Honestly the pixie mafia would be the scariest thing ever. The temperamental nature of fey would mean any conversation could blow up in your face in a hilarious way
@@AJPickett Yeah he took that charger feat so he got extra damage on charge attacks so he could live up to the name. He eventually joined a pirate crew funny enough. He was a Rowdy little pixie.
@@Randomdudefromtheinternet Take the charger feat. Your an invisible flying bullet. Its amazing. Only downside of the build when my friend played it was that the DM made him use Pixies d4 hit die because he was allowed to keep the at will invisibility.
In the game I'm running there is a Pixie companion assigned to a Kenku party member. She can't fly and is on a quest to have her wings restored by her late queen.
I like the idea of a Pixie party member flying up all sneakily and stabbing the Big bad in the eye, distracting them at just the right moment for the other party members to strike, or perhaps preventing the Big Bad from completing the evil spell, or something like that... heck, a Pixie Rouge would be neat... using their small size and flight to get into all sorts of places, spy on stuff, e.t.c
I have run a game where a small band of player character pixies single-handedly disabled an entire army and their siege weapons, undetected, then infiltrated an archwizards citadel and caused his major transdimensional spell to backfire and turn him into a beholder.
I have only ever played one session of D&D (group ended up not being able to schedule regularly) two of us including myself were pixies... the other players thought we were cute... until they all started failing spectacularly in combat against the orc guards of the prison we were starting in.... Use pixies however... we kept rolling wonderfully and gouging out the eyes (I had some ability to turn my fingers into claws and decided this would be an effective strategy) yea the other players were happy we were doing well but extremely distressed they were failing while a pair of pixies took out orc after orc.
@Hunter Actually I think a small intelligent fast moving flying being armed with a sharp object, even if it was a glass shard would be quite terrifying even if they had no magic.
I love everything fey in dnd, in 5e, the Feywild and its inhabitants are by far my #1 favorite part of the multiverse of dnd. i actually find the fey wild more appealing than the upper planes like bitopia (spelled wrong i think).
Imagine pixie cavalry using faerie dragon “mounts”. Clouds of euphoria gas, random soldiers floating through the air and officers disappearing and reappearing seemingly at random… You’d never see them coming, quite literally.
Drow OC: (Walks through the feywild.) (Comes back second later cursing and screaming) Party: What happened? Drow OC: THEY WANTED TO PINCH MY SKIN BLACK AND BLUE BUT IM ALREADY BLACK SO THEY WOULDN'T STOP PINCHIIIHEHEHEINNNNGGG!!!" *Sobs uncontrollably*
Pixie Friend “Hey, I made a pie! You want some?” Player “What’s in it?” Pixie “Blueberries...” Player “Ok.” Takes bite. Pixie “Blueberries laced with Glitter Millipede Toxin. Have a nice trip.”
I played a Pixie noble that would sell his dust as a drug. That group called pixie stick candy kiddy cocaine because of being a powered sweet and sour candy
The last time I was in a D&D game, we had a Barbarian and an Illusionist in the same party and they fought like cats and dogs. At one point the Illusionist befriended a group of pixies and for the rest of the party's time in their woods they would shoot the Barbarian with their 'lose 5 minutes of memory' darts every time he yelled at said Illusionist. Which was quite often. We spent close to 3 RL months in those woods.
AJ's Pixies and their magical pixie dust! Reminds me of the Bart and Milhouse Squishy bender episode with the scene where Barney drinks some while they freak out haha
Escalla from the Paul Kidd books explained Pixies as being an offshoot of fairies, just less powerful and intelligent (although I think that was mainly a jab at other Fey folk). I always thought of them as slightly larger atomies, which are the small fey folk I think of when pixies are mentioned. The hierarchy of fey folk must be a bit confusing to most humanoids as the chaotic nature of Pixies seems to have little untamed for most societies (save gnome/halfling settlements).
I love using pixies in my games. It always do funny to see my players faces contort in surprise when I perfectly mimic a high pitched knowledgeable squeaky child.
Faith Alexandria read a story in 3.5 about someone playing a pixie dragonfire adept. Took a feat to give himself the draconic fear ability. 1ft tall fairy flying overhead inspiring pants-wetting terror.
So I was in a campaign where the party ran into a group of pixies (well there territory) and started to bed down for the night. The next morning the wizard (my half elf) and the fighter (a female human) woke up with our long hair branded together. The druid (a dwarf) and the cleric (also a dwarf) where clean shaven and bold. Best random encounter we ever had.
There are human sized pixies and fairies and they're almost impossible to distinguish from each other And from the Sidhe Rumor has it pixies and fairies fight in almost unending War over a thimble ... Yes that's right they fight literal wars over a thimble Because our ancestors used to lump all of them into one group they called them elf-shot-arrow and they were blamed for everything you got arthritis, you have conjunctivitis, the Black plague wiped out half the town, your cows milk went sour, it won't stop raining or you're literally dying from pneumonia all of it elf-shot-arrow
Encounter concept: A Hag captures 20 or so pixies, just enough for a small community? Said Hag takes these pixie to her swamp/forest lair where she frees them while casting barriers around her territory, entrapping them. Would the Hags dark fey taint twist these pixie over time, turning them into a malicious security force??
Knowing pixies, they are extremely hard to keep entrapped like that, but, yeah its a very short fuse before you set off an explosion of evil from them... a very short fuse.
Pixie mortality, fearlessness in warfare .. a.) Pixies have a set lifespan and then are reincarnated back into a pixie, hopefully. Some wizards/ sorcerers are know to give themselves pixie wings as soon they learn Alter Self. b.) Pixies are immortal in the sense if they are .. killed .. in combat they may leave a corpus behind looking like a giant dragonfly, grass hopper or a frog and reform back in their lair. If their lair is destroyed they are reborn out of the ether at the start of their align season. c.) As a once per day action they can teleport back to their lair and reform a fortnight later after Healing a creature for 5d8hp. " think of the fairies from Legend of Zelda." d.) Pixies reflect the natural/ unnatural environment their lairs are in. So if a dragon or hag corrupts the forest, swamp, desert etc. than the pixies grow malicious in their pranks. e.) If you ever .. kill .. a pixies, they will come back to haunt you till they grow bored. f.) If a PC carries .. honey .. in a given pouch that the pixie can fit in, the pixie will hang out till all the honey is gone. g.) As for pixie lairs, a comfortable bag that can carry a lot of nit'nacks or a bird cage will hold a traveling fairy's lair. They will appear as small song birds to hide in plain sight. A contract is a contract, so a brawly grim face war veteran that looks like the last person you want to fight could be seen carrying a pole with a bird cage hanging from it holding a pixie lair. Such as an orc that is carrying a bird cage holding a yellow flinch song bird which happens to be a murder pixie from a hag's peat bog that is found of watching creatures drown. h.) Suicide games or gabbling their wings is nothing to them since they will reform in a fortnight back in their lairs. As for their little treasure hoards in their lairs, it is a high crime to mess with them and an act of war. They will sleep deprive their enemy till they lose enough wisdom to go mad.
