RAW your right of course it just doesn't make sense to me. That if fey ancestry gives you charm resistance being fey doesn't? It's just a weird ruling. Probably because elves in 5e where written before the centaur where and they might have fergotten? Or there is a mechanic balance thing going on.
I feel like this might have been addressed at some point a year ago when this thread was still being discussed. Ah here it is:
These are ravnica centaurs. Ravnica does not have a feywild and the fey there behave very differently (mostly they are just very in tune with nature). Centaurs are mostly selesnia or gruul (conservationists and anarchists respectively) and live in the greenbelts and rubblebelts of ravnica (areas where there are less standing buildings).
Using centaurs in a non-ravnica game will require a conversation about how they are different in that setting.
RAW your right of course it just doesn't make sense to me. That if fey ancestry gives you charm resistance being fey doesn't? It's just a weird ruling. Probably because elves in 5e where written before the centaur where and they might have fergotten? Or there is a mechanic balance thing going on.
Actually, it does. If you look up Fey monsters, some as the Dryad and Pixies have magic resistance (which means advantage against charms), while others as the Redcap or Darkling don't. You have to remember that Fey is a type and not a single race and elves having Fey ancestry means that one of their ancestor was a Fey and that this ancestor had resistance against charms. Dryad and Pixie may share that ancestor with elves, while Centaur may not. In the same way that, in a thousand years from now, some race could have "Humanoid Ancestry" and be given Gnome, Halfling or Dwarf traits, while those traits are not shared by all Humanoid races.
I came across this thread while working with someone playing a Satyr in my game. In my version of the Forgotten Realms, the fey are composed of living emotions (much like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan) to explain why they don't have souls. As such, they don't have a connection to the more "mental" aspects of the multiverse, like psionics or the Dreamscape, and as such don't dream. (In fact, getting a fey to dream is one way of creating a soul in my campaign.)
That does suggest that none of the fey in my games can sleep (or, at least, can dream).
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I feel like this might have been addressed at some point a year ago when this thread was still being discussed. Ah here it is:
As of June 2020, this is no longer true. Satyrs are now an official playable race.
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Funny how that will happen after a year or two. And even more are on the way if UA is any indication.
I am not even going to start whit UA
Actually, it does. If you look up Fey monsters, some as the Dryad and Pixies have magic resistance (which means advantage against charms), while others as the Redcap or Darkling don't. You have to remember that Fey is a type and not a single race and elves having Fey ancestry means that one of their ancestor was a Fey and that this ancestor had resistance against charms. Dryad and Pixie may share that ancestor with elves, while Centaur may not. In the same way that, in a thousand years from now, some race could have "Humanoid Ancestry" and be given Gnome, Halfling or Dwarf traits, while those traits are not shared by all Humanoid races.
I came across this thread while working with someone playing a Satyr in my game. In my version of the Forgotten Realms, the fey are composed of living emotions (much like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan) to explain why they don't have souls. As such, they don't have a connection to the more "mental" aspects of the multiverse, like psionics or the Dreamscape, and as such don't dream. (In fact, getting a fey to dream is one way of creating a soul in my campaign.)
That does suggest that none of the fey in my games can sleep (or, at least, can dream).