Honestly I prefer the "Klingon" Hobgoblins over the "Labyrinth" Hobgoblins, but I do like the idea of Fey goblinoids overall.
Same.
My fear is that they go the lazy route and scrap the former in favor of the latter. They can't just give us the bombshell that the goblinoids originally came from the Feywild, throw Forgotten Realms in there while they were at it and then not expand on that. What does this means for the lore?
My hope is there is a distinction between the established, spartan Hobgoblin society, and its frequent organization of other goblinoids, _and_ the Fey goblinoids are a different society. It seems though they're rewriting. I mean one person's saving face can be another drawing on community bonds. I could see a riff though. Hobgoblins in FR lore aren't really into the arts and whimsical, you could have Hobgoblins in the Fey who are very much driven by passions. I think you could make a Eladrin/Elf or Vulcan/Romulan distinction here with little difficulty, and the Fey book would just need a paragraph explaining why the riff is. I could actually imagine a lone ago goblinoid military expedition attempting a campaign into the Feywild ... and then become these (with the help of this goblin who looks more like an Elf who happens to be named Jareth). Well, that settles it for my game.
My hopes exactly: A distinction between the Fair Folk society and the spartan one, and a flavor lore as to why the distinction happened.
My take would be to have the spartan Hobgoblins to be descendants of Feygoblins who got manipulated somehow by the war gods they now worship and now they are here. And to not make it yet another Elf/Drow or Dwarf/Duergar situation, I would make it so that, as generations went by, Hobgoblins actually forgot where they came from and so their reaction when meeting their Feywild counterparts would be more one of confusion at best and life-changing revelation at worse, rather than kill-on-sight racism. And being more like the Fey, the feygoblins would be amused by all this.
I also would kill two birds with one stone with such an explanation, making so that the Feygoblins hadn't been mentioned in the 5e canon till now because they were just fine somewhere in the Feywild minding their own business, and that the goblinoids we knew had forgot about them.
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I kinda like the idea of both the Feywild and "regular" goblinoid species having the complete opposite deep not often talked about lore and the ones in the know on both sides spouting "No, you're the lost ones!" at each other, and maybe in some cosmic sense it's a bit of both.
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I kinda like the idea of both the Feywild and "regular" goblinoid species having the complete opposite deep not often talked about lore and the ones in the know on both sides spouting "No, you're the lost ones!" at each other, and maybe in some cosmic sense it's a bit of both.
Now that'd be awesome. I love that.
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Raiketsu's Princes of the Apocalypse (DM: Raiketsu) - Shautha: Half-Orc, Level 3 Druid (Circle of Land: Mountain) ⟆ Monster Misfits Adventures (DM: ShadIn) - Vrakskan Onyxadyn: Dragonborn, Level 3 Barbarian (Path of the Ancestral Guardian) ⟆ Rime of the Frostmaiden (DM: Sarvaeth) - Rildayne Uln'hyrr: Drow Elf, Level 1 Warlock of the Archfey
I love the idea of making it canon that goblinoids are from the Feywild (preferably from the Unseelie Court), but that they ended up becoming servants of Maglubiyet and the other goblinoid deities by being coerced or otherwise persuaded into following them. If they could write up some official/recommended lore for this in a Feywild book, I would love that. They did similar things in Mordenkainen's for the Shadar-Kai, Drow, and Duergar.
The remnants of these ancient goblinoids could be the Hobgoblin of the Feywild seen in this UA, and possibly a Goblin and Bugbear of the Feywild.
Hmm. The more I talk about this, the more it seems like the Dranassar from Exandria. I dig this idea, though.
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I just saw someone on a different site suggest that they call Feywild Goblinoids "Boggarts/Boggartkin".
I dig that. Make "Goblins of the Feywild" be "Boggarts", "Hobgoblins of the Feywild" be "Hobboggarts", and "Bugbears of the Feywild" be "Bugbarts/(Bogbears?)", or something like that, and that would be a nice way of giving these fairy-tale inspired races some more inspiring names than just "Goblinoids of the Feywild".
