Changeling: The Dreaming

Changeling: The Dreaming

by Ian Lemke, Brian Campbell, Jackie Cassada

The gates to Arcadia, the original paradise, are closed. Only the world of humanity remains. Without any awareness of our true nature, humankind crushes us beneath its banal heel. Joy and laughter are gone; only the Dreaming remains.We are changelings, the forgotten ones, neither fully fae nor wholly mortal. The last of our kind on Earth, we have built ourselves an invisible kingdom. We are everywhere, yet you have never seen us. We hide, not behind some fragile Masquerade, but in plain sight with the power of our Glamour. We exist within a real world of make-believe where "imaginary" things can kill and" "pretend" monsters are real.

The storytelling game of modern fantasy. The Kithain are heirs to Earth's secret kingdom of faerie. And yet they are only part fae; they are forced to adopt mortal guises to survive disbelief in magic. The fae must strive to forestall the coming Winter and bring about an endless Spring lest Banality consume all and the Dreaming be lost.

Changeling Second Edition features a clarified and expanded setting and cosmology, as well as completely new and revised rules. Yet it's fully compatible with first edition and the rest of the Storyteller games. A full-color, hardcover book with art and graphics like you've never seen before.

Genres: Role Playing Games, Gaming, Fantasy, World Of Darkness, Urban Fantasy, Games, Reference

295 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Ian Lemke is a game developer for Green Ronin Publishing and is responsible for The Expanse Roleplaying Game line. He has written for The Expanse line since the core rulebook and has also contributed writing to Blue Rose. Ian has been developing games (both tabletop RPGs and computer games) since 1993. He’s worked as a writer or developer for many companies including White Wolf, FASA, Modiphius, Zenimax Online, and more. He got his start running Vampire LARPs and ran a fantasy LARP for 10 years and loves all things sci fi and fantasy. He lives in the outskirts of Atlanta, GA with his wonderful wife (who secretly gives him a lot of his best ideas), a dog named Shakespeare, a rabbit named Marlowe, and several chickens.

Reviews

[alternBRUNO°° · Rating 3 out of 5]

Don't read it unless you're interested in RPG. The book is essentially a core of rules, an introduction to new players and the general scheme of storytelling and character creation.

[Sergej · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is interesting story, however not much different from first edition.

[Ján Strašifták · Rating 5 out of 5]

Veľmi dobrá kniha s úžasnými kresbami. Zo sveta WOD zatiaľ moja najoblúbenešia. Titul Changeling: The Dreaming poskytne hráčom hrať úplne iný štýl a setting hry ako Vampire: The masquarade. Jedinou nevýhodou ako to u všetkých corebookov býva je jej dĺžka.