MM2: Fey-Touched Template

[NeghVar]

*sheepish grin* So I guess nobody cares that there's already such material available on the boards?

No offense to Neoxn . . . err, Neorxwa . . . um, Neo. Your stuff is cool, but I want to promote our stuff too.

Wow...I thought that was what the Natural D20 Forum was for? Last time I checked, this was still the General RPG Forum?

Just causing trouble...

 

[RangerWickett]

Well it's not Nat20 stuff; it's RangerWickett stuff. But yes, I'm being a little too eager, and I'm sorry if I come across as rude. If I have, blame me, and not Nat20. Sorry.

 

[edbonny]

Feytouched, neorxnawang and language...

Alas, I cannot reprint my feytouched creature as it is the property of Wizards. But interest in feytouched both here and on the Wizards board has given me the idea of proposing an article for Dragon filled with feytouched beings. What do y'all think?

And for those who would mock first without inquiring about what they make fun of, I offer a little enlightenment. The word "neorxnawang" is Old English (anglo-saxon) for "paradise" or "heaven." Obviously, "neorxnawang" dropped out of the English language in favor of "heofon" which became our modern day "heaven." That may have been a good thing because what PC would want to venture to the Twin Neorxnawangs of Bytopia? My personal take on "Neorxnawang" is that, as an ancient word, it is paradise lost.

- Ed Bonny

 

[Aeolius]

Re: Feytouched, neorxnawang and language...

But interest in feytouched both here and on the Wizards board has given me the idea of proposing an article for Dragon filled with feytouched beings.

Perhaps I'd add my half-hag template and hagtouched beings, then.

 

[bwgwl]

Re: Re: Feytouched, neorxnawang and language...

Perhaps I'd add my half-hag template and hagtouched beings, then.

eeewwww... i wouldn't want to be touched by a hag.

seriously though, i'd be extremely interested in both a fey-touched article and your hag ideas.

 

[Geron Raveneye]

Feytouched

Alas, I cannot reprint my feytouched creature as it is the property of Wizards. But interest in feytouched both here and on the Wizards board has given me the idea of proposing an article for Dragon filled with feytouched beings. What do y'all think?

- Ed Bonny

Definitely for it, two thumbs up...hey, can anyone of the transmuters here get me a few more hands?

 

[Kai Lord]

Re: Feytouched, neorxnawang and language...

Alas, I cannot reprint my feytouched creature as it is the property of Wizards. But interest in feytouched both here and on the Wizards board has given me the idea of proposing an article for Dragon filled with feytouched beings. What do y'all think?

I'd love to see that.

 

[Tanis Half-Munchken]

Re: Re: MM2: Fey-Touched Template

Feytouched was not a template but the (what I hoped to be) first in a line of races like the planetouched aasimar or the chaond. It seemed to me that with so many fey creatures and so many woodland races, that there would have to be many fey-blooded offspring out there.

Sooo, why aren't any of these templates? Just about the first hack me and mine did to the system was make aasimar and tyflings a template. For the same reasons, I would expect the feytouched to be template(s.)

Shourly, it's easier to come up with 3 or 4 templates, then to write 30 or 40 monster/ races?

 

[edbonny]

MM2: Templates vs. Fey-Touched

Shourly, it's easier to come up with 3 or 4 templates, then to write 30 or 40 monster/ races?

For me, it's not about being easy. It's about taking the time to do it right by designing really cool things for D&D.

That said, a half-fey template is an excellent idea but given the wide variety of fey and woodland humanoids, a single, generic half-fey template does a disservice to that variety (a variety which I really enjoy). Off the top of my head if I was to create half-fey templates, I would design them much like the half-golems with some half-fey being more fairy-like, some half-fey empowered with the elements, some half-fey as flora-based creatures and others favoring the fauna side of nature.

I am a huge fan of half-breeds and cross-breeds. Things like the tannaruk (demon-orcs), fey'ri (demon-elves), genasi, etc. bring about new possibilities because they combine old favorites. And I wanted to bring combos I enjoyed to the MM2: the durzagon (devil-duergar), chaond and zenythri are my guys. In addition to the one I submitted for the MM2. I have a few cool feytouched ideas in my head (but they need developing).

BTW: One mostly forgotten half-fey/half-fiend already exists from created way back then during the first edition. It is from the original Fiend Folio: the forlarren. I believe it exists online here in one form or another.

- Ed Bonny

 

[edbonny]

Fey-touched vs. Half-fey - part 2

One more important point to make here:

An aasimar is not a half-celestial. A tiefling is not a half-fiend. And so a feytouched creature would not be a half-fey. Feytouched are those in whose blood flows a fey lineage. Mayhaps grandpa was a korred? Great grandma was the daughter of a sylph?

- Ed Bonny