Faeries suck. Ppl only play them for invokers or psis. And thats because of their huge mana.
For all other classes mana isn't as critical and the physical stats sum is very bad.
Faeries: 14 str 25 int 20 wis 23 dex 14 con
Autosneak, immune to faerie fire, can't cast faerie fire, autoflight, tiny size. 325xp pen
Alignment : good
Ethos : lawful, neutral, chaotic
Max Stat : str: 14 int: 25 wis: 20 dex: 23 con: 14
Classes : thief, invoker, battlemage, bard
I think faeries should have their str bumped to 16, just bellow halflings. To reduce their melee penalty.
Faerie immunity has become less powerful with the new poisoning weapons and bleeding. Also there is a not so rare item that removes faerie fire. So perhaps increase their quality of life with racial detect invisibility and perhaps detect magic. Since they are fae creatures.
Automatic flight in the age of dragonkin orbs, floating wands and that herb isn't as valuable. And unlike avians whose medium size allows them to capitalise on the +5% bash avoidance.
14 con is quite low, but changing it would empower mages, when we should be empowering melees.
I think we should open more races for them like BLMs and rangers. Because i think that with 16 str they would be somewhat viable.
They should make reasonable archers and interesting blademasters.