I mean, who here isn't down for there being Goblinoids and Boggartkin, both rooted in folklore as being related/similar creatures, being in an official 5e Feywild-related book with a cool fey connection (like the one I mentioned in an above post)?
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I just saw someone on a different site suggest that they call Feywild Goblinoids "Boggarts/Boggartkin".
I dig that. Make "Goblins of the Feywild" be "Boggarts", "Hobgoblins of the Feywild" be "Hobboggarts", and "Bugbears of the Feywild" be "Bugbarts/(Bogbears?)", or something like that, and that would be a nice way of giving these fairy-tale inspired races some more inspiring names than just "Goblinoids of the Feywild".
I mean, who here isn't down for there being Goblinoids and Boggartkin, both rooted in folklore as being related/similar creatures, being in an official 5e Feywild-related book with a cool fey connection (like the one I mentioned in an above post)?
Some people are speculating that this UA could be signs of another Magic: the Gathering crossover, this time being the upcoming Strixhaven (think of it as a Fey version of Hogwarts with owl-people and dragon-professors).
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Some people are speculating that this UA could be signs of another Magic: the Gathering crossover, this time being the upcoming Strixhaven (think of it as a Fey version of Hogwarts with owl-people and dragon-professors).
I don't think so, but due to the new Hasbro announcements of an "increasing the cadence of releases," I'm less sure. The last two MTG books were classic, fan-favorite settings, and Strixhaven is new, and receiving a bit of backlash from what I can see. A wizarding school in D&D would be interesting, but a little painful as the entire party would have a d6 hit die (maybe d8 if you convince your DM that you're a warlock posing as a wizard)
Some people are speculating that this UA could be signs of another Magic: the Gathering crossover, this time being the upcoming Strixhaven (think of it as a Fey version of Hogwarts with owl-people and dragon-professors).
I don't think so, but due to the new Hasbro announcements of an "increasing the cadence of releases," I'm less sure. The last two MTG books were classic, fan-favorite settings, and Strixhaven is new, and receiving a bit of backlash from what I can see. A wizarding school in D&D would be interesting, but a little painful as the entire party would have a d6 hit die (maybe d8 if you convince your DM that you're a warlock posing as a wizard)
Not a problem if the setting emphasizes something other than direct combat.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Some people are speculating that this UA could be signs of another Magic: the Gathering crossover, this time being the upcoming Strixhaven (think of it as a Fey version of Hogwarts with owl-people and dragon-professors).
I don't think so, but due to the new Hasbro announcements of an "increasing the cadence of releases," I'm less sure. The last two MTG books were classic, fan-favorite settings, and Strixhaven is new, and receiving a bit of backlash from what I can see. A wizarding school in D&D would be interesting, but a little painful as the entire party would have a d6 hit die (maybe d8 if you convince your DM that you're a warlock posing as a wizard)
Does the MtG world mention the Rabbit/Owlfolk and Hobgoblins and Fairy coming from the Feywild? Is there even a Feywild in MtG? The UA says Feywild, unless there's a Feywild explicitly mentioned in MtG and moreso with ties to species in Strixhaven to the Feywild. I don't believe the word Fey or Feywild shows up in the Strixhaven product description on Third's link. So I think what the majority is thinking is the more plausible book.
Speaking of, where does one find Planeshifts? Are they actual product or some sort of freely distributed goodwill thing? Disregard, that was easy.
Some people are speculating that this UA could be signs of another Magic: the Gathering crossover, this time being the upcoming Strixhaven (think of it as a Fey version of Hogwarts with owl-people and dragon-professors).
I don't think so, but due to the new Hasbro announcements of an "increasing the cadence of releases," I'm less sure. The last two MTG books were classic, fan-favorite settings, and Strixhaven is new, and receiving a bit of backlash from what I can see. A wizarding school in D&D would be interesting, but a little painful as the entire party would have a d6 hit die (maybe d8 if you convince your DM that you're a warlock posing as a wizard)
Not a problem if the setting emphasizes something other than direct combat.
