How to run The Feywild in Dungeons and Dragons
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- Ready to take your Dungeons and Dragons campaign into The Feywild? This video covers essential lore and tips for a Feywild D&D game.
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I love the „time must be observed“ thing it is so easy to understand and so terrifying should the party lose their method of observation.
Thank you! Hopefully it gets the right balance between being mystical and weird, and also giving players a sense that there's a fair system in place
@@TalesArcane Another thing I like about it is that it gives time itself an alien character, almost like it is a being. I can't wait for my group to run into this.
Now we need a video about the Shadowfell
Absolutely! A lot of people have suggested that I do a series on different planes, so this is going to be high on the list.
In my homebrew world, the fey is devoid of the flow of time: time is only relative to those who enter or exit the realm when the initial portal was opened. A portal opened yesterday into the feywild would always open up into yesterday, no matter how long you’ve been on the other side. The only way to get to a portal that opened in the future is to find a portal that was opened after whatever portal you initially came through.
Fantastic man. As you know I'm a big fan of your channel. Really really like these longer vids. Appreciate the work man!!!! Feywild is such a cool setting
Thanks for the support mate! I'm hoping to almost entirely switch to long-form vids in the coming year, they're more work to make but it's so nice not to have to cram everything into 60 seconds 😅
As a German, having grown up with these fairytales, I just love the Fey's and Feywild's vibe. I'm looking forward to letting my players stumble into it, thank you for the great vid and the helpful tips!
I'm glad you found the video useful! German folklore seems to be the heart of the fairytale archetype in many ways, definitely a foundational piece of the whole Feywild.
I prefer two split my courts in two. So that the Unseelie has clubs and spades as emblems, and their function focusing on elaborate almost gothic structures with a view pointed towards magical labour while Seelie have Hearts and Diamonds, focusing on decadence, and self expression. While they have opposing factors you can get corner cases where the two courts cooperate in projects.
I love that! I've seen some people dividing them into seasons as well - Spring Court and Summer Court (Seelie) and Autumn Court and Winter Court (Unseelie). Love the Alice and Wonderland thing you bring in with the playing card references.
You’re a hero. I’m running a Feywild campaign soon and I needed an assist
Glad I could help! And good luck with the campaign, Feywild is such a cool setting
Great video. You earned a sub. Some really solid advice here. Love darkward/lightward. BTW- I recommend Tales of the Old Margreve by Kobold Press if you want some amazing dark fairy tale adventures to run. They don't take place in Fairyland or the Feywild per se, but adjacent to it in a magical sentient forest.
Oooooo fey compass and pocket watch. Very cool. I will be putting that detail in my notes, especially the part where it gets stolen and now time itself is out of control.... IDEAS BREWING!!!!!
I'm glad you like it! It's a fun system I think, gives the players a fair shot at keeping time on their side, but introduces some new stakes if it goes missing. It also means that, it they forget to track time and things get weird, it's not my fault 😅
Big fan of your channel and videos! You’re encounters and adventures on Patreon have been super helpful especially for someone like me that doesn’t have a lot of time on my hands to homebrew or prep a session from scratch. Thanks again and keep up the great work! 🤘🏻😄
Thank you so much for supporting the Patreon! It's great to know the content is useful to fellow DMs - I'll keep it coming 💪
One notion I quite like for managing time in a feywild encounter\arc would be to have the players demeanor set the pace of times passage - if the players move with urgency, time in the real world moves more slowly, if they a lax time in the Fae slows down and the Real accelerates by - I probably wouldn't state that outright, but drop several hints early on for that "Oh..." moment when they are gone for a long weekend in the Fae and come back and 20 years has passed.
I really like the idea of players getting distracted or moving at a more relaxed pace causing time to move faster elsewhere - you get lured off the road by a group of merry wine-drinking satyrs, and suddenly time is slipping away.
Another great video 📷
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Just discovered your channel yesterday and you have been such a huuuuge help man, thanks a lot for these videos
I run faywild in my games kinda like how the Dresden files handels the faerie. In some aspects similar to the ”dnd canon” explanations but still different, and ofcourse i had to throw some of myself in the mix too.
I got a notification!! We're back, mate! Also, great content and explanation of the Feywild, some of the strangest areas in DnD.
It's such a great setting, especially when you lean into the darker, stranger parts of it. Glad you got the notification on this one! Onwards and upwards 💪
Great ideas, thank you for the video!
