Maybe it’s pretty obvious that we do a lot of gaming online nowadays, and that as hosts of a podcasts, we are thorough netizens who have thoughts and feelings about the interwebs. Nevertheless, online games have their own particular dynamics, opportunities, and cultures that we thought it might be good to explore, for people who […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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