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Detecting Fetches
One of the major PCs in my Changeling game is a budding Jack Ketch (which means he hunts fetches for changelings who want to take their lives back but don’t have the heart to kill their doppelgangers). Generally speaking, Jack requires the “original,” the changeling, to make a pledge for the assassination. This helps Jack ensure that the target ( Read more... ) -
Kismet's Kith Revamp, Part I
What A Kith Is: A Brief Overview
A changeling’s seeming1 is an extensive physical response to a magical environment or the manipulations a True Fae. Sometimes a Keeper will mold a captive directly; other times, being exposed to a Keeper over time will cause the captive to take on traits that the Fae possesses or desires. For some changelings, ( Read more... ) -
Kismet's Kith Revamp, Part II
Kith Magic: Blessings
A kith’s magic can manifest as kith Blessings. If you choose to use this system, each changeling starts with one free Blessing. The others must be purchased separately for the same price as a one-dot Contract. Unless otherwise stated, a kith Blessing does not require a roll but does require one point of Glamour to be ( Read more... ) -
Kismet's Kith Revamp, Part III
Kith Magic: Sway
A kith blessing can manifest in the Sway that a changeling has over her surroundings. In Arcadia, she was imbued with an ability to affect her environment in small ways to help her complete tasks faster and better. A changeling's kith gives her supernatural Sway over one aspect for every other dot of Wyrd she possesses (to a ( Read more... ) -
Drugs in the World of Darkness
A while back, I started looking for rules about drugs in the World of Darkness while working on another project. I knew about the brief overview in the core book and had remembered a little bit about drugs in old WoD products, but what I found in any case seemed underdone. I went searching for more online only to discover some old message board ( Read more... ) -
Goblin Contract Tweak
Not long ago, my partner in crime Nate was in the swimming pool with me discussing adjustments we'd like to make to our games. And it turned out that we'd both noticed the same thing about Goblin Contracts - no one in our group has bought them, used them, or expressed anything but dismay with them. Some NPCs have had a few, but only a few, with ( Read more... ) -
The Mythwardens - A Changeling: the Lost Entitlement
It's not Disneyfication. It's insuranceThey censor school libraries, pressure television networks, and protest loudly outside feature films that portray the worst nightmares of humankind. They even make certain works of art disappear before they're ever shown and use blackmail, dreaming, and pledges to make sure they're never recreated. All the ( Read more... ) -
What We Can Learn From Metaplots
Recently - not for the first time or the last - I ran into an article praising the new World of Darkness for being metaplot-free and enabling roleplayers to create their own universes without being burdened by any larger vision of what the WoD is or must be. And once again I was flooded with thoughts that I didn't have time to properly address, so ( Read more... ) -
WTF, W:tF?
I think I have to admit it firmly: I like the updated mechanics in Werewolf the Forsaken, I think the hosts and ridden are neat antagonists, and I like a lot of the art, but I am disappointed in many other things about the setup of the game. I approached the core book wanting to like it because I've come to appreciate so many things about the new ( Read more... ) -
Autumn Court Mantle Retooling
In my first Changeling game, I played an Autumn courtier trying to move up the ranks because knowledge was already his passion, and it was a lucky thing, too, because the benefits of the Autumn Mantle were less than inspiring. We never really fixed it to complete satisfaction and since there's a brand-new Autumn Court member in our new chronicle, ( Read more... )