Episode – Changeling the Podcast

episode 69 — shining host player’s guide with pete woodworth

Changeling the Podcast

episode 69 — shining host player's guide with pete woodworth

00:00 / 1:57:07

We’re returning to the world of Live-Action RolePlaying this week, as we flip through the second and final of the Mind’s Eye Theatre books produced for Changeling. Author and developer Peter Woodworth returns to talk about the creation of the Shining Host Player’s Guide. Even if you prefer throwing dice around the table to dressing …

episode 69 — shining host player’s guide with pete woodworth Read More »

episode 68 — book of lost houses

Changeling the Podcast

episode 68 — book of lost houses

00:00 / 1:43:22

Sometimes a House isn’t so much lost as misplaced, but sometimes you misplace four and a half of them. This was how the sidhe did back at the turn of the millennium, but good news! Those waywards are coming back through the gates in Book of Lost Houses: The Second Coming, the tome that gave …

episode 68 — book of lost houses Read More »

episode 67 — kith-building workshop

Changeling the Podcast

episode 67 — kith-building workshop

00:00 /

It’s a time-honored tradition among Changeling groups to construct their own kiths, but the process has always been idiosyncratic. Doing justice to folklore and balanced game mechanics don’t always go hand in hand. Luckily, the 20th Anniversary Edition has provided a basic template for creating them, so we’re taking the opportunity to do a short …

episode 67 — kith-building workshop Read More »

episode 66 — war in concordia

Changeling the Podcast

episode 66 — war in concordia

00:00 / 1:14:09

Just in time for Guy Fawkes Night (and a bit on the early side of our usual release day), we’re looking at the breakdown of social order in fae realms… kiiiind of? Despite its title, we’ve uncovered in our reading that War in Concordia: The Shattered Dream is more about widespread political tensions, the occasional …

episode 66 — war in concordia Read More »

episode 65 — kithbook: redcaps

Changeling the Podcast

episode 65 — kithbook: redcaps

00:00 / 1:01:23

They eat what they want—when they want—who they want. And what more do you need to know? Quite a bit, actually, if our readthrough of Kithbook: Redcaps is any indication. This is maybe the first book where we had serious differences of opinion about its utility: Josh says it’s the best kithbook, Pooka thinks it’s …

episode 65 — kithbook: redcaps Read More »

episode 64 – time, memory, cyclicality

Changeling the Podcast

episode 64 – time, memory, cyclicality

00:00 / 1:05:05

Pardon us while we get a bit esoteric, but it’s time to talk about time (and memory, and cyclicality). The way the fae experience it is rather different from your garden-variety fleshly linear human types—and yet at the same time, not so different at all. We’re talking about the chaotic progression of time in the …

episode 64 – time, memory, cyclicality Read More »

episode 63.5 — le monde des ténèbres : france

Changeling the Podcast

episode 63.5 — le monde des ténèbres : france

00:00 / 20:51

Salut, gentlefae! It’s time for a solo minisode to fill in the Banal void of the working week. In this installment, Pooka discusses Le Monde des Ténèbres : France, one of the few 90s World of Darkness books not developed by White Wolf. Published by Ludis International at the start of 1997, the book only …

episode 63.5 — le monde des ténèbres : france Read More »

episode 63 — denizens of the dreaming

Changeling the Podcast

episode 63 — denizens of the dreaming

00:00 / 1:13:08

In they crawled through the long-shuttered gates, slowly they slithered into the world—the Dark-kin have arrived at last! And as we go on our flipthrough of Denizens of the Dreaming, we realized… well, not all of them are all that Dark. And they don’t much act like kin. And are they even really all “of …

episode 63 — denizens of the dreaming Read More »

episode 62 — changeling metaphysics 101

Changeling the Podcast

episode 62 — changeling metaphysics 101

00:00 / 1:40:06

Settle down, class! If you didn’t mean to attend this first lecture for the Faelosophy major, then we suggest you exit gracefully now… but if you’d just like to stay and audit, that’s fine too. We’re talking about Changeling metaphysics today, hashing out some of the Deeper Questions about the nature of being, the relationship …

episode 62 — changeling metaphysics 101 Read More »

episode 61 — midnight circus

Changeling the Podcast

episode 61 — midnight circus

00:00 / 1:28:30

Egads! a crossover! We’re joining forces with Josh Heath of the inestimable Werewolf: the Podcast and Terry Robinson of the redoubtable Mage: the Podcast to talk about Midnight Circus, an all-line World of Darkness book from the glory days of the mid-90s. This is back in time for all of us, relative to our respective …

episode 61 — midnight circus Read More »