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I've been a long time devotee of White Wolf products since the first publication of Vamp: Masquerade. But I never spent much time tabletopping. LARPs were where I cut my roleplaying teeth... and after spinning around in MMORPG's like City of Heroes and Warcraft, I've found myself missing the dynamic energy of a good group of friends engaging in the supernatural escapism White Wolf serves up piping hot.
So a few weeks back I picked up the new Changeling: The Lost, the revamped take on faeries, and decided to build a tabletop game around it.
And I have to say, this is the book Changeling: The Dreaming should have been. Dark. Haunting. And rich with the old myths and folklore of having your life stolen by the Fair Folk, in the style of Thomas the Rhymer or Tamlin or Ossian.
From White Wolf's site:
The protagonists of this modern fairy tale are the changelings, or as they often call themselves, the Lost. Stolen away from their human lives as children or adults, they spent what seemed like years or even centuries in Faerie, chattel to beautiful but inhuman lords and ladies. Fed on faerie food and drink, they gradually became more fae themselves, their bodies shifting slightly to reflect their roles. Some, however, managed to escape. Holding on to their memories of home, they found their way through the winding thorns of the Hedge, the barrier between the mortal world and time-twisted Faerie.
Their return, however, was all too bittersweet. Some came back twenty years after they'd first vanished, even though it had never seemed that long to them in Faerie. Others who had reached adulthood in Arcadia found that they returned only a few hours after their abduction. And almost all found, horribly enough, that they weren't missed. The Fae had been thorough. Left in the stead of each abducted changeling was a replica, a simulacrum, a thing that looked like him or her — but wasn't. Now, with inhuman strangers living their lives and nowhere to go, the Lost must find their own way in the world that was stolen from them.
Does anyone have any experience GMing this game or any of the games from the New World of Darkness? Would be curious for any anecdotes or complaints or scenarios that worked really well for you. |
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