I’ve been thinking about Changeling recently. I’ve been trying, on and off (unsuccessfully), to get a Dresden Files game going, and I like my Dresden Files to be quite Fey-based. Hell, any regular reader will know that I like a lot of my games to be quite Fey-based. It’s a theme that really does it for me.
If I can’t get a Dresden Files game together, I might look for a changeling game instead. As fans of the World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness already know, there are two different Changeling games. In the World of Darkness, we have The Dreaming, whilst Chronicles of Darkness has The Lost.
Tonally, these games are quite different. In The Dreaming, you are a faerie soul in a human body, trying to preserve your magic and wonder against the cruel mundanity of the real world that conspired to strip away your sparkle. You are fighting to preserve imagination, wonder, and childhood.
The Lost is quite different. You are not a faerie, but you were taken by them. You have escaped, but you are not unchanged. The Faerie took you, used you, hurt you, changed you. You can never truly go home because it’s just not where you belong any more.
I’d be delighted to get a game of either to the table, but I know that they will appeal to different groups. I also know the CtL has the potential to be triggering to people who have had certain adverse experiences in their lives.
With the release of the 5th edition of Vampire: the Masquerade, a new generation of World of Darkness games was signaled. Since then, we have been told that we will be getting a new edition of Werewolf: the Apocalypse, and we’ve had a new edition of Hunter: the Reckoning. We’ve not been told of any new edition of Changeling: the Dreaming on the horizon, but Charlie Cantrell, a writer who worked on the 20th-anniversary edition of CtD has had a bash at putting together his own homebrew edition, C5:
Back in 2019, I read this book and put together a review of the content. I liked the approach taken and was particularly fond of the artwork used. Yeah, it was photo-based like the unsatisfying art from V5, but this was different. It was more whimsical, unsettling, and fantastical. It was just better.
I really enjoyed writing this review, and am happy to be sharing it again today.
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