Interesting, in my group its common for both male and female players to play a characters of opposite gender. Sometimes when you have an awesome character concept they are just a certain gender in your mind and we are all mature enough to role play the other gender respectfully. =)
Just my personal preference or prejudice I admit. What others do is fine. My awesome character concepts always happen to be the same gender as me is all. -Nerdarchist Dave
Was hoping you'd cover this, in my group I've got a druid who is going to rescue her half fey father from a fey prison, only draw back her father is actually using her to unleash an evil fey God. Have this idea of two treants that diverge from the same root cluster forming a Stargate like portal to the fey wilds. Also going to lead her into a fey warlock pack and assign a spirit guide for her Not sure how to run a "end of the world unleashed" campaign after that though lol
Sounds great. Balor might be a good choice for the evil fey god (though strictly speaking he is a fomorian overthrown by the fey gods) see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balor or www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Article/1198646. Might be confused with the demon but his eye will certainly fulfil the end of the world criteria.
Since come up with some custom lore, he is one of the old gods "Life spread across the land he walked, the Elven kind born of his blooms, man from his fruit and dwarves of the rocks his roots touch" etc etc then basically jealous god / neglected race burnt him to charcoal and left him with eternal fury at the world he had spawned and had to be sealed before he remade the world in his burnt image. He has basically ash humanoids to fight for him if the players fail to prevent his release. As the prison is in a tree in the fey wilds he will basically manifest from the bark on the walls and burn the tree in the process. the ash minions from carvings along the wall depicting the 7 sins in all their forms.
For some reason I've now got this idea of the party busting the father out of prison and him roping them into stealing either the map to or the actual preserved head of Balor for some Fomorians (see p136 MM). He thinks they just want it as a powerful weapon or to honor their fallen godking but actually they plan to resurrect him in all his fell glory mwahahaha. . . On the more serious side this gives the party several chances to actually prevent the end of the world. Which you know is always a good thing. Though a conquered realm with fey/fomorian overlords and your party leading the resistance could be fun too.
::gets ready to say something about the stance on a guy playing a girl:: really? ::then finds "eeh I don't get it, it's not my thing." a sufficient explanation.:: eeh, it's not for everybody. please don't judge us all based on that guy that makes it weird.
It does seem a little hypocritical for people who have been playing D&D from back in the day when it was considered a weird hobby for manchildren to be pointing at other people saying they are a little weird. Oh well *shrug* People be people.
The reason I don't role play female characters is because I don't know how! I'm a male and I identify as such. I wouldn't know how to accurately portray a female character if I tried. So I play male characters, because that's something I'm comfortable with and have experience doing.
I once had my players get derailed by a pixie who was having fun laying false tracks for the ranger to follow. In the end, they were sidetracked long enough for their mission to fail... costing the life of their most valued Ally NPC. Obviously the pixie found that hilarious and didn't understand the harm it had caused. lol
Gosh dang pixies. Ryan Friant the triumphant return of Goblinerd. I was just mentioning last night I've haven't seen you around since we did a certain video response :( I can't but notice when certain people who comment vanish for a bit. It's a weird side effect managing a UA-cam channel I hadn't expected. Glad to see you are still around. -Nerdarchist Dave
Nerdarchy He's ALIVE!!! XD Seriously though, all a coincidence I assure you. :) No issues, still a big fan, and I've even got the T-shirt to prove it :D
***** LOL, life happens. I figured as much. Most of my comment was meant tongue and cheek. But it always good to get comments from our regulars. -Nerdarchist Dave
I could very well be wrong, but were you guys saying centaurs when you meant satyrs? Centaurs are non-fey creatures, and satyrs are a pretty iconic fey. The inclusion of the Feywild in 4th ED was one of the few things I liked about that edition. I hope with 5th we get to see some of the darker, madness based evil fey that Pathfinder did a good job of including in their Bestiaries. It would also be cool to get satyrs as a PC class at some point. Another great vid- I've long been a fan of the crazy-ass fey!
