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I plan on being a fairy who came from the Feywild to the Material Plane via fey crossings, and there are some things that are good about this, and some that are bad.

For starters, I've noticed that the 3 spells with "person" in the name (hold person, charm person, and dominate person) don't affect me, in addition to calm emotions. However, as I am native to the Feywild, I am affected by things like banishment, banishing smite, anything with "evil and good" in the name (dispel evil and good, protection from evil and good, detect evil and good, etc), and a few other things.

Do the spell immunities balance out the vulnerabilities? Do those tradeoffs make fey characters balanced when compared to the other playable races?

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    \$\begingroup\$ I tried my hand at reframing the question, to hopefully make it less opinion-based. Worst case, this could stay closed as too broad, but I think this framing should at least grant room for non-opinion-based answers. \$\endgroup\$
    – Matthieu
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Matthieu thank you for the help with editing the question. \$\endgroup\$
    – Tasi
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    \$\begingroup\$ It's impossible to evaluate "fey in general". You could perhaps try to figure out if "fey" is a net positive or negative overall (indicating whether the other racial features should be stronger or weaker to compensate), but the entire set of racial features, as a whole, is what has to be balanced. If you want a more unambiguously positive creature type, Spelljammer offers races with the Construct, Ooze, and Monstrosity types, all of which provide the protections of being non-Humanoid, with few or no negatives in terms of added vulnerabilities that Humanoids lack. \$\endgroup\$
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Tasi I am not sure that comparing to other playable races would bring any further helpful information to this questions. If you just ask: "Do the spell immunities balance out the vulnerabilities?", that would be answerable. There are two quite separate things being asked in your question at the moment because you then ask to compare that part of the question to all other playable races (of which there are, a lot). \$\endgroup\$
    – Senmurv
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    \$\begingroup\$ I'm reminded of a question I asked here ages ago, I'll leave it as a "related question": What are the mechanical consequences of a Centaur's Fey trait? \$\endgroup\$
    – NathanS
    Commented Sep 4 at 22:18

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We can't tell you this

A question of balance is more an issue for 3rd party races and not so much officially published races. While there may be opinion about what race may be 'stronger' or 'better' for any given build specifics, the general take-away is that the WoTC provides balanced options for players.

That doesn't mean that the choices are equal - just generally balanced. You're going to have to look at specific pros and cons of the races you are deciding between and then make a decision as to what you're willing to give up for what you get. The same as any risk analysis or build decision.

In your case, you seem fairly invested in this fairy idea and I'm not sure why you want to pull away at this point after all the questions you've asked for your build. It's totally fine to switch it up before your first session, but the thoughts you're having are really best discussed with your DM and not strangers on the internet. They know the game they're developing, they know you, and they know the group.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ And this is probably the worst time to ask too, because the session is later today \$\endgroup\$
    – Tasi
    Commented Sep 4 at 12:49

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