manuals, I think I can be forgiven for drawing the conclusion that the fey as presented were meant to be the fey of myth and legend.  Yes, when medusa or pegasus becomes a race rather than an individual, then you know that there is a departure from the mythic source material (to say nothing of the occurrence of such beings in universes without Greek gods), but that would have required conscious effort to depart from D&D.   My central point is that the power as written is useless outside of a very narrow range of settings, including IMO a fairly typical D&D one.The truth of the matter is less that D&D fey aren't assumed to be in the background, as it is that being in the background there is generally no need to mention them.  My suspicion is that the many DM's could not tell you what was within a mile of any particular location, and would generally answer 'nothing' unless it was a feature salient to the plot because only then might he have a ready answer.   As such, the power of this 'gem' would appear to be, "Detect prepared encounter" or "Detect plot significant location."   But little consideration appears to have been paid to someone who'd happily paint the background in when anyone paid attention to it.</blockquote>

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