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episode 81 — anthology of dreams & cup of dreams

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episode 81 — anthology of dreams & cup of dreams
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We’ve spoken before about what novels and short stories bring to the World of Darkness. At best, they can provide a naturalistic feel for a lived-in world that players and Storytellers can explore; at worst, they confuse the reader and muddle the rules of the setting. There aren’t nearly as many items in the data […]

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episode 80 — c20 writer/dev roundtable

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episode 80 — c20 writer/dev roundtable
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As much as we enjoy flipping through pages and making sweeping claims about Changeling, we have never (alas) been directly involved in the production of the official game line. So for this roundtable, we invited some guests with insider knowledge: four of the writers and developers involved with the 20th Anniversary Edition. We obviously couldn’t

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episode 79 — exalted: the fair folk

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episode 79 — exalted: the fair folk
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When we covered Dark Ages: Fae, we mentioned that it was the one canonical historical setting kind of for Changeling. That’s not entirely true, because in the earliest days of the Exalted line, its world was lightly framed as the “prehistory” of the World of Darkness. While that aspect fell out of the setting pretty

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episode 78 — changeling: the lost discussion

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episode 78 — changeling: the lost discussion
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Don’t worry, we’re not totally casting off our roots quite yet. While Changeling: the Dreaming was in deep freeze, the mantle of “modern personal horror fae game” was taken up by Changeling: the Lost, a rather different entry in the (new) World/Chronicles of Darkness. At a glance, Lost shares a lot of terms and concepts

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episode 77 — old kithbook: boggans

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episode 77 — old kithbook: boggans
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As we alluded to in our minisode about the unreleased Book of Glamour and Keys to the Kingdom, there was one more title done dirty by the unceremonious end of Changeling’s 2nd edition. The long-lamented Kithbook: Boggans was on the putative release schedule (and available for pre-order) until long after the line’s conclusion. When it

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episode 76 — neurodiversity and ableism

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episode 76 — neurodiversity and ableism
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We’re tackling a slightly heavy subject today, talking about neurodiversity and ableism in the context of Changeling: the Dreaming. There are numerous ways in which these arise allegorically and literally in the pages of the game. We cover a few broad topics, but really we’re just scratching the surface here, framing our interpretations of the

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episode 75.5 — darkening sky

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episode 75.5 — darkening sky
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We’re informed in Dark Ages: Fae that “the Oath-Truce falls with the darkening sky”… but it took another decade for the creators of the line to fulfill that promise. In this solo minisode, Pooka talks a bit about the eponymous supplement, Darkening Sky, released at last in 2014. This coda to the Revised line provides

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episode 75 — dark ages: fae

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episode 75 — dark ages: fae
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And now for something completely different…! We’re diving into one of the last books for the old World of Darkness this week—and we do mean OLD, for the book in question is Dark Ages: Fae. Technically a spin-off of Dark Ages: Vampire, and one of the standalone corebooks in the Dark Ages line, this is

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episode 74.5 — lost texts: book of glamour and keys to the kingdom

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episode 74.5 — lost texts: book of glamour and keys to the kingdom
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Behold the minisode! Today we’re diving into the Library of What Could Have Been, as we talk about two books that we never actually got for Changeling: Book of Glamour and Keys to the Kingdom. Long-promised, partly written, and much desired, the complete guide to fae magic and the globetrotting metaplot adventures lingered in the

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episode 74 — fae and morality

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episode 74 — fae and morality
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Another week, another theme episode…! This time around, we’re considering the role of morality in Changeling: the Dreaming, and the World of Darkness at large. Folklorically, the fae have always tended to dance to their own tune (and often drag hapless mortals along with them) when it comes to questions of right and wrong, good

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