episode 95 — c20 player’s guide, part two

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It’s that time again! This second installment of our trilogy of episodes on the Changeling 20th Anniversary Player’s Guide continues as we flip through Chapter Three. What’s that, you say? An entire installment on a single chapter of a single book? Well, yes, because this “World of Dreams” section takes up a third of a […]

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episode 94 — romance and changeling

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What is love? (Baby, don’t hurt me!) In the context of tabletop RPGs, sex and relationships and all the matter around them can be tricky business to navigate for players and Storytellers alike. In the context of romance and Changeling, there are all sorts of specific considerations to think about. What are the norms of

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episode 93 — science fiction and changeling

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Changeling: the Dreaming’s tagline is as a “game of modern fantasy”, and it deals with folklore, epics, and magic… so when you talk to most people about it, they rarely bring up science fiction as a genre that the game ties into. We beg to differ. Dreams of technology, visions of futures utopian and dystopian

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episode 92 — c20 player’s guide, part one

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It begins…! We couldn’t bring ourselves to go through Changeling 20th Anniversary Edition Player’s Guide (quite a mouthful, but we have to distinguish it from the original) in one go, both because it’s an incredibly dense text and because it’s the Last Book. So, we’re splitting it up into a trilogy of episodes. This first

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episode 91 — ten video game inspirations

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It’s been a while since we’ve done a dive into media, so—here goes! Friend of the show Charles Siegel joins for Pooka for a discussion of how video games and tabletop games inform and resemble each other. We go through a shortlist of ten titles for inspiration to round out this series of episodes (for

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episode 90 — in the realm of gods and dreams

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For many years, the Changeling community has longed for a better take on the hsien of East Asia. In our previous episode on their introductory 2e supplement, Land of Eight Million Dreams, we discussed at length how these fae were portrayed in… not the greatest fashion, and it’s a characterization that the 20th Anniversary didn’t

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episode 89 — graceful wicked masques

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And so we return! We’re coming back from hiatus a little bit later than anticipated, both because it was a busy summer, and because we realized there aren’t really that many episodes to get through before the end of the year. So, now that it feels more like autumn in this bit of the world,

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episode 88.4 — storycomic interview

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One more minisode for the summer! We’ll be back to our usual schedule of full episodes in September, but we thought we’d share a cross-production that we participated in a couple weeks ago. Barney Smith from Storycomic reached out to do an interview with us about Changeling: the Dreaming, our podcast, and associated thoughts. So

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episode 88.3 — the rest of 90s changeling fiction

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A surprise minisode, just in time for Highsummer week! We’ve talked about the Immortal Eyes novels, we’ve talked about the Anthology of Dreams, and we’ve even mentioned Pomegranates Full & Fine… but what about the rest of the Changeling fiction from the 90s? This includes The Splendour Falls, a short story collection released in tandem

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episode 88.2 — state of the podcast, midseason 3

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And so we come once again to a bit of downtime, as we wind up the first half of Season 3. It’s just another minisode on the eve of the solstice, to let you know where things stand and what we’ve been up to, plus some of our plans when we return in six weeks,

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