Plot problems

[Ireth]

Take a look at who your characters meet and why it's important, if at all, to meet them. Heck in a fantasy they don't have to meet actual people. They could be lost in a forest and meet a talking tree, a brownie who won't let them out of a pit. Heck they could meet an air elemental. So try thinking not so much as "who do they meet?" but more of "what do they meet?" That way the situation in which they meet these other characters could produce points of conflict or rising tension which will pick your story up.

For the record, that's why I like writing fantasy more than anything. The cast of characters is practically limitless.

Oh, of course. ^^ None of the characters my core group meets will be human (at least not fully human), just Fae. Redcaps, Kelpies, Daoine Sidhe, possibly a half-goblin, even a unicorn or two.

 

[Addison]

Then, friendly suggestion, use the nature of those fae to twist around how they meet your main characters. The circumstances, the setting (which can be an obstacle itself it you do it right) and everything else about them.