Strange to be diving into the season that just (in our Hemisphere, at least) drew to a dramatic close, but nevertheless... Rites of Spring for Changeling: the Lost gets into details of Glamour and the fae's talents therein. The eponymous Court is associated with desire: to create, to change, to explore, to survive, all of which underlies the flourishes of Lost magic. 🌷
Tread most carefully: https://changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/episode-118-rites-of-spring/
With hearts not nearly heavy enough for the Winter Court's bailiwick of sorrow, we open up their associated book for Changeling: the Lost 1e, Winter Masques. The theme at play is diversity, and the text leans into that with a surfeit of character options. New kiths, new Courts, new takes on Seemings and their significance... join us for a semi-anonymous dance through the frost-rimed pages. ❄️
Masques off: https://changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/episode-116-winter-masques/
Art thou afear'd? Be not afear'd... we are exploring the expression of that emotion in Autumn Nightmares, the first supplement for Changeling: the Lost 1e. Renegades, Keepers, fetches, and more abound in this densely-packed tome of antagonists. (Seriously, there are a ton.) Join us to learn and better understand their workings, and thereby fear them less—we hope. 🍂
Creepies and crawlies: https://changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/episode-114-autumn-nightmares/
At last! We're concluding our deep dive of the 1e Lost corebook with two appendices, overall thoughts on the book, and listener questions. It's been a JOURNEY—but our exploration into the Library of the Lost shall continue now and then, as we wend our way through the supplements. We hope this dive has piqued enough of your interest to stick with us... the Hedge, as always, awaits.🍀
Various and sundry: https://changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/episode-112-changeling-the-lost-1e-corebook-part-three/
The work continues! We're getting into the third and fourth mammoth chapters of the CtL 1e corebook this week, from dreamweaving to Hedge-dueling and everything in between. Changeling's systems and storytelling stand it apart from the other nWoD games; this is where those differences really come to light. Here be friends and foes alike, and the many ways to deal with both. 🌲
Follow the trod a bit further: https://changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/episode-111-changeling-the-lost-1e-corebook-part-two/
Here goes something! Today begins our dive into the 1e corebook for Changeling: the Lost, a chomker of a text that will take a trilogy of episodes to get through. But it's a deep well of ideas for any game, so we hope you'll find something to use and appreciate. Stories of abduction and return, Wyrd and Glamour, seemings and kiths, Courts and Contracts... and this is just the first half. 🌵
Peek into the Thorns: https://changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/episode-110-changeling-the-lost-1e-corebook-part-one/
What went on behind the scenes in between Changeling: the Dreaming and Changeling: the Lost? We can't claim to have uncovered ALL the secrets, but today we're digging up at least a few details as we talk with Pete Woodworth about the process of writing and developing from one game to the other. Peek into the Hedge and see what we learned... 🚪
Stories and context abound: https://changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/episode-107-creating-lost-with-pete-woodworth/
We draw ever closer to the Hedge this week as we discuss the intro materials for Changeling: the Lost's first edition. The quickstart rules and demo adventure, the screen and character sheet pad, the fancy dice... all this preliminary stuff set the game's aesthetic and stoked the hype. Looking to dip your toes in? Well, have we got a dank and mysterious kiddie pool for you! 📗
Bits and fragments: https://changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/episode-104-lost-1e-intro-materials/
And now for something completely (well, significantly) different...! Pooka and Fetch join forces to discuss the (new) World of Darkness corebook, 1st edition. Released in 2004, this is the ur-text for Changeling: the Lost, readthroughs of which will be ongoing this Season. If you've never delved into nWoD—or maybe even if you have?—now's your chance to learn a thing or two... 🌃
The horror unfolds stylishly at: https://changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/episode-102-new-world-of-darkness-1e/
Share your top 5 settings, regardless of system:
1) Middle-earth: The classic, although not fully realized at the table until #TOR 1e, although MERPS has cool extensions to the geography
2) #Glorantha: A fully realized mythic world in many ways. I don't always love it but it rolls up so many loves.