I'd love something like this on ravenloft/the demiplane of dread
You're a beast man good stuff!!
Mighty fine lookin' 'stache, my friend! 🤠
Thank you mate! We'll see how long I can commit to this one 😅
Your videos are such a fantastic help for someone like myself just starting out DMing, both the short form and longer content are just brilliant! Such a great mix of canon lore, inspiration and gameplay mechanics. Keep them coming dude, would love to see some more videos like this one on some of the other planes and how to run them.
Thank you for saying so! It's always so great to hear that the videos are useful to other DMs, especially to those who are starting out. And a series of videos on the other planes sounds like a plan!
Also, I think people underestimate how motivating comments like this are for smaller creators like myself - it means a lot!
@@TalesArcane Honestly hands down the most useful content I’ve found in giving me inspiration but also practical application of these plot hooks and themes, looking forward to more!
Plus I know what you mean dude, as a fellow small creator I know it can take some encouragement sometimes, especially putting so much effort into longer form videos, I feel you dude!
The series of novels by Jim Butcher ''The Dresden Files'' portrays the Seelie and Unseelie very well IMHO. The author calls them the Summer and Winter courts but they are basically the same.
Another way to implement currency is to allow gold but the prices with gold are all over the place and maybe as a hidden treat make some magic items worth very little in gold but high in other fry wild currencies
Love to see the channel growing. Besides can I plant the idea of making some low fantasy setting content?
Great idea 👏 I could do a video with tips on running a low fantasy setting, that would be cool!
Read the dresden files if you want good representation of the fey and the feywild
This was nice to listen too as I tried to make a wild beyond the witchlight game but now its going to be less a bible and more a dictionary.
My strange and whimsical currency is just electrum pieces. Only electrum, and no they will not exchange for your useless gold and silver coins. Have to melt them down and combine them if you dare.
Are you thinking on doing the shadowfell
Lightward and darkward in the fey realm? You wouldn't happen to be a kingkiller chronicles fan by any chance? 😁
LOVE the Kingkiller books, all...two of them! Or three, I guess, including the the novella. And yes, that's where I got the idea! Although it's been a while since I struggled through that whole Felurian section, so I was going off my vague memories. Great representation of Fey as a concept in general in those books.
@@TalesArcane the name of the wind was the first book I listened to on audible. Fantastic voice actor and I highly recommend it if you ever wanted to go through those books again. It made that whole part with Felurian much easier to get through... But I am up in the high teens of how many times I've listened to both books so it could just be that I have a problem 😅.
I completely agree that Patrick Rothfuss did an excellent job of capturing the peculiarity of the fey. Thanks for the Hellboy recommendation. I'll have to look into that.
@@jasonroche1090 This is a very random coincidence but NotW was my first audible download too! The version I listened to had Rupert Degas as the narrator, genuinely one of the best voice actors I've come across.
@@TalesArcane I have to agree with this. I've actually found it hard to get into any other audiobooks as I keep comparing them to the excellent job that Rupert Degas did. I started The lies of Loch Lamora and I had to buy the book and read it instead (Still need to finish it). I just started "A forest of Vanity and Valour". Liking it so far.
These are all such fantastic ideas. I love the idea that emotion and intention are so important! I'll definitely be incorporating a lot of these ideas
Good ref to Sauchiehalll st 😂
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Hey, speaking about fae like stories and inspiration, I'd really like to mention the comics series "Fables" which is pretty much exactly about all that, plus it's absolutely awesome ! xDD
Thanks for the vid, really digging your work ! :)
Check out the "Dresden files" book series.
Modern setting but it's all there. Very entertaining
I'll absolutely check it out! I've seen it around, but never read it. Thanks for the recommendation!
@@mrkojak-ci1zm I saw a lot of people talking about Dresden when I was researching this video actually, I'll have to get in on this. I love what I've heard about the books, that kind of magical noir is right up my alley.
@@TalesArcane you won't be disappointed.
I'll just be vague and say that each book as you go is "more" (of everything,lol)
This is really helpful
Could a player have a character background that they were stuck in the Feywild for like a year or two? could they offer their expertise in dealing with certain npcs and locations? Or would that be too game breaking?
You literally predicted the feylost background lmao
Excellent as always! And timely too , as my players may end up in the Feywild soon. 👍 Thank you! ♥️ The cat, scene stealer. 😃
Lily the cat always gets annoyed when I've been filming for too long, she had to get into the spotlight 😂 Thank you mate! Glad this one could be useful for you 👊
Glaswegian watching.