*Relevant and Supportive Comment* (Now to re-create the band from the Land before Time, using our own polymorphed team members.) Edit: Just realized that if they have the fly spell cast on them, then they won't have to worry about the Big Water.
it would be funny if the entire party was running pixies except one person and the pixies just act like the other party members conscience or just literally running a full party of pixies i feel like that would e both hilarious and chaos at the same time
My favorite type of fairy is adhene gnome size fairy, astrai water fairy, sylph the one with bird wings power over wind, skrzak bat wings fairy living in labyrinth or cave they love dark areas and yosei I just imagine them with moth wings from Japanese so fluffy and soft
In many of my campaigns, when I have a player whose personality is similar to a Pixie's, I go right to showing them the player character information on playing a Pixie. In high-magic campaigns, having a Pixie in your party just makes sense.
All of the Zelda video games, if Link doesn't have a pixie guide, then he can just catch them for last ditch back up healing. Campaign rule, if PC has a sizable leather bag with honeycombs within them, a pixie will just move into the bag to help themselves out. As long as you have honey, you have a healing pixie. If you have a healing potion made from giant queen bee honey, well .. say goodbye to that costly few hundred gp healing potion. Its the pixies now. " hic-up."
@@krispalermo8133 Thanks for the smile. I now want to dig out my Hyrule home brew campaign world. I created it and ran it with my Zelda Super Nintendo gaming group friends when one said "I wish D&D was like this". We played it for a couple years before that group fell apart. Well, that was at least 4 moves ago, so it might have been lost in one of those moves. It was one notebook.
@@That80sGuy1972 My first game shop during the turn of the early 2000's when I was just 21yo and still only had AD&D .. N64 Zelda Orcina of Time magazine guide map walk through was my shop's .. Main .. campaign game map book. Shop own was cool at letting us bring the N64 into the shop to play. Could find print on demand for that gaming magazine. N64 Castlevaina without dying or pulling off all the trick stop correctly took 6 to 7hr to play strait through. We played a level of the video game then ran it as AD&D then later with 3rdE. It took a week to table top that game with a group of eight players. If you count the spawning enemies compare to AD&D regular PC class or " Create your own playing class character, " One Player could not make it through the game alone. It was brutal. Die and get Teleported back to your last save point. If the monsters didn't kill you, it was failing the Jump checks and drowning that got you. Sorry you landed in Poison/Disease water and the lizardmen drown you, restart.
Oh the hijinks my adventurous drow would have to go through running through a pixie kingdom because the one thing he didn't pick up on being a descendant of a few race is of the feywild, almost being more humanlike in interactions with them than not. He can sense almost everything else in the gods damned realms but pixies urrrgghhhh.
Hey, A.J. I really appreciate your deeply nerdy videos. I'm running a Spelljammer campaign, and I was wondering if you were planning to do any more videos o the monsters and ecologies of that setting. I'm hoping to use a Radiant Dragon soon, and I event been able to find any lore beyond what's in the original box set. Btw, I'm using 5e as the format for this campaign, so I'm adapting the material as best I can. Thanks again for your work!
pixies are my favorite player race and im really good at playing one to the point my dm wont let me play them in anything but one shots because i constantly break his encounters :]
1.) Would you rule that they have a place separate from the faywild or just their own regions? 2.) Are they immune to things like dragonfear or a fear spell? 3.) Are they willing to sell/trade/gift their pixie dust? Can a non-pixie use the weapon effects? 4.) I thought that the dream realm was in the ethereal plane, is it connected to both of them? 5.) Dose the shadowfel have the same connection to the lower-plane? 6.) Can you be affected directly by the weird logic of the feywild, or the said daydreams of a deity? 7.) Are eladrin able to understand this like the native species, or just enough to get by on the plane?
If i remember right, the intermediate rules set had a supplement to play faeries. Pixies were listed, as were pouhka, sprites, satyrs, etc... would have been in the mid 1980's
So in my last campaign, I actually had a player become a pixie. See, I gave my party a deck of many things....that I custom made. Meaning they had my deck of many things. One card would have the person turn into a pixie. So my tortle wizard became one of the fairy folk. It was great! Until he got eaten...
@@AJPickett ya, he tried to take on a djinn by himself at 6th level. There wasn't much I could do for him. It's actually a really fun story if you're interested
@@AJPickett I was actually making that story into a video. It's up on youtube now, I can send you the link. Though I don't wanna link my stuff in your comments, seems a bit.....wrong. I'll send it to ya over Twitter!
I have a reocuring party NPC who is a goth pixie caller Orchidra. She swears like a sailor and can be easily bribed or destracted by flowers she can use to make her own dresses. Every time I have used her she always becomes the parties favorite character. Oh and if you call her a fairy she will unleash a flurry of insults at you.
