Even when you’re equipped with quickstart materials (as we discussed a few episode ago…!), it can be daunting to prepare your/your players’ first Changeling game. Many of the potential speed bumps can be smoothed over with a solid Session Zero, where everyone gets together, talks about the characters they want to play, the particular game […]
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Another dive into the library…! This week, we’re taking a closer look at the ill-tempered genius of the nockers as we flip through the pages of their Kithbook, the third in the lineup. There are certainly some interesting tidbits in this one: the origins of nockers’ foul mouths, some fast-and-loose chimerical “science”, a panoply of
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There are a few different ways to summarize Changeling: the Dreaming and its themes. “You’re a faerie in a human body” and its variations are a common starting point; “it’s about the struggle to keep imagination alive” might be another. The conflict (or is it, really?) between Glamour and Banality is our topic for this
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a tabletop RPG with a rich setting is in want of an overflow book for all the material unceremoniously cut from the corebook. Changeling’s 2nd edition was no exception, and so we have the Book of Lost Dreams, a slim volume that touches on crossover rules with other
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Greetings, Dreamers! After a couple months’ hibernation, we have returned to start bringing you content once again, as we enter the enchanted realm of 2nd edition… so of course, we must begin with the corebook, a tome near and dear to both our hearts. We really tried to rein it in, and this still ended
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Hey all! This is just our quick wrap-up for the end of our first season (which we’ve sort of stumbled into properly calling a season now). It’s a handful of thoughts on what we’ve accomplished, and what we’d like to do in the coming year. Thanks again for listening and supporting our podcast so far,
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For our last long-form episode of 2022, we’re diving into the library again, but this time we’re headed to the fiction section, and the Immortal Eyes novel trilogy. These books tie in to the three Immortal Eyes setting/chronicle books from 1st edition, fleshing out the story and giving some more options for incorporating the plot
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Changelings are part fae, part human. But what about their fellows who are even humaner, or humans who are entirely so, with nothing inherently fae about them? This episode, we return to the library to talk about The Enchanted, Changeling’s supplement for “Year of the Ally” and the final(!) book of the 1st edition. While
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Greetings, all! This episode is dropping a bit later than anticipated, because it’s our longest yet, but also one of our most important. Today we’re talking about Changeling’s version of the Nunnehi, the Indigenous fae of Concordia whose presentation has been a mixed bag over the editions. We’re not focused on a particular book, since
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Croeso! We are wrapping up our trilogy of episodes on Isle of the Mighty with an exploration into Wales/Cymru and the fae/Tylwyth Teg that dwell there. The unfortunate news is that Book 3 of this weighty tome has a lot of the same issues we called out previously: clunky choices for the history section, uneven
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