I am dead.😆
Garage is The Gloaming Court. A dark, sinister place that leaves me feeling tired and sad.
@@TalesArcane sounds more like unders at the catty honestly...
Day 1 of asking for "How to run Mechanus in Dungeons and Dragons"
I think I'm going to start a series on different planes, so that'll definitely go in there!
I've been building out the courts and building out the Exandrian feywild with the Seelie, Summer, and Unseelie courts being their own regions as expected (spring, summer, and winter respectively), but Im also building out an eladrin region (autumn) with a court of their own and a source of lore for changelings to mirror them. Eladrin were said to be influenced by the feywild and it affected them in a way where they are colorful and can change visually. there were major catastrophic events in the Material plane during the Calamity, scars on Exandria where deserts were made among other things. Since the Fey is a mirror, i thought those scars would make the feywild become essentially featureless.
The Neverlands colors are muted if they're there at all, instead of being fluid the nature might be more brittle than expected, and an elf who is born in one of those regions or one who lives there long enough has a chance to have offspring who is a changeling (much like tieflings being decendents of a parent who made a deal. that sort of thing)
because of their potential and seen as being moldable, they are sought after and higher powers across the realm hope to find changelings so they can be raised into that specific court's motivations and needs.
I'm bringing my PC's to the Feywild this weekend! This definitely helps, thank you and amazing content! 👍
Thanks for this! I have my party stuck on an Island with a bunch of wacky things going on, just for a side trip that I thought was funny, and for something different. But, between sessions a player asked me directly if they were in the Fey, and until they said that, I hadn't planned it that way. But I think I will have a Fey tell them in this place the planes are 'soft' - so, a place of overlap between The Fey and Prime - and to get back home, now I think I want them do it through the actual Feywild, so I found this by looking for resources to help me do that. I really appreciate the info here, and those comics are en route. Big help, friend - you got a new fan.
Amazing. Been wanting to run a fey wild for some time but always been a bit nervous about getting it right. This has helped a lot.
Such an amazing video!! Out of curiosity, where are those background maps from? The ones with the floating palaces, I mean
Thank you, mate! They're all made by me, using a map maker called Inkarnate.
@@TalesArcane You're welcome!
And that's very cool, I was reading "the Palace of Twilight" and "the Bazaar of the Bizarre" and I got genuinely intrigued XD
@@Micaerys That map is actually available via my Inkarnate profile, so if you have Inkarnate premium you can download and edit it yourself, if you want!
@@TalesArcane UUuuuh, noted! I'll have to check it! :D
Excellent video with some great ideas. My party ran to the fey wild to escape death but cannot waste time so the whole concept of time distortion is the most dangerous factor.
Thank you for this! I don’t know if you’ve made it before but a video on the Underdark would be awesome.
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Omg I started to watch your video bc I wanted to make a campaign based on Hellboys The Wild Hunt cycle. When I reached the end of your video my jaw dropped. The main NPC that helps the party is pretty much a copy paste of Hellboy himself. Great stuff
No way! Yeah, Hellboy and the whole mythology of Mignola's world is one of the biggest influences on my Feywild stuff, I think it just captures perfectly the sense of a dark otherworldliness lurking out of sight behind the mundane world.
Another great video 👍
This was really awesome, do Shadowfell as well! (Maybe a video mini series of realms etc?)
I could definitely try a video on the Shadowfell, though the 5e lore is even more vague on that one 😅 Could be fun to bring in some material from previous editions though!
Your fey time solution is wonderful. So much flavor and a great mechanic.
Glad you liked it! Hopefully it keeps some of that fairytale otherworldliness while still being practical enough for players to feel like they're getting a fair treatment.
I was just contemplating how to deal with the Feywild in my game, this video is really helping me along!
That's great to hear, glad it got to you at the right time!
Thanks dude i have been waiting for this btw i am the one who requested this vid. love your channel always have great vids
Yes you were! I was actually trying to find your username when I was making it so I could shout you out as the person who prompted me to do it. Hope it was worth the delay!
@@TalesArcane worth it
i know it will take a while but could you please do something on the forgotten realms
Forgotten Realms as a whole? That's a big video, but one that I will definitely do!
@@TalesArcane thank you so much i can’t wait
Thanks I appreciate this.
Happy to help! Good luck in all the games to come 👊
This is great!
Thank you mate! 😁