The Fairy Has Arrived! Full Breakdown of the New Flying Race from Wild Beyond the Witchlight!

[@sproetland]

does this mean i can finally live up to my winx club d&d crossover dream

[@WintryRPG]

This is the moment you've been waiting for 🧚‍♀️

[@Cobalt_Rain]

If you choose to run a campaign I would love to join!

[@jacintacapelety9600]

I've been reading over the Strixhaven book recently, and it's giving me some serious Alphia College for Fairies vibes.

[@wigglewiggle4201]

Just saying im doing a fairy bard (yes i did base it off musa at first

[@sproetland]

@@wigglewiggle4201 YES wiggles that's the spirit!! I love it. She would make a perfect bard!

[@andresmarrero8666]

I wish that they kept fey passage. Imagining a gaint unraveling into a string of light and going through a keyhole is pure whimsical delight. Going into someone's body would definitely be a no go because like the name suggests you need an open space on the other side to appear in.

[@QueenElzaim]

I personally just asked me dm if we could keep it becsuse it's a neat ability and he allowed it. Hasn't been game breaking yet but it's a fun utility. Definitely sad they removed it officially

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

"You see that lift and clench? That is thoroughbred fairy backside" -Eskala Brightflower

[@Kenji10000]

I'm planning to run a Fairy swashbuckler. Making use of the fly to dart in and out of combat, and not needing an ally to sneak attack. Probably going to call him the wasp or something. Seems fun.

[@celamelamin3961]

I interpreted Fey Passage as turning into a tiny ball of flying light for a very brief amount of time, which could make things even more complicated but it seemed fun

[@michaelmitchell8410]

Primal barbarin on fairy is so good Flight plus high jumping and good damage with out weapons also scorpion tailed fairy sounds so cool

[@cadenmack443]

Be a fairy, choose the armorer artificer subclass, pick the guardian armor model. You're basically wasp from ant-man

[@ZerosWolf]

Big thanks for these informations! It's really hard to find prober information about the D&D Fearie Race, that is more than just the stats!

[@jacintacapelety9600]

My one complaint with the changes from UA to official release is that you can't choose to be medium sized. I feel like a lot of faerie folk flavor options got trimmed by removing an entire size category.

[@clarkside4493]

I'd might do a fairy barbarian as a Redcap who does two weapon fighting.

[@lucasramey6427]

6:23 for barbarian fairy you'd have no reason to invest in much str anyways since you can't reliably use heavy weapons so just invest in dex and con flavor it as you being so small you're extremely hard to hit and use a rapier if you're going all in for barb levels or a shortbow and rapier if you decide to be a rogue with levels of barbarian to be a nimble durable powerhouse with pretty decent saving throws and ac

[@desasterlord7108]

Dual wielding light weapons is actually more effective on barbarians because they get to add rage bonus on off-hand attacks aswell, meaning you don't necessarily need the Great weapons.

[@angelalewis3645]

I really like your videos over so many of the other dungeons and dragons channels. Thanks for keeping it both clean and happy. :)

[@WintryRPG]

thanks so much! welcome to the channel 👋

[@ross8093]

A fairy bloodhunter as basically a redcap is a fun idea

[@PokeBallZSack]

Love you winter and thanks for the updates :D

[@kitkup8570]

I just realized with the Fairy having insectile legs and with them now being the size of Halflings instead of nearly Tiny, we now have Small Winged Spider Centaurs

[@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos]

Seems like a flying Arcane Trickster with Faerie Fires out the wazoo would be pretty deece. Also, pixie warlocks have been a go-to in previous versions; they seem great here, too

[@Dragoon42]

Rune Knight fairy = Ant-Man

[@MiningwithPudding]

16 strength Fairy. Imagine being picked up and carried by something the size of your fist.

[@joelrobinson5457]

Fairy bard, imagine being seduced by something that could fit in a shoe

[@XXGeneralzerohourXX]

So why is no one talking about Rune Knight fairy? Guaranteed a Huge creature in combat? Some fun stuff you can do with that!

[@kelving420]

Holy SHIT, a huge fairy would be so weird but so awesome lmao

[@XXGeneralzerohourXX]

@@kelving420 decapitaded a dragon as a large fairy XD at higher levels you can become huge or gigantic I think. What’s huge size x2

[@Fyngys]

@@XXGeneralzerohourXX enlarge while it doubles, mechanically is only 1 size increase, which is still gigantic

[@davyt0247]

I'm playing as a Fairy Life Domain Cleric, it's been fun!