Random PC or npc, " What a cute little sprite !" Orchidra, " Sprite .. Sprite, .. I show you a Sprite ! Who the bleeping bleep is Cute ! .. I .. AM .. GoRgEoUs ! Forget the toast & honey, Give .. ME .. Mead ! "
PIERCER & ROPER _Theme Music Starts and the Piercer & Roper Logo Pops on Screen_ Announcer: “Last time, on Piercer & Roper!” _Montage starts as Announcer continues_ “Our boys in blue ran a brief undercover operation to catch a Derro, who was dealing Pink Ooze Powder. However, when Roper tried to make the arrest the Derro bolted, and almost got away. Luckily, Piercer was able to keep the perp pinned down long enough for Roper to catch up and cuff him. With this Derro dust dealer caught, Roper dragged him into a back alley, ready to start an impromptu, and illegal, interrogation.” _Scene starts off with Roper slamming the Derro against a wall_ Roper: “ALRIGHT, DIRTBAG, START TALKING!!!” Derro: “I don’t know shit man!” Roper: “OK, WE’LL DO THIS THE HARD WAY THEN!!!” _looks down at Piercer_ “START CLIMBING!!!” Piercer: _Stares expressionlessly_ Roper: “I SAID CLIMB!!!” Piercer: _Begins to slowly drag himself up the wall next to the Derro_ Roper: “THIS IS A 4 STORY BUILDING!!! THAT MEANS YOU ABOUT 30 SECONDS TO TELL ME WHAT I WANT TO KNOW UNTIL MY PARTNER REACHES THE ROOF AND TAKES ANOTHER DIVE!!! HE’LL AIM FOR YOUR FEET, BUT SOMETIMES HIS AIM ISN’T SO GOOD FROM THAT HIGH UP!!!” Derro: “You’re crazy man! I already told you, I don’t know shit man! This is police brutality!!” Roper: “WHERE’S THE SHIT COMING FROM??” Piercer: _is on wall_ Derro: “I don’t know man! I swear I don’t know!!” Piercer: _reaches roof and takes position on the overhang_ Roper: “LAST CHANCE!” Derro: “Please don’t do this man!” _Roper give Piercer a nod and her drops, landing inches from the Derro’s feet as the perp screams_ Roper: “LOOKS LIKE HE MISSED!!! WE’LL JUST HAVE TO TRY AGAIN!!!” Piercer: _Begins to drag himself up the wall again_ Derro: “I’ll never snitch!!” Roper: “OH SO YOU DO KNOW SOMETHING!!! GET TO TALKING!!! I DONT THINK HE’S GONNA MISS AGAIN.” Derro: “You’re all talk. You won’t do it!” Piercer: _As he drags himself back into position above, one drip of sweat rolls down his conical forehead and drips off, hitting the Derro’s nose on its way to the ground_ Derro: “If I snitch, they’ll kill me man!” Roper: “WHAT DO YOU THINK WE’RE GONNA DO IF YOU DON’T TALK?!?!?!” Piercer _Lands on the ground, sticking into the cobblestone street barely a hairs width from the Derro’s feet_ Roper: “LOOKS LIKE ITS TIME FOR ROUND 3!!! START CLIMBING PIERCER!!!” Derro: “Ok! I’ll talk!” _Screen goes black_ Announcer: “Piercer & Roper have “convinced” the dealer to talk. Will he lead them to the supplier or just higher ranking dealer? Will the Captain find out about their extreme tactics? Will Piercer & Roper have to sit through yet another “Police Brutality And You” seminar? Find out next time on (Theme Music Starts) PIERCER & ROPER!!!!!!”
AJ Pickett I actually I didn’t finish this post. I’m about to edit in the rest of it. I was bored to I came up with a part 2 for the last Piercer & Roper idea I left on the P&R Live Stream video. I’m probably gunna keep leaving more as ideas come to me, feel free to ignore them and tell me to knock it off if it gets annoying.
I would love a series on all the playable character races and an in depth look at each one because until you said it in this video I had no idea pixies where a playable race it would be interesting to explore the playable character races in depth
one of the four random effects, disadvantage on the saving throw. (however, if you want to have more fun with it, Movie Lore from Willow tells us that it causes the inhaler to fall temporarily in love with the first living being they see).
I like to think that the lore about fey primordials remembering reality being differently arranged is kind of a meta-game wink and nod to us oldies who prefer elements of older D&D editions. I personally just can't get used to the Feywild and Shadowfell. I'm still stuck with 2nd edition Great Wheel cosmology.
Ironically, it is back to being the wheel, the shadowfell is just the demiplane of shadow, and the Feywild is the celestials mystic forest zones (which includes a few of the forested layers of various non-lawful good planes), so, its the same, but different. :)
Ahoy hoy, AJ! Great video! Are you ever gonna do a video on Obox Ob, the first Obereth? Ive got a pet theory that he IS the shard of chaos (based on your videos and a few things yoive said) I feel like he deserves about a half hour video. Super fastenating stuff, my brother. I listen every day. Have a great day!
Definitely my favorite are the fey and the fey wild. Very well done AJ. Thanks from an old dm for all your videos. Too bad we didn't have this back in the beginning
What types of fey actually compose the fey courts? Does it ever say? Or just up to the DM? I could see Le Shay's being in the court, but at the same time, that might be too anchoring for them. How do you run it?
I've never had players deal directly with the fey court before, they only ever meet minor archfey and even then, they are usually WAY out of the player characters comfort zone.
lol, ALL OF THEM! ! ! In 4E when the Fae Courts of the Feywild became a big deal , they were mainly composed of a type of greater Eladrin call Eladrin Nobles I think. They were more like greater demons and devils than a typical fae race and likewise the mose powerful were unique individuals like demon princes and archdukes.
@@AJPickett I had Mushroom Pixies for those forests. They were normal Pixes for the most part, but socially a bit more brutally Underdark adapted. Deep Gnomes protected their mushroom forests for a reason.
I had a funny idea when playing as a pixie go around the pub drugging evryones beer for shits and giggles and maybe have a mini bag of holding full of pixie dust just to dip arrows (toothpicks) into it I want to play as a pixie now I would obviously want a mini bag of holding specifically to carry a humans worth of pixi dust and that brings up the question if you had more than a pinch of pixie dust could you theoretically cast higher level spells
Do Pixies ever inhabit urban environments? I could see them causing havoc simply to amuse themselves and to keep an eye on on the machinations of adventurers who might be interested in conducting operations in the woodlands where most of their communities are located...
Almost replied the typical " of course, this is D&D, make it your game." I say most likely not. That not a never ever, though. Isolated, natural homes are what they live in, so that literally contradicts a component what makes a pixie - be a pixie. Unusual & rare case of wanting to live in a metro area (but probaby in the least traveled part of the city park, a nearby nature reserve/preserve, in the zoo etc) possibly. Or are you meaning a highly populated fey civilization? I wouldn'tbe able to name them, but this is just an idea: A variant faerie could be completely cool with living in towers as if they were just metal and rock trees. A place similar to Ravnica comes to mind. By the description of unseelie vs seelie: my opinion is that a city-dweller would be unseelie. Seelie means silly. Unseelie just means not silly or serious/stoic. You could take that and run with it.
I always thought the wolf blowing down the house was an allegory for powerful winds. as in "remember kids, if you're going to build a house near high winds, use stone and not straw."
Which fae race would be your typical large-insect sized, 3-4" tall Tinker Bell type faerie? I was thinking Atomie, but now I'm wondering if it's the Pixie
I was about to say Grig, because you mentioned insect... yes the Atomie is one of the smallest, though they can stand 12 inches tall so, the sprites, although very small, are much larger than tinkerbell. Personally, I ignore that and halve the size of the sprites as they are listed, at least.
Please don't forget the spell Enlarge/ Reduce along with Alter Self over all can change the mass of a given creature/ object by 50%. Then you have the Polymorph spell where you could really change the size of the target.
Finally! I found all the sacred treasures used to achieve my goals and finish my journey! Pixies: *I'm about to end this man's whole career.* EDIT: I have a feeling pixies would get behind meme culture quite well.
Good luck distinguishing with the playful flirting most pixies give to most beings who aren't ugly or a threat and actual interest before their attention has drifted to something else.
I'm about to start playing an Eladrin Archfey Warlock, with a STRONG connection to the work of the fey. So this is gonna be a REAL good resource for me. X3 eapecially if i end up deciding to go down the Chain Pact route, and focus on my casting. X3
Pixies... the banes of my existence. Every time I try to play an edgy bad guy, one or two of the players whip out a pixie and fuckin' ruin it. Had too many BBEG characters reduced to blubbering, altruistic messes by these insects.
@@jacobfreeman5444 any combination of that, literally drugging the evil out of one guy, seduction, warlock pacts gone awry, or just straight-up extortion. You name it.
Hi AJ ! ;) Nice video ;) Was wondering if you could do a video in the future some time about the ecology of the Far Realm ??? I'd love to hear more about the origins of the more weird monsters...
My present 2e campaign is very inner-plane focused, with the Fey Courts being scattered through the elemental planes. One of my PCs is a Pixie, she is associated with the elemental plane of Air, and her Fey Lord is the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
13:19 "You never eat pixies' food, unless you are going to... Well, basically it's drugs. It's drugs." 😂
Honestly the pixie mafia would be the scariest thing ever. The temperamental nature of fey would mean any conversation could blow up in your face in a hilarious way
Yeah i could see them with Joe Pesci New Yorker accent..."I amuse you?" ....You think i'm a f#&ckin clown!?"
Friend of mine made a Pixie Monk, we called him Bullet.
fitting.
@@AJPickett Yeah he took that charger feat so he got extra damage on charge attacks so he could live up to the name. He eventually joined a pirate crew funny enough. He was a Rowdy little pixie.
😂
Kazuma used STEAL
@@Randomdudefromtheinternet Take the charger feat. Your an invisible flying bullet. Its amazing. Only downside of the build when my friend played it was that the DM made him use Pixies d4 hit die because he was allowed to keep the at will invisibility.
Scotsman: “The wee folk stole my beer!”
Pixies: (laugh in Pixie)
In the game I'm running there is a Pixie companion assigned to a Kenku party member.
She can't fly and is on a quest to have her wings restored by her late queen.
I like the idea of a Pixie party member flying up all sneakily and stabbing the Big bad in the eye, distracting them at just the right moment for the other party members to strike, or perhaps preventing the Big Bad from completing the evil spell, or something like that...
heck, a Pixie Rouge would be neat...
using their small size and flight to get into all sorts of places, spy on stuff, e.t.c
I have run a game where a small band of player character pixies single-handedly disabled an entire army and their siege weapons, undetected, then infiltrated an archwizards citadel and caused his major transdimensional spell to backfire and turn him into a beholder.
@@AJPickett goddamn
@@AJPickett
That would probably be rather interesting to read...
Oh yea, pixies are brutal! They can send you to kidnap sentient strawberries just to make a tart...
I turned up the volume just as he said. "Pixies are gay..."
I have only ever played one session of D&D (group ended up not being able to schedule regularly) two of us including myself were pixies... the other players thought we were cute... until they all started failing spectacularly in combat against the orc guards of the prison we were starting in.... Use pixies however... we kept rolling wonderfully and gouging out the eyes (I had some ability to turn my fingers into claws and decided this would be an effective strategy) yea the other players were happy we were doing well but extremely distressed they were failing while a pair of pixies took out orc after orc.
@Hunter
Actually I think a small intelligent fast moving flying being armed with a sharp object, even if it was a glass shard would be quite terrifying even if they had no magic.
LOL I imagine a Conan type player getting up in the morning to see his Clydesdale warhorse turned pink, braided, and bedazzled in flowers =D
"what is best in life?".....
Also played a Pixie once
Went to the pub and ended up bathing in a goblet of ale until i was almost drunk down by a goblin thief.
Pixies are chaoticly chaotic.
Druid: "I summon pixies"
DM: "You have Pixies"
Druid: "I ask the pixies to make us fly"
DM: "You are now butterflies"
"You have pixies"
Damn.
XD i love it! ❤👍
"you have pixies"
so fantasy crabs?
Druid: FUCK YEA!!!
Bard: Well dont mind if I do
The tabaxi named Yea: ROLL CONSTITUTION ROLL CONSTITUTION ROLL CONSTITUTION!!!!
If I hear "hey listen" . In this video I will lose
I love everything fey in dnd, in 5e, the Feywild and its inhabitants are by far my #1 favorite part of the multiverse of dnd. i actually find the fey wild more appealing than the upper planes like bitopia (spelled wrong i think).
The mob run by pixies! Too funny... and scary!
think of the happiest things...it's the same as having wings.
Imagine pixie cavalry using faerie dragon “mounts”. Clouds of euphoria gas, random soldiers floating through the air and officers disappearing and reappearing seemingly at random…
You’d never see them coming, quite literally.
Drow OC: (Walks through the feywild.)
(Comes back second later cursing and screaming)
Party: What happened?
Drow OC: THEY WANTED TO PINCH MY SKIN BLACK AND BLUE BUT IM ALREADY BLACK SO THEY WOULDN'T STOP PINCHIIIHEHEHEINNNNGGG!!!" *Sobs uncontrollably*
That's hilarious😂😂😂
That cool and funny idea to throw at your players
Magically shrinking players then throwing some Pixies at them could be fun. Their tricks would take on new dangers.
Honey I shrank the murder hobos.
@@zacharyhawley1693 Zelda Minish Cap if your a Zelda fan or FernGully as well. I really like the potential in the idea.
Also, at that point the players would understand just how fast the pixies can fly.
@@AJPickett Seeing the pixies eye to eye could give the players a very up close and personal look at pixie life. I have to do this now in my campaign.
@@thelaughingstormbornagain1297 Pixie Life Yo.
Shadiversity's vid on what weapons fairys or pixies should made them sound op.
Well, they are like air-ninja-drow, so, yeah.
Pixie Friend “Hey, I made a pie! You want some?”
Player “What’s in it?”
Pixie “Blueberries...”
Player “Ok.” Takes bite.
Pixie “Blueberries laced with Glitter Millipede Toxin. Have a nice trip.”
Again, entirely accurate, except, pixies never tell you what is in it.
AJ Pickett It wouldn’t matter. In a few seconds you’d be too far gone and won’t remember what it told you anyways.
XD
Oh yes, there's an unexplored forest in my campaign. Gonna put crossovers to the feywild there, have some pixies
I played a Pixie noble that would sell his dust as a drug. That group called pixie stick candy kiddy cocaine because of being a powered sweet and sour candy
The last time I was in a D&D game, we had a Barbarian and an Illusionist in the same party and they fought like cats and dogs. At one point the Illusionist befriended a group of pixies and for the rest of the party's time in their woods they would shoot the Barbarian with their 'lose 5 minutes of memory' darts every time he yelled at said Illusionist. Which was quite often. We spent close to 3 RL months in those woods.
Wow, seeing some of the uses for Druidcraft, it really feels built for the pixie and it's desire to hide.
Absolutely.. who do you think Druids learn this stuff from?
AJ's Pixies and their magical pixie dust!
Reminds me of the Bart and Milhouse Squishy bender episode with the scene where Barney drinks some while they freak out haha
Escalla from the Paul Kidd books explained Pixies as being an offshoot of fairies, just less powerful and intelligent (although I think that was mainly a jab at other Fey folk). I always thought of them as slightly larger atomies, which are the small fey folk I think of when pixies are mentioned. The hierarchy of fey folk must be a bit confusing to most humanoids as the chaotic nature of Pixies seems to have little untamed for most societies (save gnome/halfling settlements).
I like Pixies. Mainly because of how care free, playful and pretty they are.
I agree with those reasons plus the shear wanton levels of heathen CHAOS that they wield.
I love using pixies in my games.
It always do funny to see my players faces contort in surprise when I perfectly mimic a high pitched knowledgeable squeaky child.
I hear pixies are pretty formidable opponents. Not fit to be fucked with when in packs especially
Faith Alexandria read a story in 3.5 about someone playing a pixie dragonfire adept. Took a feat to give himself the draconic fear ability.
1ft tall fairy flying overhead inspiring pants-wetting terror.
So I was in a campaign where the party ran into a group of pixies (well there territory) and started to bed down for the night. The next morning the wizard (my half elf) and the fighter (a female human) woke up with our long hair branded together. The druid (a dwarf) and the cleric (also a dwarf) where clean shaven and bold. Best random encounter we ever had.
*wrocks back & forth catatonically*
There are human sized pixies and fairies and they're almost impossible to distinguish from each other
And from the Sidhe
Rumor has it pixies and fairies fight in almost unending War over a thimble ... Yes that's right they fight literal wars over a thimble
Because our ancestors used to lump all of them into one group they called them elf-shot-arrow and they were blamed for everything you got arthritis, you have conjunctivitis, the Black plague wiped out half the town, your cows milk went sour, it won't stop raining or you're literally dying from pneumonia
all of it
elf-shot-arrow
The Great Thimble War.. XD Let us not forget all who were lost...
Pixie mafia? I'm gonna have to steal that one, lol.
Encounter concept: A Hag captures 20 or so pixies, just enough for a small community? Said Hag takes these pixie to her swamp/forest lair where she frees them while casting barriers around her territory, entrapping them. Would the Hags dark fey taint twist these pixie over time, turning them into a malicious security force??
Knowing pixies, they are extremely hard to keep entrapped like that, but, yeah its a very short fuse before you set off an explosion of evil from them... a very short fuse.
Pixie mortality, fearlessness in warfare ..
a.) Pixies have a set lifespan and then are reincarnated back into a pixie, hopefully. Some wizards/ sorcerers are know to give themselves pixie wings as soon they learn Alter Self.
b.) Pixies are immortal in the sense if they are .. killed .. in combat they may leave a corpus behind looking like a giant dragonfly, grass hopper or a frog and reform back in their lair. If their lair is destroyed they are reborn out of the ether at the start of their align season.
c.) As a once per day action they can teleport back to their lair and reform a fortnight later after Healing a creature for 5d8hp. " think of the fairies from Legend of Zelda."
d.) Pixies reflect the natural/ unnatural environment their lairs are in. So if a dragon or hag corrupts the forest, swamp, desert etc. than the pixies grow malicious in their pranks.
e.) If you ever .. kill .. a pixies, they will come back to haunt you till they grow bored.
f.) If a PC carries .. honey .. in a given pouch that the pixie can fit in, the pixie will hang out till all the honey is gone.
g.) As for pixie lairs, a comfortable bag that can carry a lot of nit'nacks or a bird cage will hold a traveling fairy's lair. They will appear as small song birds to hide in plain sight.
A contract is a contract, so a brawly grim face war veteran that looks like the last person you want to fight could be seen carrying a pole with a bird cage hanging from it holding a pixie lair. Such as an orc that is carrying a bird cage holding a yellow flinch song bird which happens to be a murder pixie from a hag's peat bog that is found of watching creatures drown.
h.) Suicide games or gabbling their wings is nothing to them since they will reform in a fortnight back in their lairs. As for their little treasure hoards in their lairs, it is a high crime to mess with them and an act of war. They will sleep deprive their enemy till they lose enough wisdom to go mad.
Entangle failed. *receives critical hit to the dome piece*
*Relevant and Supportive Comment*
(Now to re-create the band from the Land before Time, using our own polymorphed team members.)