And, in D&D terms, Strixhaven's 5 "houses" include a Wizard/Warlock house (Lorehold), Bard/Sorcerer house (Prismari), Wizard/Artificer house (Quandrix), Bard/Rogue house (Silverquill), and a Druid house (Witherbloom). If they were to do a Strixhaven 5e book, most of these classes have a d8 hit dice, and spellcasters do have ways to avoid attacks other than high hit points.
I'm not saying it is going to happen, and the bit about Ravnica and Theros being well known and popular settings is a valid point (but WotC has been known to change their minds a lot, so the point is a bit weaker), but Strixhaven seems like a very promising candidate for if WotC were to a) make another Magic: the Gathering setting book this year and b) have this UA's content be for the book mentioned in point a.
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Some people are speculating that this UA could be signs of another Magic: the Gathering crossover, this time being the upcoming Strixhaven (think of it as a Fey version of Hogwarts with owl-people and dragon-professors).
I don't think so, but due to the new Hasbro announcements of an "increasing the cadence of releases," I'm less sure. The last two MTG books were classic, fan-favorite settings, and Strixhaven is new, and receiving a bit of backlash from what I can see. A wizarding school in D&D would be interesting, but a little painful as the entire party would have a d6 hit die (maybe d8 if you convince your DM that you're a warlock posing as a wizard)
Does the MtG world mention the Rabbit/Owlfolk and Hobgoblins and Fairy coming from the Feywild? Is there even a Feywild in MtG? The UA says Feywild, unless there's a Feywild explicitly mentioned in MtG and moreso with ties to species in Strixhaven to the Feywild. I don't believe the word Fey or Feywild shows up in the Strixhaven product description on Third's link. So I think what the majority is thinking is the more plausible book.
When the Centaur and Minotaur UA came out a few years back, a lot of people on online forums speculated that they were for a Hellenistic Greek Setting, but it turned out that they were actually intended for Ravnica. Wizards of the Coast often tries to hide their intentions for upcoming books from the community, even when Unearthed Arcana is released. Just because this UA says "Feywild" doesn't mean that they won't use it for a setting that does not have a Feywild.
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Some people are speculating that this UA could be signs of another Magic: the Gathering crossover, this time being the upcoming Strixhaven (think of it as a Fey version of Hogwarts with owl-people and dragon-professors).
I don't think so, but due to the new Hasbro announcements of an "increasing the cadence of releases," I'm less sure. The last two MTG books were classic, fan-favorite settings, and Strixhaven is new, and receiving a bit of backlash from what I can see. A wizarding school in D&D would be interesting, but a little painful as the entire party would have a d6 hit die (maybe d8 if you convince your DM that you're a warlock posing as a wizard)
Does the MtG world mention the Rabbit/Owlfolk and Hobgoblins and Fairy coming from the Feywild? Is there even a Feywild in MtG? The UA says Feywild, unless there's a Feywild explicitly mentioned in MtG and moreso with ties to species in Strixhaven to the Feywild. I don't believe the word Fey or Feywild shows up in the Strixhaven product description on Third's link. So I think what the majority is thinking is the more plausible book.
Speaking of, where does one find Planeshifts? Are they actual product or some sort of freely distributed goodwill thing? Disregard, that was easy.
Lorwyn is basically the Feywild, but it becomes the Shadowfell every several hundred years.
Some people are speculating that this UA could be signs of another Magic: the Gathering crossover, this time being the upcoming Strixhaven (think of it as a Fey version of Hogwarts with owl-people and dragon-professors).
I don't think so, but due to the new Hasbro announcements of an "increasing the cadence of releases," I'm less sure. The last two MTG books were classic, fan-favorite settings, and Strixhaven is new, and receiving a bit of backlash from what I can see. A wizarding school in D&D would be interesting, but a little painful as the entire party would have a d6 hit die (maybe d8 if you convince your DM that you're a warlock posing as a wizard)
Does the MtG world mention the Rabbit/Owlfolk and Hobgoblins and Fairy coming from the Feywild? Is there even a Feywild in MtG? The UA says Feywild, unless there's a Feywild explicitly mentioned in MtG and moreso with ties to species in Strixhaven to the Feywild. I don't believe the word Fey or Feywild shows up in the Strixhaven product description on Third's link. So I think what the majority is thinking is the more plausible book.
