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episode 144.5 — state of the podcast, midseason 5

Changeling the Podcast

episode 144.5 — state of the podcast, midseason 5

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Halfway through! Now that the actual play trilogy has concluded, it’s time for us to treat ourselves to a bit of a break… but of course, that doesn’t mean we’re putting everything on pause. Today’s discussion of the state of the podcast for mid-Season Five covers where we’ve lately been, where we presently are, and […]

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episode 144 — c30 actual play, part three

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Changeling the Podcast

episode 144 — c30 actual play, part three

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And so we come to the final act, part three of our actual play, wherein the heroes make a last-ditch effort to accomplish their goals. What will success look like? What will they learn or gain? Where does the story go from here? All the usual questions, and a fair number of answers, will be

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episode 143 — c30 actual play, part two

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Changeling the Podcast

episode 143 — c30 actual play, part two

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The legend continues as we present part two of our actual play run by Fetch, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Changeling: the Dreaming. In this installment, our intrepid band of heroes (and we use most of those words loosely) conscript allies for their meetcute plan. The place and time are set, the subjects have

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episode 142 — c30 actual play, part one

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Changeling the Podcast

episode 142 — c30 actual play, part one

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Long foretold and lately managed, we finally present our three-part actual play of Changeling: the Dreaming as part of our ongoing-if-sporadic series of things for the game’s 30th Anniversary year. Storyteller Fetch leads players Elerus, J, and Medi through the chimerical landscape of Phoenix, Arizona as their Kithain characters set a plan of midsummer courtly

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episode 141 — twilit eildon

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episode 141 — twilit eildon

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Before the sun finally goes down on Changeling: the Lost’s first edition, we’ve got one more text to talk about. What’s that you say? We’ve gone through all the books and all the Dark Eras, so what could possibly be left? Well, as we prepared those final episodes, author Thomas McVey released Twilit Eildon, a

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episode 140 — tribebook(s): fianna

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Changeling the Podcast

episode 140 — tribebook(s): fianna

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It’s been a while since we stepped into the old World of Darkness, so today we take a quick look back for one more in our series of crossover book dives. We flipped through both the original and Revised editions of the Fianna tribebooks for Werewolf: the Apocalypse. These are the most fae-adjacent of the

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episode 139 — a grimm dark era

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episode 139 — a grimm dark era

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With apologies for last week’s delay, we are back on track with today’s readthrough of the last Changeling-focused Dark Era in the first collection, A Grimm Dark Era. The Dark Eras’ not-quite-second-edition-ness stands out most of all in this offering, and it’s… noteworthy. Set in early 19th-century Germany with the publication of the Grimms’ faerie

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episode 138.5 — of ravens and roses

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Changeling the Podcast

episode 138.5 — of ravens and roses

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To welcome in the Seelie half of the year, behold! a surprise minisode. The original Dark Eras were accompanied by a fiction volume, Tales of the Dark Eras, featuring a number of short stories associated with the modules in the supplement. The entry “Of Ravens and Roses” is set in the 17th-century France of Lily,

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episode 138 — lily, sabre & thorn

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episode 138 — lily, sabre & thorn

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Il était une fois… as we proceed through the historical dives in the first Dark Eras volume, we arrive at the next one for Changeling: the Lost—and the first one that is only for that game, though certainly no one could object if an enterprising Storyteller felt like squeezing in a random Promethean. In this

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episode 137 — dark eras

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episode 137 — dark eras

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Time to hop in the ol’ time machine as we open (at long last) the first Dark Eras book for the Chronicles of Darkness…! These smaller modules cover specific moments and places around the world through history, presented through the lens of one or more gamelines. The first collection, released in 2016, offers 16 of

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