While they are nice (The feyfolk) we should totally give the eldarin a feat that allows them to be FEY like in the lore...
Something like feytouched and feystep feat that just changes their subtype to be fey... seriously. Why is it that most of the eldarin are FEY subtype and the players eldarine are not??? We should fix that!,even in lore as written most eldarin are fey creatures and not humanoids...
I'd say patience, and maybe we'll see? I mean the Eldarin are a pretty established race in game, and could see them reworked as "humanoid/fey" a la the two type system presented in the Ravensloft Gothlines (tm, Midnightplat 2021). I'd be very surprised if the four races presented were "it" as far a playable races/lineages for a Feywild book.
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I'm not really sure what the problem is? Just ask your DM to either swap or add Fey type to the current Eladrin stat block. I mean, its overwhelmingly a disadvantage for the most part if you dual-type, so most DMs won't bat an eye at it.
Meanwhile, swapping types is... kind of a trade off? You mostly get immunity to charm stuff that you'd be getting advantage on anyways, and can't be turned into an undead. On the flip side, you're detected and warded against far more easily, and you can be banished (which is worse than dying, imho). Uncleavertitle gave me some links that I find helpful.
Anyways. Given everything, I don't see the need for a feat when you could just ask the DM, and the swap is generally going to be screwing you over in the first place. Feats aren't a good place for flaws and drawbacks, imho.
"Why cant i decide that mine is fey? Or change him to be fey without annoying my DM over minor things."
Short answer - because it was written that way. Eladrin PCs are humanoids while Eladrin NPCs are Fey.
The D&D team isn't going to errata something that's fundamentally not broken. They're also very likely not going to make a feat for a non-core race that involves a negative trait, plus even if they did you'd have to be non-fae for a good chunk of play when you don't have said feat. "Annoying" your DM is the simplest way.
I suppose they might remake / reprint the eladrin elf-subrace with that difference in the upcoming Feywild book. But this is the wrong venue for asking for that; D&D team isn't watching forums. What you can do that might have an official impact is to go out on other forums, reddit, social media, etc and encourage people that, when they give feedback on the Feywild races, to include a note about reprinting Eladrin with the type change.
I get what you guys mean, and i suppose my gripe with the eladrine is a lore thing rather than a mechanical thing... my english is perfect either,mechanically they are fine..
While they are nice (The feyfolk) we should totally give the eldarin a feat that allows them to be FEY like in the lore...
Something like feytouched and feystep feat that just changes their subtype to be fey... seriously. Why is it that most of the eldarin are FEY subtype and the players eldarine are not??? We should fix that!,even in lore as written most eldarin are fey creatures and not humanoids...
I'd say patience, and maybe we'll see? I mean the Eldarin are a pretty established race in game, and could see them reworked as "humanoid/fey" a la the two type system presented in the Ravensloft Gothlines (tm, Midnightplat 2021). I'd be very surprised if the four races presented were "it" as far a playable races/lineages for a Feywild book.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I'm not really sure what the problem is? Just ask your DM to either swap or add Fey type to the current Eladrin stat block. I mean, its overwhelmingly a disadvantage for the most part if you dual-type, so most DMs won't bat an eye at it.
Meanwhile, swapping types is... kind of a trade off? You mostly get immunity to charm stuff that you'd be getting advantage on anyways, and can't be turned into an undead. On the flip side, you're detected and warded against far more easily, and you can be banished (which is worse than dying, imho). Uncleavertitle gave me some links that I find helpful.
Here's a list of stuff that won't affect non-Humanoid Fae types.
Here's a list of stuff that affects Fae types.
Anyways. Given everything, I don't see the need for a feat when you could just ask the DM, and the swap is generally going to be screwing you over in the first place. Feats aren't a good place for flaws and drawbacks, imho.
I know i can ask my DM,but it bothers me in the way canon lore and gameplay clash.
So,most eladrin by lore are fey. And minority of them are still humanoid.
Why cant i decide that mine is fey? Or change him to be fey without annoying my DM over minor things.
There are more things like that in the elven lore but i try to be hopeful something will be more coherent with whats written.
"Why cant i decide that mine is fey? Or change him to be fey without annoying my DM over minor things."
Short answer - because it was written that way. Eladrin PCs are humanoids while Eladrin NPCs are Fey.
The D&D team isn't going to errata something that's fundamentally not broken. They're also very likely not going to make a feat for a non-core race that involves a negative trait, plus even if they did you'd have to be non-fae for a good chunk of play when you don't have said feat. "Annoying" your DM is the simplest way.
I suppose they might remake / reprint the eladrin elf-subrace with that difference in the upcoming Feywild book. But this is the wrong venue for asking for that; D&D team isn't watching forums. What you can do that might have an official impact is to go out on other forums, reddit, social media, etc and encourage people that, when they give feedback on the Feywild races, to include a note about reprinting Eladrin with the type change.
I get what you guys mean, and i suppose my gripe with the eladrine is a lore thing rather than a mechanical thing... my english is perfect either,mechanically they are fine..
Whats been written about the humanoid eladrin in short is that they are the minority,while most are fey.
Some of the fey eladrin get back to arvandor by the will of their gods.
While some humanoid eladrin look like high elves others can change their looks by the seasons. With little explenation as to why its like that?
As from whats written ALL eladrin were in the feywild than most other elves.
Are they not exposed enough? Something is missing and confusing for me there.
Why is that? From a lore standpoint... is it for us to fill out?