episode 99 — mind’s eye theatre: changeling, bns edition

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In the annals of Changeling history, there are many books that have been promised without coming to fruition. The Changeling atlas, Kingdom books beyond Willows, Book of Glamour… the litany goes on. Things are less clear for C20, but one title with a particular twisty path was By Night Studios’ Mind’s Eye Theatre: Changeling, which […]

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episode 98 — c20 player’s guide, part three

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And so here we are. It’s time to open up the last few chapters of the Changeling 20th Anniversary Player’s Guide, thereby ending our readthroughs of the game’s canon. Feels weird, to be honest. When we started the show, it felt like we’d be going through the library of official texts forever, and now that

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episode 97 — fae demography

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What do you get when you cross the infinity of the Dreaming’s possibilities with eight billion humans? Questions about how many of them are changelings, that’s what. This week, we’re applying the art/science of demography to the fae, throwing numbers and proportions and calculations around like so much spaghetti, so that we can see what

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episode 96 — mortal life

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Changelings, lest we forget, are part human. Spending time in a meatsack isn’t always Glamourous or exhilarating (though it can be both), but it’s an inherent part of their experience that can be interesting both in and of itself, and as a contrast to the escapist fantasies that the Dreaming is built on. Yet players

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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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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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