So, my party found a one-way teleport I thought they wouldn't take and they took it.
I rolled randomly, like a champ. They ended up on the border between a papal-like clerical state and the major elven kingdom. They can head either way. We play again next weekend.
For the papal state, I have a border village prepped, a larger town based on Lud-In-The-Mist (http://www.sfsite.com/05a/lm103.htm) that denies the existence of elves but does a brisk trade with them through a proxy settlement, and thenceforth a setting for the Dragonsfoot adventure Red Tam's Bones (http://www.dragonsfoot.org/php4/archive.php?sectioninit=FE&fileid=298), which will lead the party to the knowledge of the Faery lands lurking beneath ...
For the elven kingdom, I have a probable encounter with some elves, but I'd like that to lead to the faerie world too (the Tolkienoid elves are actually half human and half the wilder faerie folk and there is constant intrigue.) I'm, thus looking for a woodland adventure out there involving the faerie folk on their own terms, not interacting with humans like the Red Tam scenario.
I should mention I'm not a fan of "pallet switching" and I like to have different stuff lurking in different parts of my world. I use enough free and cheap material that it doesn't hurt too much when the party goes elsewhere than planned.
Any suggestions?
An Immortal Elfin Knight challenges all who pass to a contest (throwing spears, jousting, something like that.) If they win he invites them to his/her place for supper. The food of course has strange effects on humans, but he warns them what they can eat safety
A water faery is in love with an Elf/Human whatever, she cannot leave her pond. Help her contact her love to tell him the truth.
A faery swarm (pixies/sprites, whatever winged tiny faeries you have) has lost their home, driven off by vicious wasps. Help them end the war.
A beautiful maiden tempts one of the players. She will try and kill them/devour their vitality. She is notable in having a hollow back and a cows tails
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Love Faerie use it all the time.
So if you haven't read Books of Magic then try and source a few copies, also Brian Froud can not be beaten and watch StarDust.
the secret with fairies is that they seem fairer but feel fouler. They are cruel, fickle, and dismissive.
Classic fairy tropes
i) Never take a gift without offering reparations. If you do you may well be bound into indentured servitude or similar - effecticvely a gaes
ii) A faerie will always try to interpret your request in as literal a way as possible. So rather like wishes if they wish for a sowrd just like the one Dave has the faey steal Dave's sword etc
iii) The Faey never reveal so no exposition scenes.
iv) They are vain and vanity and pride are their main weaknesses
v) time means nothing to the Faey. A while maybe a year, a short time maybe 10 years, they have no problem flitting away for years and level you expecting a response tomorrow.
etc
good luck
The faeries will know of other spirits in the forest. They tell the PCs there is a bogle somewhere in the woods: if you accept anything he gives you freely, he will own your soul. But he can adopt any appearance he wants.
Ive had a similar problem. Ive picked up the adventure Realm of the Fellnight Queen (Pathfinder) and am adapting it a bit. There is a gateway in the forest to a not so hospitable faerie realm.
The ShadowRift from Ravenloft is also a good one, though as you can imagine, quite dark.
Thanks - these ideas and tips will come in handy!
I also had the brainstorm of lifting some plot and setting details from Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist and Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market. Fairy fruit, floating downstream ...
The Lyonesse fairy kingdom is great too. I'd probably end up using this as an excuse to inflict a permanent itching curse on one of the players...
The dude that does the Huge Ruined Pile blog (and did Thool) had an awesome fairytale setting called Mandragora that I think he lost a lot of when G+ sketched out on him or something; this post is from it: http://hugeruinedpile.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/the-fairy-of-the-desert-and-the-yellow-dwarf/
and he says in the comments he's still got most of it archived. Honestly I thought it was some of the coolest Faerie inspired stuff I've ever seen.
Maybe worth contacting him?
'The Goblin Fair' by Matt Finch, has a lot of Faerie encounters.
I saw this book recently in print. Has some clever ideas in it. http://www.amazon.com/Good-Faeries-Bad-Brian-Froud/dp/0684847817/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343997771&sr=8-1&keywords=good+fairies+bad+fairies
Quote from: jibbajibba;566701So if you haven't read Books of Magic then try and source a few copies
Good suggestion. I would also suggest the obvious (http://shakespeare.mit.edu/midsummer/full.html) for some basic grounding. Also, it's not Faerie as such, but Lady Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/gafm) offers a great view into the starker, darker and mistier world of Irish mythology which can be mined for Faerie-appropriate stuff.
Wikipedia has good historical coverage of faerie lore. Mushroom rings, dance til death, etc...
Pendragon is your friend.