Creating a Fey Character

One of the things I am most dissatisfied with in Pathfinder is the treatment of fey. Everything else about the game is great, but I do not like the constantly mischevious tricksters all fey are shown as.

I would really appreciate advice on how to make fey characters that reflect the dresden files/old school view of the fey where they are forces of nature. There is nothing wrong with some tricksters as long as that is just one aspect. I think 4e did a great job with eladrin and the various options to make your character more in tune with the feywild, but I don't care for the game system and want to create a dangerous fey using pathfinder rules. Thanks!

Have you looked at Bestiary 2? Because Kelpies, Redcaps, Nereids, and Pech aren't either pleasant or tricksters.

Or to put it another way: The common, low-level Fae are often tricksters, rarer or more powerful ones might be almost anything. And elemental associations are definitely there.

One of the things I am most dissatisfied with in Pathfinder is the treatment of fey. Everything else about the game is great, but I do not like the constantly mischevious tricksters all fey are shown as.

I would really appreciate advice on how to make fey characters that reflect the dresden files/old school view of the fey where they are forces of nature. There is nothing wrong with some tricksters as long as that is just one aspect. I think 4e did a great job with eladrin and the various options to make your character more in tune with the feywild, but I don't care for the game system and want to create a dangerous fey using pathfinder rules. Thanks!

I don't quite get where you get that Fey vibe from. Pathfinder has some fey heavy Adventures, that show fey as quite powerful and often quite dangerous forces of first world nature. I'd recommend you t read

The fey bloodline for sorceror and lack of other character creation feats/options is what I am talking about. Maybe high level monsters demonstrate some of the more serious aspects, but I want to be able to show that in a character.

I will look up those adventures you listed. Right now my group is playing kingmaker and so far the fey are mainly pranksters.

Edit-- Just to make this clear, I'm not looking to bash pathfinder here, I would like advice on how to make this work using pathfinder to create the option I've talked about. Monsters are great to show flavor but I'm not seeing the usefulness for a pc.

The fey bloodline for sorceror and lack of other character creation feats/options is what I am talking about. Maybe high level monsters demonstrate some of the more serious aspects, but I want to be able to show that in a character.

Well, mind-control magic (the focus of the bloodline) IS very Fey...

All Gnomes are a Fey-associated chargen option, and need not be particularly trickster-oriented if you don't wish them to be.

Aside from that...uh, what Fey-related chargen options would there be? Dragons, Monstrous Humanoids, Elementals, etc. all have only one or two, why should the Fey get more?

I don't know what other options there are. Ideally I would love a prestige class that anyone could take, but I'm pretty sure there isn't one. I am not saying there aren't some options, I am saying that I don't particularly like them and want to know if there are other ideas. If I want to play a human rogue with fey history, I can roleplay that all day but there are no feats or traits or prestige classes I can take to have an in-game effect.