When the Centaur and Minotaur UA came out a few years back, a lot of people on online forums speculated that they were for a Hellenistic Greek Setting, but it turned out that they were actually intended for Ravnica. Wizards of the Coast often tries to hide their intentions for upcoming books from the community, even when Unearthed Arcana is released. Just because this UA says "Feywild" doesn't mean that they won't use it for a setting that does not have a Feywild.
The UA you cited was precisely my point. The Centaur and Minotaur therein are written _setting agnostic_. Feywild is setting specific, and at least the goblinoids has setting info on "why" the goblinoids are in a place a lot of 5e don't associate with them. So for example I wouldn't be surprised the draconic subclasses didn't wind up in a Dragonlance book, because frankly they sound a bit weird for Dragonlance and are written setting agnostic. The Gothlines were more ambiguous but we all knew something Gothic was coming. Strixhaven just isn't as hard or solidly fey as fey wild, and a lot of false anticipation and assertions I feel come from failure to read where possibility is and where commitment is. But there will supposedly be Magic word in the works so who knows?
The next four Magic:The Gathering big set releases are Strixhaven (new setting; magical school/academy based; 5 different houses), Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (D&D setting; most likely based around the Party mechanic from the newest Zendikar set), and the two Innistrad sets based around Werewolves and Vampires (3rd time visiting this setting; a fan favorite; gothic/eldritch horror tropes). Out of all of those, the only ones I could see being made into a full D&D 5E product are the Innistrad settings, and only because after the last kerfluffle there the place is ripe for adventuring parties going out and exploring/rediscovering stuff. Then again, Innistrad is pretty much a 100% Humans VS Everything-else-thats-trying-to-eat-us Setting ......
I'm not opposed to Fey Passage. it just feels a little abrupt, especially with no explanation as to how. Is the critter temporarily turning gaseous, or transforming into sentient fairy glitter? Is it just super squishy? Is it using Minimize (to be super effective)? How's it work? I can explain it for my own personal critters, a'course, but it's a bit jarring to see. May be one of those things that grows on a gal over time, though, the way the original Psi Die did.
I think it's one of those things you can flavor however you want, and I'm kinda glad of that. There's enough ways to no-prize it that it's easy to make your own.
Personally, my head canon for faeries will be 'they are actually tiny size, but they have slightly erratic flight and *do* take up their space, and zipping through spaces is just what they do :D Incoming attacks and HP vagueness don't really hit them but can wear them down a bit as they avoid blows, 'till they actually take bigger hits.
Fey in contemporary iconography and fandoms seem to be popular because of association with fluidity and uncanny, and this fairy ability has the potential to really embrace that. As a result, I actually like the idea of fairy being given powers that have a mechanical effect (basically the swarm and some tiny ability to make passage through the proverbial mouse hole) and not have it be explicit, I guess I'd prefer a table to inspire as they do with the fairy descriptive traits. But ultimately I like the idea of fairy having powers that actually defy sense and logic to the mortal observer. Maybe your mind pieces together "sparkle motion" or constituting into a mini swarm between point a and b, or some really elastic transfiguration to make their way across, and maybe it's the sort of thing that's dependent on the observer, and different observers could witness different things in the same moment. Feywild seems to be often evocative of the hyper real and surreal, and its dynamic environment where a lot of things can happen and a lot of things do happen, and a prime material humanoid's ability to literally make sense of it is often at a loss so there's a perpetual hallucinatory or dream like quality to things.
I just hope that the flavor/lore texts of whatever work this appears in, assuming it survives, push players imagination that way as it seems necessary for players to embrace it.
My hopes exactly: A distinction between the Fair Folk society and the spartan one, and a flavor lore as to why the distinction happened.
My take would be to have the spartan Hobgoblins to be descendants of Feygoblins who got manipulated somehow by the war gods they now worship and now they are here. And to not make it yet another Elf/Drow or Dwarf/Duergar situation, I would make it so that, as generations went by, Hobgoblins actually forgot where they came from and so their reaction when meeting their Feywild counterparts would be more one of confusion at best and life-changing revelation at worse, rather than kill-on-sight racism. And being more like the Fey, the feygoblins would be amused by all this.
