Suggestions for Fey

[Aus_Snow]

Raven Crowking would be the best person to ask, around here.

Books? Well, for free, there's these articles at WotC's website. Might not be what you're looking for, but yeh, they're free.

Out of the books I own though, GURPS Faerie is (I think) the best. Some people don't enjoy converting from system to system, however. I don't mind, so it's fine for me.

Picked up the Complete Guide to Fey (by Goodman Games) fairly recently. I believe they've done a few in that range (Liches. . .?) Anyway, it's pretty good, I'd say. Nice treatment for d20, with surprisingly broad scope, given the low number of pages (in comparison with the monsters it shares a shelf with ). I thought there was a review here on ENWorld, but I can't locate it right now.

The Shadow Fey book sounds like it could be a perfect fit, too.


edit --- At RPGNow, there are a couple of 4-star ratings for the pdf version of the Complete Guide to Fey.

 

[Aikuchi]

I like to delve into the old 2nd Editions of White Wolf's "Changeling" for some Fey perspective. Of course, thats updated to modern times. with more medieval setting in .. uhmm i forget ..."Land of a thousand dreams"?

SIgh ...

 

[BrotherDog]

Keep in mind that they needn't be evil to be devistating. Their sense of humor at times can be unintentionally deadly. Though there are darker fey and most of those tend to seem spidery and thorny. Take the Bramble Faerie from 2nd edition for instance.

 

[RichGreen]

Hi,

I used the nasty little redcaps <Monster Manual III> in my fey-heavy adventure. There are are also a few fey-related encounters in Atlas' excellent En Route book. I added "Dance the Night Away" to my game -- admittedly it's more humourous than dark and menacing. Two of the PCs ended up with animal heads after upsetting the pixies and grigs in the adventure.

Cheers


Richard

 

[Tav_Behemoth]

Here are some classic Gygaxian fey that never got their due IMHO: the booka appears in Greyhawk (MC5) and 1E Fiend Folio; the killmoulis has a 3E conversion in Tome of Horrors 1, and also appears in the 1E Fiend Folio, Monstrous Compendium Volume 2, and Monstrous Manual; and the jermlaine, which has a 3E conversion in the Monster Manual II and also appears in Monstrous Compendium Volume 2, 1E Fiend Folio, Monstrous Manual, and Descent into the Depths of the Earth.

The jermlaine are the easiest to get the feel of from the way they're used in the G series; the other guys are more difficult to run as opponents (non-evil, tricksy, etc.) but would make cool player races!

 

[Nifft]

IMC, there are no "good" fey. Fey are all [Chaotic] -- the infinintely selfish type of [Chaotic].

Some like humans, and some do not like them, but even the ones who like humans are not necessarily helpful -- consdier the Dryad who loves attractive human men, so much that her oak tree's roots conceal a pit full of skulls. She can't bear to see a man leave...

-- N

 

[philreed]

May I pimp?

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Written by Keith Baker, no less.

Yes, yes you can.

 

[Imagicka]

Greetings...

Another source you might want to look at is Ars Magica's book on Faeries.

Of course, a couple of ideas I've had and used in the past...
Having a fey court based on the Queen of Heart's court in Cinderella.

Making my fey nobels based on real world celibrities, like Michael Jackson. After all, who else is more out of touch with reality? -- I had a campaign where my players found themselves in the faerie realms, meeting all sorts of faeries, making new friends and such. While they are exploring, they meet someone who I modelled after a young Michael Jackson. Young, Intelligent, yet Wise & overly mature for his age. Later on, they meet the king of the fey, who I modeled after the current Micheal Jackson. Or course, they figure out they are separate personalities of the same person who divided from each other some time ago. Both persons are suffering because of this separate, and the players somehow have to figure out that they have to get the two halves back together again.

But, I say, the best way to represent faeries, is to base them off of charactures of real world celibrities.

 

[Woas]

Raven Crowking would be the best person to ask, around here.

Books? Well, for free, there's these articles at WotC's website. Might not be what you're looking for, but yeh, they're free.

For whatever reason, these articles come up with a very odd message:

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I have no idea what that means, but I'm sad cause I'd really like to read those articles now.

 

[Aus_Snow]

For whatever reason, these articles come up with a very odd message:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0007'

Out of memory: 'CreateObject'

/global/utils.asp, line 298

I have no idea what that means, but I'm sad cause I'd really like to read those articles now.

Hm. I'm not sure what that's all about. I just copied the URL as is, and it still works fine here. Maybe if you try copying and pasting it into a new window manually? The URL is: wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/fey (with www. on the front, if needed).

If it just won't work for some reason, I guess the other way would be to go directly to the wizards site; the D&D section; the archives section; the retired articles & other articles section; and finally Fey Feature (which contains the lot of them).

Best of luck with getting whichever part of the process was/is buggy to work.