Edit: Just realized that if they have the fly spell cast on them, then they won't have to worry about the Big Water.
it would be funny if the entire party was running pixies except one person and the pixies just act like the other party members conscience
or just literally running a full party of pixies
i feel like that would e both hilarious and chaos at the same time
I'm picturing the consciences from black and white.
In the MYTH book series you had the fairy godfather who was the mafia boss.
Here wuz Seamus!
6:30 that pixie knows how to work a pole….I’m mean stem 😂.
My favorite type of fairy is adhene gnome size fairy, astrai water fairy, sylph the one with bird wings power over wind, skrzak bat wings fairy living in labyrinth or cave they love dark areas and yosei I just imagine them with moth wings from Japanese so fluffy and soft
“Pixies are gay” -AJ Pickett
lol 🤣
listen here you muffler plucker...
@@AJPickett I am dead ☠️ 🤣
And so he did go forth inspired, to homebrew himself a clan of Nac Mac Feegle. Chaos ensues.
Crivvens!
See what I mean about the Fairies?
How about a pixie barbarian riding a raven and dual wielding lances?
Ravens are pretty big birds.
@@AJPickett
Hummingbird?
That sounds adorable!
In many of my campaigns, when I have a player whose personality is similar to a Pixie's, I go right to showing them the player character information on playing a Pixie. In high-magic campaigns, having a Pixie in your party just makes sense.
All of the Zelda video games, if Link doesn't have a pixie guide, then he can just catch them for last ditch back up healing.
Campaign rule, if PC has a sizable leather bag with honeycombs within them, a pixie will just move into the bag to help themselves out. As long as you have honey, you have a healing pixie. If you have a healing potion made from giant queen bee honey, well .. say goodbye to that costly few hundred gp healing potion. Its the pixies now. " hic-up."
@@krispalermo8133 Thanks for the smile. I now want to dig out my Hyrule home brew campaign world. I created it and ran it with my Zelda Super Nintendo gaming group friends when one said "I wish D&D was like this". We played it for a couple years before that group fell apart. Well, that was at least 4 moves ago, so it might have been lost in one of those moves. It was one notebook.
@@That80sGuy1972 My first game shop during the turn of the early 2000's when I was just 21yo and still only had AD&D ..
N64 Zelda Orcina of Time magazine guide map walk through was my shop's .. Main .. campaign game map book.
Shop own was cool at letting us bring the N64 into the shop to play. Could find print on demand for that gaming magazine.
N64 Castlevaina without dying or pulling off all the trick stop correctly took 6 to 7hr to play strait through. We played a level of the video game then ran it as AD&D then later with 3rdE. It took a week to table top that game with a group of eight players. If you count the spawning enemies compare to AD&D regular PC class or " Create your own playing class character, " One Player could not make it through the game alone. It was brutal.
Die and get Teleported back to your last save point. If the monsters didn't kill you, it was failing the Jump checks and drowning that got you. Sorry you landed in Poison/Disease water and the lizardmen drown you, restart.
I like the idea of the pixie mafia. Please tell us more.
Oh the hijinks my adventurous drow would have to go through running through a pixie kingdom because the one thing he didn't pick up on being a descendant of a few race is of the feywild, almost being more humanlike in interactions with them than not.
He can sense almost everything else in the gods damned realms but pixies urrrgghhhh.
Perhaps one day you could cover Redcaps AJ? I really liked reading about them in 3.5's MM3. :3
Your wish is my command. th-cam.com/video/RlCQ-UHM44M/w-d-xo.html
@@AJPickett Thank you.
Buddy, I gotta watch this whole ass channel
YES finally a video to stoke the fires for that fairy/pixie barbarian/ blade warlock i was planning.
Hey, A.J. I really appreciate your deeply nerdy videos. I'm running a Spelljammer campaign, and I was wondering if you were planning to do any more videos o the monsters and ecologies of that setting. I'm hoping to use a Radiant Dragon soon, and I event been able to find any lore beyond what's in the original box set. Btw, I'm using 5e as the format for this campaign, so I'm adapting the material as best I can. Thanks again for your work!
pixies are my favorite player race and im really good at playing one to the point my dm wont let me play them in anything but one shots because i constantly break his encounters :]
Your DM should design encounters around the party. That's what I do.
21:15
"Ok AJ don't let the pixies terrify you, just try and imagine them in there underwear... OH NO THERE HOOOOOT!"
I enjoyed this a lot. It's nice to learn up on things that dont cause nightmares every once in a while
Hey kid, wanna buy some Pixie Dust?!
Pixies can be kawaii AF or creepy as hell
1.) Would you rule that they have a place separate from the faywild or just their own regions?
2.) Are they immune to things like dragonfear or a fear spell?
3.) Are they willing to sell/trade/gift their pixie dust? Can a non-pixie use the weapon effects?
4.) I thought that the dream realm was in the ethereal plane, is it connected to both of them?
5.) Dose the shadowfel have the same connection to the lower-plane?
6.) Can you be affected directly by the weird logic of the feywild, or the said daydreams of a deity?
7.) Are eladrin able to understand this like the native species, or just enough to get by on the plane?
This would be a good kick-off for that Pest series.
If i remember right, the intermediate rules set had a supplement to play faeries. Pixies were listed, as were pouhka, sprites, satyrs, etc... would have been in the mid 1980's
3:20 "wrestle".
? That's what he said
@@alucardbird_of_hermes9785 I'll explain it when you're older.
So in my last campaign, I actually had a player become a pixie. See, I gave my party a deck of many things....that I custom made. Meaning they had my deck of many things. One card would have the person turn into a pixie. So my tortle wizard became one of the fairy folk. It was great! Until he got eaten...
I was like yay! And then.. ooooh.
@@AJPickett ya, he tried to take on a djinn by himself at 6th level. There wasn't much I could do for him. It's actually a really fun story if you're interested
@@seamusfish7009 always!
@@AJPickett I was actually making that story into a video. It's up on youtube now, I can send you the link. Though I don't wanna link my stuff in your comments, seems a bit.....wrong. I'll send it to ya over Twitter!
I have a reocuring party NPC who is a goth pixie caller Orchidra. She swears like a sailor and can be easily bribed or destracted by flowers she can use to make her own dresses.
Every time I have used her she always becomes the parties favorite character. Oh and if you call her a fairy she will unleash a flurry of insults at you.
Random PC or npc, " What a cute little sprite !"