I also would kill two birds with one stone with such an explanation, making so that the Feygoblins hadn't been mentioned in the 5e canon till now because they were just fine somewhere in the Feywild minding their own business, and that the goblinoids we knew had forgot about them.
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I kinda like the idea of both the Feywild and "regular" goblinoid species having the complete opposite deep not often talked about lore and the ones in the know on both sides spouting "No, you're the lost ones!" at each other, and maybe in some cosmic sense it's a bit of both.
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Now that'd be awesome. I love that.
Active Campaigns:
Raiketsu's Princes of the Apocalypse (DM: Raiketsu) - Shautha: Half-Orc, Level 3 Druid (Circle of Land: Mountain) ⟆ Monster Misfits Adventures (DM: ShadIn) - Vrakskan Onyxadyn: Dragonborn, Level 3 Barbarian (Path of the Ancestral Guardian) ⟆ Rime of the Frostmaiden (DM: Sarvaeth) - Rildayne Uln'hyrr: Drow Elf, Level 1 Warlock of the Archfey
RachelEvening's Tyranny of the Dragon Queen - DM
RachelEvening's Tomb of Annihilation - DM
I love the idea of making it canon that goblinoids are from the Feywild (preferably from the Unseelie Court), but that they ended up becoming servants of Maglubiyet and the other goblinoid deities by being coerced or otherwise persuaded into following them. If they could write up some official/recommended lore for this in a Feywild book, I would love that. They did similar things in Mordenkainen's for the Shadar-Kai, Drow, and Duergar.
The remnants of these ancient goblinoids could be the Hobgoblin of the Feywild seen in this UA, and possibly a Goblin and Bugbear of the Feywild.
Hmm. The more I talk about this, the more it seems like the Dranassar from Exandria. I dig this idea, though.
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I hope they get the new races plugged into the character maker soon, I have an idea for a Fairy character I would love to make.
I just saw someone on a different site suggest that they call Feywild Goblinoids "Boggarts/Boggartkin".
I dig that. Make "Goblins of the Feywild" be "Boggarts", "Hobgoblins of the Feywild" be "Hobboggarts", and "Bugbears of the Feywild" be "Bugbarts/(Bogbears?)", or something like that, and that would be a nice way of giving these fairy-tale inspired races some more inspiring names than just "Goblinoids of the Feywild".
I mean, who here isn't down for there being Goblinoids and Boggartkin, both rooted in folklore as being related/similar creatures, being in an official 5e Feywild-related book with a cool fey connection (like the one I mentioned in an above post)?
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Until then, I'm just going to call them Hobfey.
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Some people are speculating that this UA could be signs of another Magic: the Gathering crossover, this time being the upcoming Strixhaven (think of it as a Fey version of Hogwarts with owl-people and dragon-professors).
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I don't think so, but due to the new Hasbro announcements of an "increasing the cadence of releases," I'm less sure. The last two MTG books were classic, fan-favorite settings, and Strixhaven is new, and receiving a bit of backlash from what I can see. A wizarding school in D&D would be interesting, but a little painful as the entire party would have a d6 hit die (maybe d8 if you convince your DM that you're a warlock posing as a wizard)
Probably day after tomorrow (so Monday) sometime. UAs almost always go live on DDB at some time on the Monday after they have been released.
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Not a problem if the setting emphasizes something other than direct combat.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Does the MtG world mention the Rabbit/Owlfolk and Hobgoblins and Fairy coming from the Feywild? Is there even a Feywild in MtG? The UA says Feywild, unless there's a Feywild explicitly mentioned in MtG and moreso with ties to species in Strixhaven to the Feywild. I don't believe the word Fey or Feywild shows up in the Strixhaven product description on Third's link. So I think what the majority is thinking is the more plausible book.