[@ishi91]

The Rune Knight HUGE Fighter is quite tricky tho, since you'd have to keep the concentration up for the Enlarge spell, meaning a CON saving throw for each time you take damage...

[@zatiriryna6556]

I am currently playing the Witchlight campaign, and i am playing a fairy barbarian, she is chaos itself with an innocent smile :3 I made her too look like a moth, with larger wings and fluffy antenna!

[@zimattack9994]

I have this idea for a artificer/wizard who travels in a streamer truck mech think hals halls moving Castile with massive library of really small books

[@AAAndrew]

The next campaign I'm playing in, starting in a couple of months, I'm playing a fairy Wild Magic Barbarian. He can fly in, rage, hit the barbarian wild magic table, then start whacking with a battle ax, which he can use two-handed. He's a short little punk fairy with lavender skin and dragonfly wings, and tattoos.

[@JKSSubstandard]

Fairy pairs really well with beast barbarian who has natural weapons and doesn't need to use heavy weapons. Be the mosquito

[@lucasramey6427]

Another idea would be ancestral guardian and reflavor the spirits as a swarm of fairies to make it difficult to attack others also dump str since you won't need it for heavy weapons since a rapier would be your best weapon and you wouldn't have to focus on 3-4 ability scores you could just have minimum 13 str incase you ever want to multiclass (also only two abilities from base barbarian rely on str and that's the rage damage bonus, which is minuscule and hardly matters, and reckless attack which is a small positive and a huge negative because any creature that attacks you will have advantage until the start of your turn which could easily get you killed for example I know someone who played a barbarian in a game I was in and they fought a Dullahan and the barbarian reckless attacked and as such the Dullahan had advantage and crit which means the barbarian lost their head and died, the ability is only a detriment

[@Dickythemainman]

If I was a DM for a fairy PC (or knowing the people who DM for me I think this would be a valid ask) I would allow a version of Fey Passage with the stipulation that you have to be in Reduced form from the Enlarge/Reduce spell. That way it keeps the cool aesthetic gameplay mechanic, but offers limitations in terms of amount of times the PC is able to do it per day and the time limit of one minute.

[@lidular]

I really wanna make a super chaotic sassy fairy now

[@SulliverVittles]

Honestly one of the biggest downers of the switch from UA to the book was the removal of the wingless option, only because I just didn't want my fairy to have wings. That said, nearly every character of mine is going to be a fairy.

[@Vespuchian]

That's an easy talk with your DM. I'm running a Fairy right now and cosmetically they don't have wings but follow normal flight rules. The kicker for the rules was that the UA specified that Faries 'could hover' and that the flight was explicitly magical, which means they wouldn't fall if they were knocked prone, had speed reduced to zero, or otherwise unable to move (thus, zero downsides to flying all the time). Rules-wise removing 'can hover' means flight isn't situationally overpowered, but as for physical wings? That's cosmetic and an easy ask to the DM.

[@charlesspencer3121]

honestly, the 5e fairy race is very disappointing for me. They removed pretty much everything that actually makes you Fey other than the creature type, which goes against established lore with other races, such as those that have Fey blood somewhere in their history, and as such gain things like advantage against charm effects, or the inability to magically be put to sleep. The reason this goes against the lore already established with the previously released races for the edition is that you only need a tiny fraction of Fey blood to gain these benefits, but a full blooded Fey, and one of the ones meant to be on the higher end of the magically inclined? nah. I can understand why they decided to go with having the race be small sized, since for some reason 5e is afraid of having player characters be anything other than medium or small, but if you're going to do so, you should leave a race meant to be tiny out of the options all together imo, at least the Fey Passage ability allowed you to roleplay as though you were tiny at least sometimes, but they decided you aren't allowed to have fun with having the race meant to be tiny at least think it was tiny. personally, I don't know whether I would have preferred them completely leave the fairy race out of 5e as being playable or not, based on how they decided to butcher it.

[@EvelynNdenial]

they should have done fairies right or not at all. introduce a level adjustment for monsterous races with any powerful abilities, like the fairies casting, and write some god damn creature size rules.

[@maw5646]

Here, here.

[@demiurge2763]

I'm a little dissapointed that they still have to concemtrate on Enlarge/Reduce when they use it on themselves, it ruins some of the flavor imo. I would have rather they got a seperate ability that allowed them to become tiny for an amount of time instead of getting spellcasting.

[@argeorunter9009]

How does Fairys work with Lycantrophy?, normally it would not happen but... Harkon's Bite gives lycantrophy via attunement curse...

