Prerequisite: Elf (High)
Your study of high elven lore has unlocked fey power that few other elves possess, except your eladrin cousins. Drawing on your fey ancestry, you can momentarily stride through the Feywild to shorten your path from one place to another. You gain the following benefits:
Increase your Intelligence or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
You learn to speak, read, and write Sylvan
You learn the Misty Step spell and can cast it once without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to cast it in this way when you finish a short or long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for this spell.
Fey Teleportation: High Elf? Bye, Elf!
Review by Sam West, Twitter:@CrierKobold
I’m on the record saying I love Misty Step. It's true. The spell is a certified banger that opens some neat doors that only teleportation can. Fey Teleportation gives high elves a free use every SHORT rest, and bumps up your Int or Cha? Yes please!
Misty Step once per short rest goes well on nearly every archetype high elves typically embody. With a +2 Dex and +1 Int, high elves normally fulfill the wizard gish (hybrid caster/martial) fantasies. They’re your eldritch knights, bladesingers, arcane tricksters. They make exceptional artificers, and basically any Dex based class can benefit from a free wizard cantrip. Long proficiency on rogues is a giant upgrade over their normal dependency on the shortbow. All of these options adore a free 30 ft. bonus action teleport; Fey Teleportation gives it to them on a short rest cooldown.
There isn’t a lot more to dissect here. This is a free use of Misty Step. When Misty Step would be good, Fey Teleportation is good. This will feel like you’ve taken a small dip into warlock for a Misty Step pact magic slot you can keep reusing over short rests. It’ll make your character care a lot more about getting short rests in so you can get this reset, which is neat, especially considering most options I’ve referenced don’t typically care that much about their short rests outside fighters.
Without the ability bump I’d take this, but it probably wouldn’t be that good. With the ability bump you best believe this is easily getting onto my character sheets. Not bumping up your Dexterity score makes it a bit harder to justify, but as long as you’re getting a +1 to your Charisma or Intelligence modifier, and your build cares about that, this is a great tool to have access to.
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