There has always been dark fey creatures in D&D back to 1st and 2nd edition. Fey and sylvan creatures really. Centaurs have traditionally hung out with the fey so we included them. Also I could see them roaming around the feywild. -Nerdarchist Dave
I really like the Fey as a concept, but I often have a little trouble using them effectively in my campaigns. I love the Dresden Files, but I feel like Jim Butcher's idea of the Summer and Winter Courts doesn't work very well in most campaigns. What do you guys think about giving structure to Fey society? Would you do it more like in the Dresden Files or differently?
I based my Fey of Dresden but with 4 courts, The Summer Court of Strength and Fire The Autumn Court of Harvest and Wisdom The Winter Court of Death and Cold The Spring court of Birth and Life All 4 are good and bad as the fey have their own ideals. But if one fey court gets too powerful, the others weaken and the worlds warp. Then the non-fey must restore balance. In my game, some wise guy thought the Summer and the Spring were the good fey and helped them power up. Now everyone is extremely fertile and no one ages once reaching adulthood. Succession problems. Too many predators. Too many short lived evil humanoids. Plagues don't wane. Food is worthless. Economies crash. Now people want to help the "MURDER DEATH KILL" Winter Court.
A cool idea, but to me that's one of those things you need to either focus the whole campaign around or else not include at all. That's actually how I feel about several Fey concepts.
I actually have it as the background. The whole lord and kings never dying and tons of wolves has set off and couple civil wars. So no has time for the fey problems. Comes off very Song of Ice and Fire like. No one has time for fey shenanigans since everyone wants to be king of the rubble and ashes. Comes off very fey like. A big fey thing is happening but nobody, not even the fey, takes the fey stuff serious... except Asmodeus DUN DUN DUN
What's the deal with the gender-comment? It's a ROLEPLAYING game. If I can roleplay a studious and befuddled wizard one day, and a dumb barbarian the next, a dwarf or an elf, why couldn't I roleplay a woman? Y'all need to expand your minds.
It was explained within the same line "To me its weird". People are free to their own feelings and to express them, just like someone's free to feel roleplay as the opppsite whatevers and doing so.
Fey, or Fæ in my world Dark Valinoth, are a huge part of the world, their land, called the Sevæne, is an amazing place. The Seven, or pumped up Eladr in, are the rulers of the fæ, and all of them are immortal.. more on this later.. Great video as usual guys.. and more on Dark Valinoth coming...!
I actually thoroughly enjoy the eladrin subrace, im playing and dming due to lack of pcs but my character is an eladrin prince of the fey courts. Adds a lot of mystery and kinda made the other players feel as if he is a badass bc I make gaelic and fae refrences frequently in my speech. plus misty step is friggin delightful on a dex based paladin
If say 1 minute in fey time is equivalent to 10 years in prime time (over exaggerating but you get the picture) then you'd only age a minute even if you went to back to the prime just everyone else would've aged the 10 years. Kind of like narnia in the sense the kids only left the place for a year or two and then suddenly 100 years had passed in narnia
Interesting, in my group its common for both male and female players to play a characters of opposite gender. Sometimes when you have an awesome character concept they are just a certain gender in your mind and we are all mature enough to role play the other gender respectfully. =)
Just my personal preference or prejudice I admit. What others do is fine. My awesome character concepts always happen to be the same gender as me is all.
-Nerdarchist Dave
Was hoping you'd cover this, in my group I've got a druid who is going to rescue her half fey father from a fey prison, only draw back her father is actually using her to unleash an evil fey God.
Have this idea of two treants that diverge from the same root cluster forming a Stargate like portal to the fey wilds.
Also going to lead her into a fey warlock pack and assign a spirit guide for her
Not sure how to run a "end of the world unleashed" campaign after that though lol
Wow sounds amazing! Keep us updated it sounds like fun. Well done DM well done.
-Nerdarchist Dave
Sounds great. Balor might be a good choice for the evil fey god (though strictly speaking he is a fomorian overthrown by the fey gods) see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balor or www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Article/1198646. Might be confused with the demon but his eye will certainly fulfil the end of the world criteria.