[@WintryRPG]

Sounds like a mini-flying werewolf! :D

[@argeorunter9009]

@@WintryRPG actually this object is kindda extrange, using this, every creature that can have attunement can be werewolf, construct, fey, beast, plant... This thing have not attunement prerequisites (humanoid), even tho, rogue thief and artíficer still could overpass these restriction if it exist. Pss: My fairy is now a dog eared and tailed girl that becames butterfly winged flying chiguagua or papillion... (do not attune any thing in a vampire's sarcophagus...)

[@redwitchlizzy]

The Beast Barbarian would be a good option for a Fairy Barb since it's based around gaining and using a natural weapon.

[@Mariwend]

they should technically have free access to misty step. The way the spell works is that you slip through ethereal passages that are basically mini feywilds. (Honestly i would personally say they were in the astral but in cannon they aren't,) So a fairy of any type should be able to recognize and use these passages. Even a druid that knows barely anything about the feywild can do it sometimes. Some warlocks get better things than that.

[@dnaseb9214]

I played a swashbuckler fairy once, and my friend squashed me

[@derrickhaggard]

Playing as a Fairy Fiend Warlock in a Wildemount campaign.

[@HowtoRPG]

Thanks.

[@loganphillips2166]

Fairy juggernaut barbarian! Never get knocked prone and siege damage!

[@ollep0lle]

When I play as a fairy Im going to demand to be tiny. I dont care about innate magic spells or other stuff. Nerf me if you want, but I want to be something like Navi, not just a flying kid…

[@jakobpells9283]

Flies to a dragon at 60ft per turn, punches his head and stuns him out of the sky

[@andrewdowns3673]

What about subraces? Does anyone have any ideas of what those could be like?

[@32Loveless50]

made a Fairy Barbarian Path of the Beast. with that i can be a flying wasp :D two weapon fighting and with scorpion tail while raging :D

[@rnp497]

playing a hexsword bard and having a blast

[@binolombardi]

Fairy mechanics: can’t wear medium armor and fly Fairy art in the book: ima just wear scale mail. Winged tiefling: yea armor shouldn’t be worn by flying races for balance…

[@gregkirby9059]

if you are a fairy druid can you become a flying spider or such?

[@lucasramey6427]

They used to be able to in the ua since it was magical flight that didn't require their wings but now you can't

[@littlekittyphantommadness9049]

😳I was told that anything with a fly speed can hover. My friend told me (anything that can fly can hover at half their flight speed) is that not true?

[@WintryRPG]

Nope! Anything that can hover explicitly says "(hover)" in its statblock.

[@littlekittyphantommadness9049]

@@WintryRPG 😄she's been telling people that wrong then four years! LOL! 👍Thanks for the update I'll let her know too.

[@littlekittyphantommadness9049]

@@WintryRPG 😕one more question. Hover is half their flight speed if they can hover or is that wrong to?

[@WintryRPG]

@@littlekittyphantommadness9049 "Flying creatures enjoy many benefits of mobility, but they must also deal with the danger of falling. If a flying creature is knocked prone, has its speed reduced to 0, or is otherwise deprived of the ability to move, the creature falls, unless it has the ability to hover or it is being held aloft by magic, such as by the fly spell." PHB p.191 This is the *only* rule about hovering! It simply is the immunity to falling if knocked prone in the sky, nothing else. It's most commonly seen in monster statblocks (next to their fly speed) and some class features. Hope this helps!

[@theRainyMute]

random character idea, fairy path of wild magic barbarian with tavern brawler, incase u ever wanted to be an angry stick weilding fairy

[@gattorosso4784]

Since they did not specify the height and their size is small, we can have fairies as big as a gnome or a halfling. I was expecting something tinier than than! Also, why is the speed much higher than halflings and gnomes (not flying speed, I mean) 😳

[@joelrobinson5457]

You ever try and catch a fly, or for the matter a running spider

[@kitkup8570]

Enlarge/Reduce is by no means a suitable replacement for Fey Passage, as it's a 1 min ability to replace a permanant effect, really Fairys was just nerfed way too heavily nerfed by having both their Flight nerfed and removal of their Fey Passage resulting in the race overall being too weak and badly needing a revision.

