Let’s build a D&D campaign with ~dark fey vibes~

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As a young girl who loved to read grimm fairytales as a kid I also have not grown out of the dark fey vibes. Probably why I love dnd and specifically anything fey so much.

"It's very fucked up I love it!" is always a sign of great content.

The Feywild is such an interesting and surprisingly dynamic location for games! Folk horror, whimsical fairy tale, dark political intrigue, all of them and more fit perfectly with the Fey. I’m building a political game in a home brew take on the Feywild and it’s been a great time! Looking forward to some inspiration from this video.

"Life is short and D&D is long" is iconic and I'm gonna go put this on a shirt now.

for anyone curious, there is a domain of dread in Ravenloft called "The Shadow Rift" that had dark fae with it's own seelie and unseelie court. It is accessed by the neighboring realm of Tepest that has to deal with fae all the time. There were even 2 modules in an old edition. I am currently running a campaign in Tepest and using those dark fae and it's incredible, my party is terrified. One of the characters even got their shadow stolen.

In my setting, there’s an Elven nation called Davael. Davael is a theocracy dedicated to beings they call the ‘Bright Creators’, whom they believe originally made the world but whose glory was usurped by the other Gods. The Davaeli are fiercely devoted to the Bright Creators, and the most loyal are allowed to drink from the Bright Font, becoming Eladrin — the chosen children of the Creators. The problem is the story is not true and the Bright Creators are just a bunch of capricious, dangerous and bored Fey who basically pranked a nation of several million elves into religious extremism for kicks and profit.

Kenna's backstory got my brain spinning the most. Just thinking about if Kenna hired the mage to take her and her child somewhere (like they were on the run from something or moving or whatever) and the Kenna's child wonders off or is lured off the shadow roads. So Kenna ran off after her child to protect them. But she is abused by the memory thief and loses her memory of her child. So her child is now lost plane of shadows. Maybe they gang comes across her child during their adventure. Maybe this is before Kenna regains her memories so she doesn't know its her child yet. Maybe child got corrupted by the shadows. Maybe the child gets entangle in a rival fairy court of Aravni's, or even one of those lost courts you mentioned. Idk, so many possibilities.

The fact that you uploaded this the DAY I finalized my changeling's backstory. They're one of the "switched with a human baby" ones, and was found out when they went to help the local blacksmith and touched pure iron for the first time. They were then banished in a very traumatic incident given that they didn't even know that they were one. There's a whole lot more details, but that's the basics of it. I'm also going with classic fae rules so this changeling can't lie. They don't have the whole gift stuff though because I imagine that's a societal thing, not instinctual. I'm so excited for session one next week

Me: Gotta prep D&D! No time to lose Ginny: New video 😇 Me: Yeah, okay, I'll watch it later, really gotta prep Ginny: It's about Fey... Dark Fey Me: ... Well, I can just improvise the next session I guess

I played a Satyr Hexblade Warlock named Sweetpea who's backstory was that she was a regular goat that got was kept in the feast hall of the Countess of County Faire (A feywild infused district in the city setting my group homebrewed) and when the Countess needed some champions to do stuff for her she turned her into a sentient Satyr Hexblade Warlock, she only wishes to return to the peaceful life of just being a goat.

“For as long as the players can keep their Saturday mornings open—“ I’m dying, too real😂

Omg please do more videos in this format! Campaign setting prep is SO INTERESTING I am all about this. Production quality is top notch too, I love it. Thank you so much for taking risks on niche content like this!!! Very cool

This seems perfect book to have a Jim Henson Labyrinth style campaign

This is a world-building element I need. A previous campaign that went epic-level saved an entire world from sliding into the Abyss after it was pretty far gone. Then they left. So with nations gone and populations decimated... now what? A world ripe for the feywild, with leftover lurking terrors and civilizations few and far between.

Considering how early I see Christmas crap, you are perfectly okay delving into Halloween late August.

Making a pact with a dark Fey where all I get in return is a full campaign DM’d by Ginny.

My daughter was watching this in the living room , too hot to go outside , as soon as she saw your shirt. She yelled. " it's officially Halloween Season." Another great post , thank you. End of Summer mermaid lament ? Please ?

"... it's always October in my heart!" That made me smile so much! I worked at the local Renaissance Faire for the first time on the weekends last July, and found out that the same place also does Halloween stuff in October. I've been eagerly awaiting the chance to go back and dress up again for another month!