Since come up with some custom lore, he is one of the old gods "Life spread across the land he walked, the Elven kind born of his blooms, man from his fruit and dwarves of the rocks his roots touch" etc etc then basically jealous god / neglected race burnt him to charcoal and left him with eternal fury at the world he had spawned and had to be sealed before he remade the world in his burnt image. He has basically ash humanoids to fight for him if the players fail to prevent his release.
As the prison is in a tree in the fey wilds he will basically manifest from the bark on the walls and burn the tree in the process. the ash minions from carvings along the wall depicting the 7 sins in all their forms.
For some reason I've now got this idea of the party busting the father out of prison and him roping them into stealing either the map to or the actual preserved head of Balor for some Fomorians (see p136 MM). He thinks they just want it as a powerful weapon or to honor their fallen godking but actually they plan to resurrect him in all his fell glory mwahahaha. . .
On the more serious side this gives the party several chances to actually prevent the end of the world. Which you know is always a good thing. Though a conquered realm with fey/fomorian overlords and your party leading the resistance could be fun too.
DevDeedSquire Nice : )
First thing Nate looks weird without his coat. Next I like to see a 5ed Quickling.
That makes two of us. One of our commenters have mentioned getting one in a recent minis pack. One of my favorite monsters for sure.
-Nerdarchist Dave
It's true I don't know why but I took it off for this set of videos. Probably not going to happen again any time soon. Even in the summer
::gets ready to say something about the stance on a guy playing a girl:: really? ::then finds "eeh I don't get it, it's not my thing." a sufficient explanation.:: eeh, it's not for everybody. please don't judge us all based on that guy that makes it weird.
Anyone know where i can find inexpensive ad&d texts older editions are fine even preferred
I find your gender bias disturbing. The only negative stigma associated with playing a character 'not' of your gender - is your own.
Okay..........................?
It does seem a little hypocritical for people who have been playing D&D from back in the day when it was considered a weird hobby for manchildren to be pointing at other people saying they are a little weird. Oh well *shrug* People be people.
The reason I don't role play female characters is because I don't know how!
I'm a male and I identify as such. I wouldn't know how to accurately portray a female character if I tried.
So I play male characters, because that's something I'm comfortable with and have experience doing.
I once had my players get derailed by a pixie who was having fun laying false tracks for the ranger to follow. In the end, they were sidetracked long enough for their mission to fail... costing the life of their most valued Ally NPC. Obviously the pixie found that hilarious and didn't understand the harm it had caused. lol
Gosh dang pixies. Ryan Friant the triumphant return of Goblinerd. I was just mentioning last night I've haven't seen you around since we did a certain video response :(
I can't but notice when certain people who comment vanish for a bit. It's a weird side effect managing a UA-cam channel I hadn't expected. Glad to see you are still around.
-Nerdarchist Dave
Nerdarchy He's ALIVE!!! XD
Seriously though, all a coincidence I assure you. :) No issues, still a big fan, and I've even got the T-shirt to prove it :D
*****
LOL, life happens. I figured as much. Most of my comment was meant tongue and cheek. But it always good to get comments from our regulars.
-Nerdarchist Dave
lol
David Friant Yeah, I'm a regular patron, so don't forget to reserve my booth for me! XD
The lack of fey creatures in the MM 5e is disturbing.Good thing there's the TOB from kobold press.
Absolutely disgusted with the bigoted comments on gender. Be ashamed of yourselves and your archaic views.
I could very well be wrong, but were you guys saying centaurs when you meant satyrs? Centaurs are non-fey creatures, and satyrs are a pretty iconic fey.
The inclusion of the Feywild in 4th ED was one of the few things I liked about that edition. I hope with 5th we get to see some of the darker, madness based evil fey that Pathfinder did a good job of including in their Bestiaries. It would also be cool to get satyrs as a PC class at some point.
Another great vid- I've long been a fan of the crazy-ass fey!
There has always been dark fey creatures in D&D back to 1st and 2nd edition. Fey and sylvan creatures really. Centaurs have traditionally hung out with the fey so we included them. Also I could see them roaming around the feywild.
-Nerdarchist Dave
Nerdarchy Centaurs do fit in well with the sylvan/fey world. Being labeled as a "monstrosity", as they are in the MM, doesn't feel right for them.