Orchidra, " Sprite .. Sprite, .. I show you a Sprite ! Who the bleeping bleep is Cute ! .. I .. AM .. GoRgEoUs ! Forget the toast & honey, Give .. ME .. Mead ! "
@@krispalermo8133 pretty much, she has a bit of a drinking problem to deal try and deal with all the trauma of being an adventurer
Pixies are gay. In the traditional sense of the word.
Proceeds to describe Richard Simmons.
PIERCER & ROPER
_Theme Music Starts and the Piercer & Roper Logo Pops on Screen_
Announcer: “Last time, on Piercer & Roper!” _Montage starts as Announcer continues_ “Our boys in blue ran a brief undercover operation to catch a Derro, who was dealing Pink Ooze Powder. However, when Roper tried to make the arrest the Derro bolted, and almost got away. Luckily, Piercer was able to keep the perp pinned down long enough for Roper to catch up and cuff him. With this Derro dust dealer caught, Roper dragged him into a back alley, ready to start an impromptu, and illegal, interrogation.” _Scene starts off with Roper slamming the Derro against a wall_
Roper: “ALRIGHT, DIRTBAG, START TALKING!!!”
Derro: “I don’t know shit man!”
Roper: “OK, WE’LL DO THIS THE HARD WAY THEN!!!” _looks down at Piercer_ “START CLIMBING!!!”
Piercer: _Stares expressionlessly_
Roper: “I SAID CLIMB!!!”
Piercer: _Begins to slowly drag himself up the wall next to the Derro_
Roper: “THIS IS A 4 STORY BUILDING!!! THAT MEANS YOU ABOUT 30 SECONDS TO TELL ME WHAT I WANT TO KNOW UNTIL MY PARTNER REACHES THE ROOF AND TAKES ANOTHER DIVE!!! HE’LL AIM FOR YOUR FEET, BUT SOMETIMES HIS AIM ISN’T SO GOOD FROM THAT HIGH UP!!!”
Derro: “You’re crazy man! I already told you, I don’t know shit man! This is police brutality!!”
Roper: “WHERE’S THE SHIT COMING FROM??”
Piercer: _is on wall_
Derro: “I don’t know man! I swear I don’t know!!”
Piercer: _reaches roof and takes position on the overhang_
Roper: “LAST CHANCE!”
Derro: “Please don’t do this man!”
_Roper give Piercer a nod and her drops, landing inches from the Derro’s feet as the perp screams_
Roper: “LOOKS LIKE HE MISSED!!! WE’LL JUST HAVE TO TRY AGAIN!!!”
Piercer: _Begins to drag himself up the wall again_
Derro: “I’ll never snitch!!”
Roper: “OH SO YOU DO KNOW SOMETHING!!! GET TO TALKING!!! I DONT THINK HE’S GONNA MISS AGAIN.”
Derro: “You’re all talk. You won’t do it!”
Piercer: _As he drags himself back into position above, one drip of sweat rolls down his conical forehead and drips off, hitting the Derro’s nose on its way to the ground_
Derro: “If I snitch, they’ll kill me man!”
Roper: “WHAT DO YOU THINK WE’RE GONNA DO IF YOU DON’T TALK?!?!?!”
Piercer _Lands on the ground, sticking into the cobblestone street barely a hairs width from the Derro’s feet_
Roper: “LOOKS LIKE ITS TIME FOR ROUND 3!!! START CLIMBING PIERCER!!!”
Derro: “Ok! I’ll talk!”
_Screen goes black_
Announcer: “Piercer & Roper have “convinced” the dealer to talk. Will he lead them to the supplier or just higher ranking dealer? Will the Captain find out about their extreme tactics? Will Piercer & Roper have to sit through yet another “Police Brutality And You” seminar? Find out next time on (Theme Music Starts) PIERCER & ROPER!!!!!!”
I think I might add little Mean Streets of Menzoberranzan bits to the end of videos, now and then, see how it goes.
AJ Pickett I actually I didn’t finish this post. I’m about to edit in the rest of it. I was bored to I came up with a part 2 for the last Piercer & Roper idea I left on the P&R Live Stream video. I’m probably gunna keep leaving more as ideas come to me, feel free to ignore them and tell me to knock it off if it gets annoying.
Congrats AJ! Its a meme! What will you call the little bundle of joy?
Continued from Piercer & Roper Livestream.
In 2nd ed I played a pixy assassin named Robin the Goodfella. He worked for the Fairly Godfather .
I would love a series on all the playable character races and an in depth look at each one
because until you said it in this video I had no idea pixies where a playable race
it would be interesting to explore the playable character races in depth
I still want the campaign setting with roppers as cops
I accept this responsibility.
Pixie warlock spellsniper sounds very annoying
pixies are powerful!
What happens if you sniff pixi dust? Asking for a friend
one of the four random effects, disadvantage on the saving throw. (however, if you want to have more fun with it, Movie Lore from Willow tells us that it causes the inhaler to fall temporarily in love with the first living being they see).
Thank you for this!!! My campaign is very forest/fey themed ❤️
I like to think that the lore about fey primordials remembering reality being differently arranged is kind of a meta-game wink and nod to us oldies who prefer elements of older D&D editions. I personally just can't get used to the Feywild and Shadowfell. I'm still stuck with 2nd edition Great Wheel cosmology.
Ironically, it is back to being the wheel, the shadowfell is just the demiplane of shadow, and the Feywild is the celestials mystic forest zones (which includes a few of the forested layers of various non-lawful good planes), so, its the same, but different. :)
Oh man, so much mischief to be bad
More videos of the feywild and fey, more I say...
please.. :)
Pixies or as I know them. Fairy speed bumps.
Ahoy hoy, AJ! Great video! Are you ever gonna do a video on Obox Ob, the first Obereth? Ive got a pet theory that he IS the shard of chaos (based on your videos and a few things yoive said) I feel like he deserves about a half hour video. Super fastenating stuff, my brother. I listen every day. Have a great day!
Indeed, the video on Obox Ob, Juiblex, Asmodeus and Tharizdun... is coming
AWESOME!!! You are the Lore Master of Faerun.
Definitely my favorite are the fey and the fey wild. Very well done AJ. Thanks from an old dm for all your videos. Too bad we didn't have this back in the beginning
What types of fey actually compose the fey courts? Does it ever say? Or just up to the DM?
I could see Le Shay's being in the court, but at the same time, that might be too anchoring for them. How do you run it?
