5 Medieval-Inspired Feywild Encounters | Worldbuilding the Feywild for D&D Part 7
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2024
- I'm turning the Feywild into a playable realm for our Dungeons and Dragons campaign, focusing in this video on a few encounters you could run, all inspired by medieval literature.
Thank you as always, and comment below any Feywild or D&D topics you want to see me cover!
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Perceval, the Story of The Grail by Chrétien de Troyes
Lanval by Marie de France
A DISPUTACIOUN BETWYX ÞE BODY AND WORMES: A TRANSLATION by Jenny Rebecca Rytting
"St. Erkenwald" by Unknown
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Using medieval texts to build encounters is genius. I’m running a mausritter game and I want to add in some fae elements, these videos have been very inspiring
That’s so fun! I’m glad they’ve helped!
I am so glad I stumbled upon your channel. What great videos you’ve created.
Recentl I saw a retelling of the Elf-Mound story by Hans Christian Andersen and the description of fey food (in this case Fey included goblins, trolls, the old man of the sea and his daughters, and many other) was things like rusty church nails and church glass, fungus seed soup, saltpeter champagne and small baby fingers.
It was so grotesque BUT it is not I a mortal who is intended to eat that, it's what fey food looks to the fey, or under true sight.
I love using those sort of unsettling details, they're so good!
I like the idea of a Perceval NPC; Pair someone who is a Knight but doesn't live up to the code and someone who is an all but perfect paragon of Knighthood but isn't one with him, someone who is neither but still blindly wants to be one and see what interactions play out between the three and the players
Perceval also consistently proves his physical prowess and abilities without much training at all! That could be dangerous when combined with his severe lack of knowledge.
Woah, the part with worms was unexpected. Interesting bunch of stories to inspire story hooks / encounters.
Thanks! I hoped they’d provide some unique, fun options.
Thank the algorithm, I needed some Feywild ideas for me campaign. Old literature is a really cool place to pull from! Definitely subbed, please do more of this!
Thank you! I'm glad it could offer some inspiration, I definitely plan on doing more!
Yes! Perfect timing to stumble across this. Thank you so much, this is the perfect help I needed for my upcoming game. Definitely got a new subscriber.
Love it!! Thank you!
I'm wondering if you've ever played Journey from Greycastle Press, it's a little solo journaling game that allows you to do these kinds of deep dives into spaces like the ones you've come up with, it could really help you flesh out the feywild as you continue to focus on it. It reminded me because the sorts of questions you were asking after proposing the concepts of the encounters are kind of how the game prompts you to flesh out more details of the world you're journaling about!
From one worldbuilder to another, if your natural writing response is going "maybe THIS would be a thing or think about how THIS would change it", I think you'd have a lot of fun with it.
I have not, but I’ll absolutely look into it! It sounds very interesting.
Thanks for sharing, these were cool!
Thank you!
This dope! Well done, algorithm that showed me this! Subscribed... Feywild is gonna start being pretty big in my story. Definitely gonna have a stream theme. Can't wait to check out these other videos!
I love a good fey stream! And thank you!
Loving your video series'! As a new DM without a lot of background on the "canon" dnd Feywild lore it's been really neat to get your take on it as well as some ideas, should I ever decide to run anything involving it.
Some thoughts I had from this video: riffing on the body and the worms, it could be super creepy and strange if the party could hear the talking but not the body and worms themselves (at least not without some investigating). So they enter this abandoned church or tomb, hear voices coming from somewhere about someone eating / being eaten, but can't tell if it's some creature talking about them or just a conversation they're somehow overhearing.
St. Erkenwald's story made me think of a snow white-like story line. Maybe the party could come across this perfectly preserved body, with a glass coffin enchanted to perpetually cast Gentle Repose on the entombed body. Who is this mysterious person? Should they be reawakened? Maybe a certain Fey faction wants the body kept under the spell and another wants them raised and the party has to choose who to help.
I was reading your comment and literally said out loud “write that down WRITE THAT DOWN!!” Such great ideas, thank you!
Wow I loved these ideas! I'm going to check out your other feywild videos, I want to run a fey themed arc in my campaign.
Thank you! I hope they help!
Your young LeShay reminds me a bit of the original Star Trek character... Trelane maybe?. Modern Trek fans consider him a young Q. Your idea sounds even better than the old Star Trek episode.
In my setting, the Fey (elves) were at war with Humanity until they mysteriously disappeared. However their weapons of war, Monstrosities and other fey remained to roam wild.
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Thank you!!
@@feywildfiend Of course!! Your videos give me so much inspiration it's unreal, your ability to make really interesting things clear-cut and concise is just so magical to me
Okie dokie there's a lot to go on here but interesting detail that I noticed the tent in particular being red with a gilt Eagle in it reminds me of a Roman command tent I don't know why but those were their power colors red and purple but ironically circling back to Arthur and the Mythos a strange interpretation of Oberon I heard of was that he was the love child of Morgan la fey and Julius Caesar so I made the summer Court with Oberon as the masculine leader Ultra conservative and more like reflecting summer the hottest time of the year when there's plenty of food resources and tensions are rising because of the Heat as the warring period of time but as a reference the Roman standards were usually golden eagles it was a symbol of Roman Imperium expanding outward and legalistically speaking kind of annexing the ground as they conquered it
That's a really cool combination of lore!
@@feywildfiend many thanks I thought so as well you can imagine what I find a weird cross section like that from cultures that don't necessarily think alike I'm going make some use of it somewhere apologies if this didn't seem all that intelligible my phone is being particularly pugnacious
If you ever write any of this up, structure it at all, I’d gladly pay for a copy
Thank you so much! I've really enjoyed reading your comments on these videos. I've considered doing something like that, but I would definitely want to make it expansive enough to be worth it, so it would take some time for sure.
@@feywildfiend it just seems like that’s where this is heading 😁 like I said I’ve got a vested interest here, 1/2 of my players are fey creatures and I want to do their backstories justice, so these are coming at the perfect time. Needed to find out about goblin lore and TH-cam pointed me here 😊
Any info about centaurs would be great too, it seems like they didn’t have much until the MtG books, can’t find anything about their progenitor besides Zeus and a cloud irl mythos. *edit nvm just found Skerrit the centaur god lol
Your videos are super great, and your charisma stat is surely high enough for this :D keep it up, eager for the next one