KJ TTT
When I DM I do what I wanna do.
:)
-Nerdarchist Dave
Lol. I just love it when he randomly says yo. Everytime it just makes my day. 😂
New to D&D and this channel has been so helpful and inspirational. Thanks guys!
I really like the Fey as a concept, but I often have a little trouble using them effectively in my campaigns. I love the Dresden Files, but I feel like Jim Butcher's idea of the Summer and Winter Courts doesn't work very well in most campaigns. What do you guys think about giving structure to Fey society? Would you do it more like in the Dresden Files or differently?
I based my Fey of Dresden but with 4 courts,
The Summer Court of Strength and Fire
The Autumn Court of Harvest and Wisdom
The Winter Court of Death and Cold
The Spring court of Birth and Life
All 4 are good and bad as the fey have their own ideals. But if one fey court gets too powerful, the others weaken and the worlds warp. Then the non-fey must restore balance.
In my game, some wise guy thought the Summer and the Spring were the good fey and helped them power up. Now everyone is extremely fertile and no one ages once reaching adulthood. Succession problems. Too many predators. Too many short lived evil humanoids. Plagues don't wane. Food is worthless. Economies crash. Now people want to help the "MURDER DEATH KILL" Winter Court.
A cool idea, but to me that's one of those things you need to either focus the whole campaign around or else not include at all. That's actually how I feel about several Fey concepts.
I actually have it as the background. The whole lord and kings never dying and tons of wolves has set off and couple civil wars. So no has time for the fey problems.
Comes off very Song of Ice and Fire like. No one has time for fey shenanigans since everyone wants to be king of the rubble and ashes. Comes off very fey like. A big fey thing is happening but nobody, not even the fey, takes the fey stuff serious... except Asmodeus DUN DUN DUN
Funny you should mention that. We are working on our spin. Anything can work it's just matter of how you spin. In my opinion.
-Nerdarchist Dave
shocknix
LOL and let the good times roll. Nice spin on things.
-Nerdarchist Dave
What's the deal with the gender-comment? It's a ROLEPLAYING game. If I can roleplay a studious and befuddled wizard one day, and a dumb barbarian the next, a dwarf or an elf, why couldn't I roleplay a woman? Y'all need to expand your minds.
It was explained within the same line "To me its weird".
People are free to their own feelings and to express them, just like someone's free to feel roleplay as the opppsite whatevers and doing so.
Dave totally looks like a dwarf in the lighting lol
The name you were searching for, was Daniel.
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Gotta catch them all
Get them pokeballs ready.
-Nerdarchist Dave
Fey, or Fæ in my world Dark Valinoth, are a huge part of the world, their land, called the Sevæne, is an amazing place.
The Seven, or pumped up Eladr in, are the rulers of the fæ, and all of them are immortal..
more on this later..
Great video as usual guys..
and more on Dark Valinoth coming...!
I actually thoroughly enjoy the eladrin subrace, im playing and dming due to lack of pcs but my character is an eladrin prince of the fey courts. Adds a lot of mystery and kinda made the other players feel as if he is a badass bc I make gaelic and fae refrences frequently in my speech. plus misty step is friggin delightful on a dex based paladin
Always useful thoughts. Thanks for such great suggestions.
Glad to hear. Thanks for hanging with us.
-Nerdarchist Dave
You know? I sort of like your old nedarcy except I am as old, if not older and welcome to the true D& D. Very, very cold.
Fey just want to have funun
Oh Fey just want to have fun
Prepare to be lost in the woods for a couple hours!
Do you sray the same age you were when you leave the fey? Like a day in the prime you age 30 years because your fey trip took that long?
If say 1 minute in fey time is equivalent to 10 years in prime time (over exaggerating but you get the picture) then you'd only age a minute even if you went to back to the prime just everyone else would've aged the 10 years. Kind of like narnia in the sense the kids only left the place for a year or two and then suddenly 100 years had passed in narnia
Heh heh. Green card. Get it? *shot*
How about a fey court but it only has one member who has multiple personality disorder... and is also bipolar.