Changeling: The Lost is a modern fantasy game featuring characters who have been abducted into the realms of Faerie and escaped, having been magically transformed in the process.
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How can I hint to Changeling players that they should use their kenning?
The rulebook begins its description of kenning by suggesting that players can "spot the signs of supernatural phenomena," but then goes on to say pretty clearly that it's not an "always-on" ability:
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Can vows and oaths be mixed in a single Changeling pledge?
Suppose two changelings want to create a pledge. Changeling A has an open vow slot, but Changeling B has no remaining slots for a vow. Can A make a vow for the pledge while B makes an oath for the ...
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Are clauses in Changeling contracts cumulative?
When I created my Changeling: The Lost character, I purchased the individual clauses of my contracts separately. For example, I purchased Darkness • and Darkness •• with three dots of contracts. My ...
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What is the royal protocol, if any, in Changeling: The Lost?
I'm wondering how changelings are supposed to behave toward royalty.
Of course, in real life the behavior of a queen to her subjects (and vice versa) is dependent on the queen, the particular ...
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Rules for gradual transformation from mortal to template in nWoD?
Are there official / good unofficial rules for the new World of Darkness that would support actually and gradually playing through, over the course of a few stories, the transformation of a PC from ...
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How can I GM in Faerie with True Fae PCs?
I'm running a game where the PCs discover that they're actually Fae. Obviously this isn't strictly canonical - Fae in CtL leave fetches in place of children, not their own young - but I'm otherwise ...
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How can I do conversions from OD&D to nWoD?
I'm running a Changeling: the Lost game and I'm going to be running an OD&D (clone) module soon (Death•Frost•Doom) and I was wondering if anyone had tips on converting the crunchy bits to nWoD. ...
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Creating a group plot arc in Changeling: The Lost
I'm very enamored of White Wolf's Changeling: The Lost for a wide variety of reasons. First and foremost, I love the dramatic character hooks the setting provides - just coming up with variations on ...
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Recommendations on how to coach an inexperienced roleplayer in playing Changeling: The Lost
I'm running a Changeling: The Lost game and one of the players is new to role-playing games. Her introduction to role-playing hasn't been helped by the fact that CtL has a very unusual setting. She ...
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What are some example pledges to join a court in Changeling: The Lost?
I scoured the CtL book for examples but couldn't find any. If there are any I'd love a page number. Otherwise, if you have a link to a wiki with them I'd appreciate that as well.
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Does it work to run a Changeling: the Lost game with players who don't know the game from the book?
Ok, so I want to run a Changeling: the Lost game, but I realize that C:tL is a very foreign setting compared to typical D&D or typical SciFi settings. The players are hardly even heroes as they ...
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How do you leave the Hedge?
How do you get out of the Hedge?
To quote the core rule book:
To escape the Hedge, a changeling either
needs to find an active (not necessarily open) gateway, or
find a suitable door, ...
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NWOD : stats for animals and edge-cases for transformations in Changeling
Well, I tried playing with the title to make it as suggestive as "The Beast-buffing", but since this question may have a wider scope let's keep it straight.
As I was saying in the other question, I ...
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How can I buff my Beast?
I'm currently playing an adventure with four other people where we play Changeling The Lost (NWOD). I created a Beast (Runnerswift) which has been so far underwhelming to play. i blame myself for not ...