[@sheevpalpatine6139]

I wouldn't have used its flight anyways. Or Fey Passage. But since they aren't humanoid and their ability score options are flexible, I'd say they're a solid enough choice for someone who doesnt know what they want

[@kitkup8570]

@@sheevpalpatine6139 Since Tashas every races ability scores are flexible, this one just makes it so if the DM wants to disallow Tashas that they will just staight ban this race outright or just decide that Fairy is +2 dex +1 cha Also not being humanoid isn't all that great, it makes it so other very powerful abilitys now can target you that couldn't otherwise In other words them being Fay isn't exactly an up side, it's more of just a change, I haven't weighed the pros and cons of the change to let you know which is better but from what I know humanoid might be better

[@quietandsimple5134]

Bladesinger Fairy :3

[@bjarnivalur6330]

Have you considered selling Wintry Wyvern plushies?

[@WintryRPG]

if I ever get off the ground, sure xD

[@melonyfbb]

@@WintryRPG please narrator your pet wyv is soooo cuuuute

[@alexpaul9407]

How does enlarge/reduce replace being able to slip through a one inch gap, I thought they were the size of halflings so like 3 feet tall that means the absaloute minimum height you'd get with the spell is one foot. A one foot tall thing is not getting through a one inch gap unless I'm imagining this wrong. Also does anyone know how long they'd live I can't seem to find it anywhere.

[@lennardchurch8483]

Contortionists can fit through almost anywhere they can fit their head through, and a humanoid one foot tall may very well have a head only an inch across, making it possible to squeeze through the 1 inch hole. As far as I'm aware, Fae creatures don't grow old, and in fact, the more youthful-looking and beautiful the faerie, the older and more dangerous it probably is. As such they only die if something kills them, and in some cases like familiars, even death just sends them home.

[@crapstirrer]

The have the racial spell to reduce them to tiny which is the boundary for squeezing. May houserule that to do the one inch gap.

[@brianmaxwell4285]

So what classifies as Small? Like almost Halfling size?

[@CharroArgentino]

Small is 3 to 5 feet tall at most, so gnomes and halflings. Tiny is below that, so Fairies are probably around Gnome size.

[@dogfromotgw]

idk about you but i feel like 3 feet is way too tall for a fairy and kinda wish they had made them tiny

[@GuardianMinerva]

Yeah I was hoping for my pixie fey to rider her battle Corgi named Sir Elton.

[@LarienXI]

iirc small can be as small as 2ft, to just under 5 - with the average there being 3-4ish feet - so you can have a nearly tiny sized fairy still and be within the size category rules

[@CaptnJack]

Why would Hover be considered too powerful?!?

[@Yakmage]

i am so annnoyed with how they used that UA. they didnt print my favoire part, hobgoblin of the feywild, and they stripped out my favorite things about the fairy, wildshaping. im fine without the hover that was op, but i playtested the magical flight and it was fine in my game

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

:D

[@spencerbibby5797]

Given that my only interest in the race was in being able to play as a moon druid that can change into a flying bear (and eventually elephant) that can somehow slip through 1" gaps - I would say that I am probably not going to be playing a fairy anytime soon.

[@LamirLakantry]

I love this race, but I do think it should not permit strength builds so easily. If anything, the race should come with a - 1 strength. Limitations make the game fun, and a buff fairy, while funny for a comedy campaign, is quite lore breaking and does not fit most settings. I'd band that kind of build in a serious campaign and have to argue with my players about why I'm going against the rules of the book. Because it's just silly.

[@kingmasterlord]

they're Small now? why'd they make them so much bigger? that makes them pretty much pointless. I'm going pixy instead. astral monks punch with wis

[@lucasramey6427]

I'm pretty sure they were always small they just had the ability to fit into 1 inch gaps in the ua

[@ikejohnson5494]

Overpowered race. Why would anyone play this instead of anything else except maybe variant human if you are feat reliant

[@fruittea9877]

To play a different race or because you just want to be a fairy

[@CharroArgentino]

Because DnD is a roleplaying game to have fun with friends, min-maxing in such a game is pointless.

[@ikejohnson5494]

@@CharroArgentino then why make powercreep races then? The roleplay aspect of fairies was already satisfied by eladrin

[@demiurge2763]

The reason you'd want to play this race is the same reason you'd want to play any other race, for fun. When I first got into D&D, I wanted to play a fairy druid (and quickly discovering it wasn't a playable race much to my dissapointed), not because I thought I would be op (I thought True Strike was op when I first started, lol), but becauase I thought it would be fun.

[@ikejohnson5494]

@@demiurge2763 I don’t think you can read. I asked why you would want to play something OTHER than this. Also, what fun is there in this that doesn’t come from being overpowered? Being a bird race? Kenku does that just fine.