D&D 5E So Much Witchlight Art!

During a video this weekend, WotC's Chris Perkins, Ari Levitch and Kate Irwin took a look a The Wild Beyond the Witchlight. You can watch the video below, but if you can't, EN World member @darjr has kindly collated a bunch of screenshots of the incredible variety of art within, along with some notes.

• The Feywild is a brighter reflection of the world like the Shadowfell is dark one. Prismeer is an archetypal domain.
• It's very easy to get lost. Time and space can bend or twist.
• No combat is required.
• Rules of the feywild include rules of reciprocity and ownership.
• Archfey Zybilna (sp?) is missing, so this domain of delight has splintered into Hither, Thither, and Yon.
• The carnival is a gateway to a plan of emotion, the feywild.
• More whimsical nature with a twist of wikedness. Inspiration, Willy Wonka, James and the Giant Peach.
• All the maps are by Will Doyle and Stacey Allan who worked closely early on with Chris Perkins.

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[Demetrios1453]

Love to see the Jabberwock!
The Campestris look suitably cute and annoying. Exactly what you want to spring on players from time to time to mildly annoy them ("So, apparently this batch of Campestris you've camped next to have learned how to sing 'Baby Shark'.")
I note with interest that the Glasswork Golem has an alignment listed, which was not the case for creatures in Candlekeep and Ravenloft.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Chonky fairies and sassy rabbitfolk are coming to Dungeons & Dragons

Wizards’ Chris Perkins on the new fey races, including his team’s latest ‘happy accident’

www.polygon.com

 

[darjr]

I’m a buff bunny

 

[Scribe]

The Fairies are Gnome sized?! Ugh.

 

[Quickleaf]

A Glimpse Behind The Curtains Of The Wild Beyond The Witchlight

We talked with Chris Perkins about the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons storyline and show off previews of the new backgrounds available in the book.

www.forbes.com

“If a group wants to hack-and-slash its way through the adventure," said Perkins, "they can—there are plenty of tough challenges awaiting them. What we tried to do in the adventure is present non-violent ways to resolve encounters, enabling clever characters who heed the rules of the Feywild to accomplish their goals without having to resort to violence. For example, you can fight Warduke, or you can convince him to join your team; the adventure presents both options.”

Scene from the carnival (those are mephits!), by Clint Clearly

Flying carriages, by Katerina Ladon

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

A Glimpse Behind The Curtains Of The Wild Beyond The Witchlight

We talked with Chris Perkins about the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons storyline and show off previews of the new backgrounds available in the book.

www.forbes.com

“If a group wants to hack-and-slash its way through the adventure," said Perkins, "they can—there are plenty of tough challenges awaiting them. What we tried to do in the adventure is present non-violent ways to resolve encounters, enabling clever characters who heed the rules of the Feywild to accomplish their goals without having to resort to violence. For example, you can fight Warduke, or you can convince him to join your team; the adventure presents both options.”

Scene from the carnival (those are mephits!), by Clint Clearly

Flying carriages, by Katerina Ladon

I wonder if they have real vehicle stats for those flying carriages. That could be quite useful for my world if they did (where there's an empire of celestials and Aasimar in the Elemental Plane of Air that use flying vehicles like those to transport non-flyers and supplies across the flying islands).

 

[Faolyn]

The Fairies are Gnome sized?! Ugh.

D&D "little" faerie have always been pretty big, often on the order of 2 feet tall or so. Smaller than a gnome, but a lot bigger than what I think most of us imagine as being faerie-sized.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

D&D "little" faerie have always been pretty big, often on the order of 2 feet tall or so. Smaller than a gnome, but a lot bigger than what I think most of us imagine as being faerie-sized.

I wish that the preview had shown us their revised racial stats, but I guess that's too much to ask to get for free. In the feedback survey for the Fey Folk UA, I told them to just replace the "you can fit through tiny spaces" with natural Enlarge/Reduce a specific amount of times each day (limited to Reduce, only capable of being cast on themselves). I wonder if they're going to keep it as it was in the UA, or do something like what I recommended.

 

[Faolyn]

I wish that the preview had shown us their revised racial stats, but I guess that's too much to ask to get for free. In the feedback survey for the Fey Folk UA, I told them to just replace the "you can fit through tiny spaces" with natural Enlarge/Reduce a specific amount of times each day (limited to Reduce, only capable of being cast on themselves). I wonder if they're going to keep it as it was in the UA, or do something like what I recommended.

Not bad. I could easily see it either way and say faeries are good at folding themselves into tiny spaces, but actually reducing their size is quite fey-like in general.

 

[Scribe]

D&D "little" faerie have always been pretty big, often on the order of 2 feet tall or so. Smaller than a gnome, but a lot bigger than what I think most of us imagine as being faerie-sized.

Yeah, I was hoping for a departure, something really different from the current options for PCs.

Oh well.