D&D 5E Witchlight, what do you wish it had?

[Scribe]

Tiny, Flying, Fairy PC option.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Something less fairy-tale and more a fey-themed Ravenloft
I like my faes really scary and twisted.

When I read the new Feywild kingdoms would be Domains of Delight, I thought this would mean that each domain is a reflection of the twisted, alien obsession of the fey-liege, not something actually delightful.

Something closer to the 4e Heroes of the Feywild, or Terrible Beauty, the fey supplement for Shadow of the Demon-Lord.

Tbh, while I prefer stuff like this and Heroes of The Feywild to the darker stuff that I see as taking fairy tales and making them even darker than they were originally while pretending they didn’t feature helpful fairy tale creatures as well, I do think that had they made the Shadowfell and Feywild one plane, it would be easier to have both and you’d already have that.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Weren't they deliberately trying to make something suitable for younger players, though? I think it's good to have a product like that available, personally.

Oh I agree.

Its just my own vision of the Feywild, and knowing that Sacrosanct is working on a Celtic/Scot/Fey themed product, I wanted to throw my vote for a darker theme, since traditionally those faes werent kid-friendly...to say the least

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Tbh, while I prefer stuff like this and Heroes of The Feywild to the darker stuff that I see as taking fairy tales and making them even darker than they were originally while pretending they didn’t feature helpful fairy tale creatures as well, I do think that had they made the Shadowfell and Feywild one plane, it would be easier to have both and you’d already have that.

I love the idea of ''prison demi-planes'' for extra devious mortal powers. If the planes of dread are pockets prison in the shadowfell for lords cursed to relive again and again their worst moment, I see domains of delight to be prisons made for lords cursed to relive their over-indulgence again and again.

Both of them are equally awful, just not in the same way.

 

[Bolares]

I wanted something more based around stories. Fey and fairy tales are interconnected to me. So I wanted a plane were the fairy tale was the driving point, not the wishes of a ruler.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Oh I agree.

Its just my own vision of the Feywild, and knowing that Sacrosanct is working on a Celtic/Scot/Fey themed product, I wanted to throw my vote for a darker theme, since traditionally those faes werent kid-friendly...to say the least

That's an understatement lol. I actually decided to put a "Content Warning" flag in the book, under many creatures, because many of the them engage in activity such as torture, child abuse and abduction, major consent issues, and sexual harassment. The mylings in particular are very dark, as they are the spirits of unwanted children killed by their mothers. That lore brings in a lot of potential issues there, and an additional historical note in their stat block was needed.

 

[Bolares]

I actually decided to put a "Content Warning" flag in the book

This is a good choice. People may expect the tone to be lighter, and you don't want to blindside them with darker stuff.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I love the idea of ''prison demi-planes'' for extra devious mortal powers. If the planes of dread are pockets prison in the shadowfell for lords cursed to relive again and again their worst moment, I see domains of delight to be prisons made for lords cursed to relive their over-indulgence again and again.

Both of them are equally awful, just not in the same way.

I think that’s a fine idea, but I’m very glad that isn’t the way they went with the Feywild as a whole. Hopeful, they’ll explore that kind of thing down the road.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

I think that’s a fine idea, but I’m very glad that isn’t the way they went with the Feywild as a whole. Hopeful, they’ll explore that kind of thing down the road.

Yeah, I'm not even sure that I actually want my ''type of fae'' in D&D. As the last Emo-kid on Earth, I love me some dark-and-edginess, but I dont think most D&D players at my table sign up for this kind of thing.

That's also why I dont want to run Curse of Strahd for my players; my other Dm-friend will run it as more of a classic Hammer-film horror. I'd make it super dark, with horrors unspeakable and all that.....and ruin everyone's fun.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Yeah, I'm not even sure that I actually want my ''type of fae'' in D&D. As the last Emo-kid on Earth, I love me some dark-and-edginess, but I dont think most D&D players at my table sign up for this kind of thing.

That's also why I dont want to run Curse of Strahd for my players; my other Dm-friend will run it as more of a classic Hammer-film horror. I'd make it super dark, with horrors unspeakable and all that.....and ruin everyone's fun.

You know I have a similar problem with cosmic horror, in that I can lean really strongly into that which terrifies me, like body horror (had a nightmare recently where mushrooms were growing on me), gut wrenching impossibility (another where the sky was the wrong color and as I stated at it searching for the sun, the sky…the entire sky, blinked) and loss of autonomy/volition ie being kind controlled or otherwise robbed of free will, which some of my players cannot deal with, and even I don’t always deal well afterward.

At the same time, I really like digging into the esoteric concepts and will absolutely lose some of my players in “the crystalline latticework of the ritual architecture”, so I gotta be careful about how esoteric I get.