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Perhaps one of the more underused creature types, Fey are one of the most interesting and frustrating varieties of monsters that Dungeon Masters can use to torment their players. In Dungeons & Dragons, Fey creatures are derived from the Feywild in some way, shape, or form. The Feywild is a plane adjacent to the material place where faeries, pixies, and other magical creatures reside. Within the Feywild are creatures of the Seelie Court that embody whimsy and playful joy, as well as creatures of the Unseelie that are the embodiment of chaos and destructive habits.
These two sides of Fey type creatures provide much versatility when adding them to a campaign. While many Fey creatures may seem silly, some are quite horrifying and will flavor encounters.
10 Boggles Are The Essence Of Pranksters From The Feywild
Boggles are small little creatures that take much delight in pranking people. They are spawned from loneliness and look like little goblins with massive heads and long spindly limbs.
Boggles aren’t necessarily dangerous, but they’re excellent creatures for playing tricks on the party. They excrete oil that can either be slippery or sticky depending on what the boggle wants to do. Boggles can also create a dimensional rift that allows them to move virtually anywhere in a given space, making them hard to catch.
9 Blink Dogs Are The Canine Version Of Displacer Beasts
Blink dogs are simple Fey creatures with very little associated flavor text, other than the fact that they spawn from the Feywild and have a hatred for displacer beasts and attack them on sight.
Though they’re straightforward creatures, the blink dog can provide much detail to a Feywild campaign. They can either be used as hunting dogs from the true big bad or introduced as pets for the party to adopt. Either way, a dog that can teleport is something most players will enjoy.
8 Quicklings Are The Fastest Fey In The Feywild
Quicklings, much like their namesake, are some of the fastest creatures in the Feywild and possibly in the entire material plane. They appear as small little faerie-like creatures with dark blue skin. They were once normal-sized lazy creatures until they were cursed by the Queen of the Winter Court to be constantly moving at all times.
Due to their speed, they have a movement of 120 feet. Thus, any creatures that try to attack them have a disadvantage on every attack. The quickling also has innate Evasion, so they can pretty much dodge any area of effect spell. These creatures would be great to add either as messengers or as scouts to torment the party.
7 Redcaps Want Nothing But Bloodshed
Redcaps are created when a creature visits the Feywild with intent or desire for carnage and destruction. Redcaps are born from these intense emotions. Redcaps look like small gnomes in the distance but up close, players can see their long sinewy bodies, usually brandishing a scythe.
Though Redcaps are incapable of Stealth, they’re built for combat and they can move up to their speed to attack a creature in battle. Surprisingly, they can grapple medium creatures even though they’re considered small. Adding these little devils will surely spook an unsuspecting party.
6 Dryads Are Entrapped Fey Spirits Of Nature
Dryads are majestic Fey creatures that are often the result of a Fey spirit disobeying another more powerful Fey. Dryads are spirits trapped within trees as punishment for their crimes, usually involving falling in love with a mortal being. They appear as feminine figures made out of plants or other natural materials.
Though not particularly difficult to face in a fight, they can be very elusive to an adventuring party as they can teleport between the trees around them. More significantly, though, is their ability to charm almost any humanoid creature, resulting in the dryad making a potentially powerful ally in every encounter.
5 Yeth Hounds Are The Nightmare Version Of A Hunting Dog
Yeth hounds look like something out of a fever dream. These large creatures have a canine-like body but the face of a humanoid creature. They act like hunting dogs for evil beings and serve only their master’s will.
While the yeth hound is vulnerable to sunlight, the creature has a terrifying howl that can be heard up to 300 feet away and frightens any listener who fails a Wisdom save. This also allows the yeth hound to deal extra psychic damage to their frightened target after their bite attack. That makes for an overqualified hunting dog.
4 Korreds Personify The Ultimate Bad Hair Day
Korreds are odd little Fey creatures. Often residing in rocky areas or underground, korreds are small hairy creatures with immense mineral knowledge, stonework, or treasures. They are deceptively strong given their small stature and have roughly 50 feet of magical hair attached to them.
They can use their long hair to entangle other creatures and manipulate the earth for whatever purpose they desire. These little creatures might be a fun character to feature if the party is treasure hunting deep within the mountains, making for a powerful ally or enemy for the party to face.
3 Hags Offer Unique Variants On Witches
Hags are the gruesome witches born from the Feywild. They often come in various shapes and sizes, ranging from the common fairy tale-like green hag to the horrifying hunchbacked annis hags. Even more terrifying is that three hags often form a coven, making them even more powerful as a unit.
Hags can be used as the primary antagonist of a Feywild campaign or as a hair-raising encounter for a Halloween one-shot. Because hags are often flavored with district looks and powerful spellcasting abilities, every encounter with them will be just as memorable as the last.
2 Eladrin Are Elves Who Embody Emotions And The Seasons
Another versatile Fey creature, the Fey eladrin are supposedly the original elves before elves broke off into the material plane. The eladrin come in four different versions embodying autumn, spring, summer, and winter. They also tend to be driven by a specific emotion that accompanies their respected season.
Eladrin can act as a general populace in the Feywild. They often do not harbor any malice or spite and instead search for all things beautiful. Eladrin can be effective in showing the party different aspects of the Feywild as their seasonal embodiments represent the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. There are tons of roleplay opportunities with eladrin.
1 Trostani Are An Amalgamation Of Three Separate Dryads Into One Powerful Fey Creature
This Fey creature was introduced to Dungeons & Dragons in the expansion book, the Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica. The Trostani is a guild master of the Selesnya guild that comprises of three dryads connected to a single tree. They can speak as one, but each dryad can use their melodic voice individually.
This Fey creature is rarely seen in most campaigns, but makes for an excellent final boss for any nature-based or Feywild campaign. A Dungeon Master can adjust the backstory of the Trostani to provide a memorable and magical encounter for their players to enjoy.
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