Hello,
I'm not sure which forum to post this question.
Are there any fey races appropriate to build a PC character on? That's to say, fairly human or elf life, and wouldn't be outrageously powerful? I just like the flavor of playing a fey creature, but I still want to play a normal class.
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Gnomes.
Pretty much this
As quoted from the Pathfinder Campaign setting book"Once an ancient and immortal race of fey, the wily gnomes of present Golarion a re-transmuted and displaced . They still cling to the era of agelessness they left behind as they emerged from Golarion’s progenitor, the First World, and stepped into the alien and hostile reality of the Material Plane"
Hello,
I'm not sure which forum to post this question.
Are there any fey races appropriate to build a PC character on? That's to say, fairly human or elf life, and wouldn't be outrageously powerful? I just like the flavor of playing a fey creature, but I still want to play a normal class.
For that matter, there are always human or elf sorcerers with the Fey bloodline. Or you could reskin a half-elf and simply call it feytouched.
The mite is the only fey race that's listed as a possible monster race that might be easily incorporate into the game in the Pathfinder core rulebook. Their association with vermin has made me want to play a mite druid who somehow got a vermin companion.
If you're going for third party material, there was kind of a drunken pixie type monster class (5 levels) in an early kobold quarterly that was also kind of interesting (it was for 3.5 though).
I have taken to feats as a backdoor route for 'specializing' characters. Both Elves and Gnomes have 'character creation' feats that allow them to start with strong 'Fey' elements. E.G.: an Elf Sorcerer with the Fey Bloodline would not gain a thing, in effect making her Fey already.
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feytouched / wyldling
+2 dex, -2 con, +2 cha
lowlight vision
+2 on stealth and perception
spell-like ability Charm Person 1/day as caster of your level, at 8th level this becomes charm monster, at 16th you can choose to cast mass, charm monster instead.
fey immunities : immunity to sleep effects, +2 saves vs mind-affecting effects
wild empathy : like a druid half your level, druids get a +4 bonus instead.
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Ressurecting a long dead thread but since the original post, has there been any advancements in this?
I, like the original post, still would rather play an actual FEY than an elf or gnome. Has there been anything like this recently? I know the argument still stands that an elf is basically exactly what I want ... just not an elf but a fey ... but I'd like to just see if there is a cannon answer. Otherwise its back to elves.
Ressurecting a long dead thread but since the original post, has there been any advancements in this?
I, like the original post, still would rather play an actual FEY than an elf or gnome. Has there been anything like this recently? I know the argument still stands that an elf is basically exactly what I want ... just not an elf but a fey ... but I'd like to just see if there is a cannon answer. Otherwise its back to elves.
There might be something in the bestiary II, but I don't have it. Outside of that possibility or 3PP, nope.
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It sounds more like you want different abilities than those the elves have.
It's pretty easy to take any race your dm will let you play, and just create a background/world view that fits with their statistics and delineates them strongly as fey creatures.
For example, take all the stats from the elf.
Now, rename the elf to, oh, Seyond, or whatever you like. Come up with a setting.
Seyonds are fey creatures of the woods. They tend to avoid contact with other intelligent races, preferring to remain in the sylvan environments they love so much.
On rare occasions, a Seyond will venture forth from the woods, but only when great calamity threatens. Usually, one Seyond is all it takes.
And now you've got a "new" race, just chock full of flavor and ready to play at the table with no risk of upsetting game balance.
Another idea (not exactly what you're looking for) is to play a synthesist (summoner variant) and re-fluff it as your inherent racial abilities. They even give a fae model:
Fey
The eidolon looks like a fey creature such as a dryad, nymph,
pixie, or satyr. Fey eidolons usually appear as attractive
humanoids and may have insect or butterfly wings. An
aquatic fey such as a nixie can be created by adding the gills
and swim evolutions, resulting in a 24-point model.
22 points: Base Form biped; Primary Evolutions basic
magic* (daze, dancing lights, detect magic, or ghost sound),
weapon training; Secondary Evolutions damage reduction
(lawful), dimension door*, flight, low-light vision*, major
magic* (cure moderate wounds or invisibility), minor magic*
(obscuring mist or vanish), spell resistance.
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It sounds more like you want different abilities than those the elves have.
Actually no. The EXACT same abilities are fine. The look is generally fine (from a male perspective at least. Females are a bit thin for me but thats not the point right now).
I'm just a stickler for trying to stay as true to the world as possible (world being Golarion) and was just hoping there might be an actual FEY race yet. Hell if elves were of the fey subtype, I'd be golden. As I said, its SIMPLY from an RP perspective while trying to stay core too.
If it doesn't exist, that's cool. I just wanted to see.
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So what you want then is a creature with the Fey subtype? Not just a creature with ties to the fey like the gnome/elf, but an actual subtype?
Just trying to be clear on what you're looking for.
These are the creatures with the fey subtype:
brownie, dryad, forlarren, gremlins, grig, kelpie, korred, leprechaun, lurker in light, mite, nereid, nymph, pech, pixie, quickling, redcap, satyr, twigjack, ankou[PA], atomie[CNV], battle imp[3PP], blodeuwedd[PA], blodeuwedd queen[V], buckawn[CNV], grimstalker[PA], lemkin[3PP], nucklavee[PA], skin stealer[PA], spring-heeled jack[PA]
Brownie is cr1, Gremlin, Pugwampi is cr 1/2. The mite is fey subtype, and is mentioned as a possible player race. Of all of them, the mite is the best equipped to be a pc. However, remember that if you want to play one of the other races here, that what you really need to do is to talk to your dm about it. In many cases, it will just require a level adjustment.