Speaking of, where does one find Planeshifts? Are they actual product or some sort of freely distributed goodwill thing?Disregard, that was easy.Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
And, in D&D terms, Strixhaven's 5 "houses" include a Wizard/Warlock house (Lorehold), Bard/Sorcerer house (Prismari), Wizard/Artificer house (Quandrix), Bard/Rogue house (Silverquill), and a Druid house (Witherbloom). If they were to do a Strixhaven 5e book, most of these classes have a d8 hit dice, and spellcasters do have ways to avoid attacks other than high hit points.
I'm not saying it is going to happen, and the bit about Ravnica and Theros being well known and popular settings is a valid point (but WotC has been known to change their minds a lot, so the point is a bit weaker), but Strixhaven seems like a very promising candidate for if WotC were to a) make another Magic: the Gathering setting book this year and b) have this UA's content be for the book mentioned in point a.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
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When the Centaur and Minotaur UA came out a few years back, a lot of people on online forums speculated that they were for a Hellenistic Greek Setting, but it turned out that they were actually intended for Ravnica. Wizards of the Coast often tries to hide their intentions for upcoming books from the community, even when Unearthed Arcana is released. Just because this UA says "Feywild" doesn't mean that they won't use it for a setting that does not have a Feywild.
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Lorwyn is basically the Feywild, but it becomes the Shadowfell every several hundred years.
I have a weird sense of humor.
I also make maps.(That's a link)
Hopefully the eldarin lore will get adjusted somewhat to be understood
The UA you cited was precisely my point. The Centaur and Minotaur therein are written _setting agnostic_. Feywild is setting specific, and at least the goblinoids has setting info on "why" the goblinoids are in a place a lot of 5e don't associate with them. So for example I wouldn't be surprised the draconic subclasses didn't wind up in a Dragonlance book, because frankly they sound a bit weird for Dragonlance and are written setting agnostic. The Gothlines were more ambiguous but we all knew something Gothic was coming. Strixhaven just isn't as hard or solidly fey as fey wild, and a lot of false anticipation and assertions I feel come from failure to read where possibility is and where commitment is. But there will supposedly be Magic word in the works so who knows?
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
The next four Magic:The Gathering big set releases are Strixhaven (new setting; magical school/academy based; 5 different houses), Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (D&D setting; most likely based around the Party mechanic from the newest Zendikar set), and the two Innistrad sets based around Werewolves and Vampires (3rd time visiting this setting; a fan favorite; gothic/eldritch horror tropes). Out of all of those, the only ones I could see being made into a full D&D 5E product are the Innistrad settings, and only because after the last kerfluffle there the place is ripe for adventuring parties going out and exploring/rediscovering stuff. Then again, Innistrad is pretty much a 100% Humans VS Everything-else-thats-trying-to-eat-us Setting ......
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Personally, my head canon for faeries will be 'they are actually tiny size, but they have slightly erratic flight and *do* take up their space, and zipping through spaces is just what they do :D Incoming attacks and HP vagueness don't really hit them but can wear them down a bit as they avoid blows, 'till they actually take bigger hits.
Fey in contemporary iconography and fandoms seem to be popular because of association with fluidity and uncanny, and this fairy ability has the potential to really embrace that. As a result, I actually like the idea of fairy being given powers that have a mechanical effect (basically the swarm and some tiny ability to make passage through the proverbial mouse hole) and not have it be explicit, I guess I'd prefer a table to inspire as they do with the fairy descriptive traits. But ultimately I like the idea of fairy having powers that actually defy sense and logic to the mortal observer. Maybe your mind pieces together "sparkle motion" or constituting into a mini swarm between point a and b, or some really elastic transfiguration to make their way across, and maybe it's the sort of thing that's dependent on the observer, and different observers could witness different things in the same moment. Feywild seems to be often evocative of the hyper real and surreal, and its dynamic environment where a lot of things can happen and a lot of things do happen, and a prime material humanoid's ability to literally make sense of it is often at a loss so there's a perpetual hallucinatory or dream like quality to things.
I just hope that the flavor/lore texts of whatever work this appears in, assuming it survives, push players imagination that way as it seems necessary for players to embrace it.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.