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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3121230" data-attributes="member: 7883">Perfect example <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />They don't have to be pushovers....and with such a magical race, I'd think fighting them would be infuriating.....getting swarmed by angry bees, realizing your sword just turned into a bouquet of flowers when you're about to chop into that dryad, etc.  Run forward to tackle the faerie, and it vanishes, appearing behind you.In Raymond Feist's novel, they even seem to radiate a confusion spell around them, caused by pheremones.In much of the dark fantasy concerning Faeries, they seem to have the drop on humans.I think that the fact that for many of them, their stats are so weak are partly due to a lack of imagination on designing them well.  Some are interesting, like the Redcap and the Spriggan, but still I think they could use some work.Van Richten's Guide to the Shadow Fey is another example of how they can be made more dangerous, and less friendly.There are probably many varieties of Faerie that haven't been created yet.  The White Ladies, a greater variety of Unseelie, alternate takes on several types that have been created already, etc.Banshee</blockquote>