A century and a half of full episodes! Or perhaps more appropriately, this is episode CL in Roman numerals, which obviously stands for “Changeling [the] Lost”. And our theme today is to step back from our deep dives into the books for a minute, to look more generally about Storytelling Lost for novices and veterans alike. Reading the text is one thing; putting it into action at the table is another. We explore various ways to engage with the themes, draw upon interesting systems (or not), safety tools, story pacing, and more, because to be frank, at least one of the hosts (guess who!) didn’t think the actual Storytelling chapter in the second edition corebook did enough. And while we tried to pick up the slack in this episode, there’s naturally much more to say on the topic. To that end, here are a few other episodes from Seasons past that dug into it:
- Episode 38: Sessions Zero: So you want to start a chronicle but you’re not exactly sure how? Maybe an intro session with your players would be good, and making sure to account for certain table elements is a necessity.
- Episode 51: Storyteller’s Guide: While this is our dive into the book for Changeling: the Dreaming’s 2nd edition, many of the techniques it explores are relevant to any would-be Storyteller. Perhaps you will find it useful…
- Episode 55: Advanced Storytelling Techniques: …and if not, we followed up a few weeks later with this little number.
- Episode 100: Online Games: Another milestone episode! This one was focused specifically on games through the wild and wonderful world of the interwebs, which (we’re given to understand) is how most of us run games anymore.
- Episode 131: Mirrors: This “blue book” for new World of Darkness explored various permutations of the setting and Storytelling tools to go with them, many of which found their way into the Chronicles of Darkness.
May some configuration of these episodes be a springboard for you to run a chronicle of your own! And tell us about it once you do via any of the usual channels:
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your hosts
Pooka G (any pronoun/they) would like to be a modern day Shahrazad (but without all the pregnancy and threat of beheading, obvs).
Amelia Fetch (she/her) ran her thousandth game session and all she got was this lousy token T-shirt.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.
—Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings