D&D: Best Fey Characteristics In Wild Beyond The Witchlight

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign for Dungeons & Dragons has added fairy to the playable race roster in the game. The book also has a table with special fey characteristics, which can be used to further add some flavor to the character. Ranging from silly to helpful, which fey characteristics are best?

The fairy initially appeared in an Unearthed Arcana article, where D&D players around the world used it during its playtesting phase. A revised version of the fairy appeared in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, which is cleared for use in most games. The fairy and the rabbitfolk harengon race come from the Feywild, which is the plane where faeries and other supernatural beings dwell. A fairy player character has innate access to certain spells, like druidcraft, along with the ability to fly, which is a highly prized trait.

A fairy character is already likely to stand out in most D&D campaign settings, as the fey are a rare sight in worlds like Faerun and Oerth. The fey characteristics table in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight includes some optional traits that can further define the appearance of the character. These include some abilities that border on the magical for Dungeons & Dragons.

The Best D&D Fey Character Traits In The Wild Beyond The Witchlight

The table in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight presents the player with eight options, but they can pick and choose as they please. One of the best traits is “You smell like fresh brownies”, which any good player should be able to leverage into a bonus while roleplaying in D&D. The scent is one of the most important senses when it comes to interacting with other people, and a person who smells like delicious brownies is bound to make a great first impression wherever they go. The only downside is that this special scent can also work both ways. If the party is being tracked by enemies with a strong sense of smell, then the walking bakery is going to be easy to follow.

For the players who love to make an entrance, there is “A glittering mist constantly surrounds you.” This is great for the players who want the NPCs to know who the protagonists are, and love for everyone to see them as they work the room. It’s not as good for people trying to maintain a low profile. Then again, a fairy Rogue who is constantly glistening, making it extremely hard to hide in the shadows, could make for a good one-off character. The players who want to fully embrace their fey heritage can choose “You have a small spectral horn on your forehead, like a little unicorn horn,” as there are many unicorns that are native to the Domains of Delight in the Feywild. It will probably be annoying to find a helmet that fits, but what Dungeons & Dragons character could resist sporting their own horn?

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A graduate of Edge Hill University in the UK, Scott started out as a film student before moving into journalism. It turned out that wasting a childhood playing video games, reading comic books, and watching movies could be used for finding employment, regardless of what any career advisor might tell you. Scott specializes in gaming and has loved the medium since the early ‘90s when his first console was a ZX Spectrum that used to take 40 minutes to load a game from a tape cassette player to a black and white TV set. Scott now writes game reviews for Screen Rant and The Gamer, as well as news reports, opinion pieces, and game guides. He can be contacted on LinkedIn.

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