I've never had players deal directly with the fey court before, they only ever meet minor archfey and even then, they are usually WAY out of the player characters comfort zone.
lol, ALL OF THEM! ! !
In 4E when the Fae Courts of the Feywild became a big deal , they were mainly composed of a type of greater Eladrin call Eladrin Nobles I think.
They were more like greater demons and devils than a typical fae race and likewise the mose powerful were unique individuals like demon princes and archdukes.
Do my “special” brownies make me a pixie? 🧚♂️
Well if you eat a brownie there will be a little fey in you for a while
No they just make you high.
In fact I'm pretty sure you were high when you made that comment.
Wait are there pixies in the under dark?
Those things must SUUUUUUCK
Yeah, fungus forests are still forests.
@@AJPickett I had Mushroom Pixies for those forests. They were normal Pixes for the most part, but socially a bit more brutally Underdark adapted. Deep Gnomes protected their mushroom forests for a reason.
I had a funny idea when playing as a pixie
go around the pub drugging evryones beer for shits and giggles
and maybe have a mini bag of holding full of pixie dust just to dip arrows (toothpicks) into it
I want to play as a pixie now
I would obviously want a mini bag of holding specifically to carry a humans worth of pixi dust
and that brings up the question if you had more than a pinch of pixie dust could you theoretically cast higher level spells
Rouge pixie
Pixie cleric
Pixie halfing...oh my the possibilities.
Pixie dragon rider? A pixie and his faerie dragon friend?
Do Pixies ever inhabit urban environments? I could see them causing havoc simply to amuse themselves and to keep an eye on on the machinations of adventurers who might be interested in conducting operations in the woodlands where most of their communities are located...
Almost replied the typical " of course, this is D&D, make it your game."
I say most likely not. That not a never ever, though.
Isolated, natural homes are what they live in, so that literally contradicts a component what makes a pixie - be a pixie.
Unusual & rare case of wanting to live in a metro area (but probaby in the least traveled part of the city park, a nearby nature reserve/preserve, in the zoo etc) possibly.
Or are you meaning a highly populated fey civilization?
I wouldn'tbe able to name them, but this is just an idea:
A variant faerie could be completely cool with living in towers as if they were just metal and rock trees. A place similar to Ravnica comes to mind.
By the description of unseelie vs seelie: my opinion is that a city-dweller would be unseelie. Seelie means silly. Unseelie just means not silly or serious/stoic. You could take that and run with it.
In my campaigns they do. As mentioned, they are underworld bosses in Sigil when I run planescape games.
I always thought the wolf blowing down the house was an allegory for powerful winds.
as in "remember kids, if you're going to build a house near high winds, use stone and not straw."
Which fae race would be your typical large-insect sized, 3-4" tall Tinker Bell type faerie? I was thinking Atomie, but now I'm wondering if it's the Pixie
I was about to say Grig, because you mentioned insect... yes the Atomie is one of the smallest, though they can stand 12 inches tall so, the sprites, although very small, are much larger than tinkerbell. Personally, I ignore that and halve the size of the sprites as they are listed, at least.
Please don't forget the spell Enlarge/ Reduce along with Alter Self over all can change the mass of a given creature/ object by 50%.
Then you have the Polymorph spell where you could really change the size of the target.
Finally! I found all the sacred treasures used to achieve my goals and finish my journey!
Pixies: *I'm about to end this man's whole career.*
EDIT: I have a feeling pixies would get behind meme culture quite well.
No doubt. I'm certain there are a few posting on 4chins right now.
Yeah, they would be Instagramming like crazy.
I love your explanations about reality as it is and as it was before. As the reasoning of how strange some creatures are. They are stranded remnants.
Dont eat Pixie food... Its... Well drugs... Don't do drugs kids...
**slurs** Don' tell me wudda' doo! **falls over**
*pixie befriends children & is delighted to feed them whenever they feel hungry* 🧚♀️✨👌
Pixies are gay you heard it here first people.
They love to be happy!
Good luck distinguishing with the playful flirting most pixies give to most beings who aren't ugly or a threat and actual interest before their attention has drifted to something else.
I'm about to start playing an Eladrin Archfey Warlock, with a STRONG connection to the work of the fey. So this is gonna be a REAL good resource for me. X3 eapecially if i end up deciding to go down the Chain Pact route, and focus on my casting. X3
i got one lvl 4, went tome. ur gonna have a lot of fun!
Half-Elven (eladrin) Archfey Warlock here, it's definitely a lot of fun
Thanks AJ.
Pixie warlock, a faerie warlock exist in MTG, could one exist in D&D?
Absolutely
Love the content
Pixies... the banes of my existence. Every time I try to play an edgy bad guy, one or two of the players whip out a pixie and fuckin' ruin it. Had too many BBEG characters reduced to blubbering, altruistic messes by these insects.
What did they do, hit them in the feels?
@@jacobfreeman5444 any combination of that, literally drugging the evil out of one guy, seduction, warlock pacts gone awry, or just straight-up extortion. You name it.
@@HumbleMemeFarmer please don't tell me it was the good members of the party that came up with these.
@@jacobfreeman5444 you know it was.
@@HumbleMemeFarmer Ah, the wonders of making alignment a suggestion...or maybe of having psychopath players. Take your pick.
Hi AJ ! ;) Nice video ;) Was wondering if you could do a video in the future some time about the ecology of the Far Realm ??? I'd love to hear more about the origins of the more weird monsters...
Certainly.
@@AJPickett Awesome ;) thnx! ;) I'll be watching my alerts closely ! ;)
There are tales of a warforged who smuggled hallucinogenic mushrooms through half of the known multiverse for the pixie mafia.
Story checks out.
Tell us more! :D
My present 2e campaign is very inner-plane focused, with the Fey Courts being scattered through the elemental planes.
One of my PCs is a Pixie, she is associated with the elemental plane of Air, and her Fey Lord is the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
11:10 Regal bearings indeed😎
Good video AJ
I am just here for the Nasturtium, Brassica Pizza. Maybe a bit of Moonflower popcorn? Sorry I forgot! You Mortals like Mead. =D
Are you going to go over primordials soon? They seem really powerful for not being 'gods'.
Yes.
Rule # 1) Don’t Fuck With The Pixies.
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A rule to live by, or wish you died by. 🧚♀️🧚♂️✨