3) #theExpanse: Perfect example of hard(ish) sci-fi roleplay
4) #Eberron: Aetherpunk pulpy goodness
5) New World of Darkness: #nWoD is the best urban fantasy/horror sandboxes
Do you have any odd or interesting ideas for campaigns that you'd like to play in or run?
I've got an idea for a #Vampire game set in the American old west. I've thought about calling it Undeadlands or Undeadwood.
I'd either have to use the Werewolf old west setting, find a book for #NWOD or pull it together using #GURPS. Pretty easy with the #VampireTheMasquerade, GURPS Western, and maybe GURPS #Deadlands books.
#RPGaDay23 (19) Favorite published adventure. Manitou Springs for Werewolf: Forsaken #nWoD Intra campaign in five part.
Perfect intro to all themes of the game, easily expandable. If you want to see how to teach a game through an adventure this is the thing.
It's free on drivethru with premade characters. #RpgADay2023 #ttrpg
New on the Blog
Seagull and the Socio-Political Implications of a Consensual World. (Awakening to Ascension pt 11)
How basically even gravity is a social construct for mages...
#ttrpg #mage #fantasy #WoD #NWoD #MageTheAscension #MageThe Awakening
@SatyrB
@tomdowd
@bbridges
https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/blog/seagull-and-the-socio-political-implications-of-a-consensual-world-awakening-to-ascension-pt-11
On the Blog Today:
Time and Prophecy, a different look at prophecy for Mage: the Awakening and Mage: the Ascension, but applicable to any #ttrpg with advanced magic.
#Mage #fantasy #urbanfantasy #MageTheAscension #MageTheAwakening
#WoD #NWoD #ChroniclesOfDarkness #horror
https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/blog/time-and-prophecy
@SatyrB @tomdowd
@bbridges
Did #NWoD and #ChroniclesOfDarkness fans see my rendition of Rasputin as a vampire last week?
No? Look now, oh Kindred. #vampire #WoD #vampires #vamily
https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/chronicles-of-darkness/wod-wednesday-rasputin-vampire-the-requiem
Today's #Mage article is definitely a work in progress (#WIPWednesday), and I could use some feedback.
I posit some possible strong and weak arcana for the old Ascension factions in the Awakening system, and a tiny explanation of why for each one.
#ttrpg #NWoD #WoD #MageTheAscension #MageTheAwakening
@SatyrB
https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/blog/strong-and-weak-spheresarcana-in-the-mage-the-awakening-system-for-the-nine-traditions-the-technocratic-union-and-the-disparates
Yet another bloodline of women for International Women's Day and #WoD Wednesday!
Vampire the Requiem Bloodline: Lamia, the Serpents
#ttrpg #NWoD #ChroniclesOfDarkness
https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/chronicles-of-darkness/vampire-the-requiem-bloodline-lamia-the-serpents
This bloodline of mystically powerful women predates the rebranding of Masquerade's Hecata by several years. Meet the Necromantic Hecatae for #VampireTheRequiem on International Women's Day!
#ttrpg #NWoD #ChroniclesOfDarkness
https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/chronicles-of-darkness/vampire-the-requiem-bloodline-hecatae-the-witches
New on the Blog:
Awakening to Ascension pt1
a Treatise on the Nature of Reality, concerning the Council of Traditions and the Diamond Orders.
"Everything is true. Nothing is forbidden."
#magetheascenscion
#magetheawakening
#ttrpg #WoD #NWoD #ChroniclesOfDarkness
https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/blog/a-treatise-on-the-nature-of-reality-concerning-the-council-of-traditions-and-the-diamond-orders
#WoD Wednesday: The Ghul (Changeling the Lost)
The ghul was a cannibalistic, shapeshifting jinn, in Arab myth, possibly developing from the much earlier gallu demons of Mesopotamia. (repost)
#ttrpg #ChroniclesOfDarkness #ghul #ghoul #horror #NWoD
https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/chronicles-of-darkness/wod-wednesday-the-ghul-changeling-the-lost
