The Fair Folk

[Wizards of the Coast]

James whisks you away from your mundane monsters, abnormal aberrations, and conniving fiends so that he can show you the enticing and sometimes deadly fey folk. Do you have a strong enough will (and grip) to keep the Queen of the Faeries from claiming your Tam Lin? Neither are required . . . yet. But maybe soon.

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[Ed_Laprade]

One thing they keep forgetting is that Goblins are fey too. And Brownies were originally fairly tall for 'wee' folk. (3-4' IIRC.)

 

[Ahnehnois]

Hags aren't fey.

 

[Stormonu]

I think James needs to go back and at least check out the Narnia books/movies. Plenty of excellent adventuring ideas for the fey as allies and foes. Which seems to be a big thing D&D ignores these days - allies to the party's cause, not just enemies.

And the take of hags being fey boggles and entices me. I can kind of see it, kind of not. I tend to see hags more related to trolls and ogres than dryads and nymphs though...

 

[ferratus]

If Centaurs and Satyrs and Nymphs are fey, I don't see why hags wouldn't be fey. Medusa too for that matter.

Really, though, you can swap a lot of monsters between "monstrous humanoid" and "fey" depending on your tastes. Magic and a tie to nature seems to be a common themes (though I believe goblins are fey and they don't have a tie to either), as well as capriciousness (which goblins have in spades).

Hags seem to fit all three, so the case for Hags being fey is pretty strong.

 

[MortalPlague]

Hags seem to fit all three, so the case for Hags being fey is pretty strong.

I agree. I have no problems with Hags being fey.

Let's not forget that Hags use illusion and charm to trick people, which seems to be in line with the fey identity.

 

[Klaus]

I think James needs to go back and at least check out the Narnia books/movies. Plenty of excellent adventuring ideas for the fey as allies and foes. Which seems to be a big thing D&D ignores these days - allies to the party's cause, not just enemies.

And the take of hags being fey boggles and entices me. I can kind of see it, kind of not. I tend to see hags more related to trolls and ogres than dryads and nymphs though...

I'd certainly accept goblins, bugbears, trolls and ogres as fey creatures. Moreso than cyclopses.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Sort of opens up the vista, yeah?

I've got no problem with hags as fey, as long as they also remain buddies with giant-kin. I see them in play as part of the orc/troll/ogre complex, somewhat of the brains behind these operations. They do make sense as fey, but they've got a big history as giant-kin, too, and as long as they retain those links, I don't have a problem with making them "fey-origin giants" as it were.

 

[Zaphling]

I never saw gnolls, goblin-kinds, giants, orcs as fey creatures. They are always presented as natural world creatures, not Feywild denizens.

which i strongly support too

 

[steeldragons]

Are other peple reading this article now and posting? Every time I've gone to follow the link/check it out today I'm being told they're closed for maintenance...and sorry for the inconvenience.

How're people reading this article?