Questions tagged [changeling-the-lost]
For questions about Changeling: The Lost, a modern fantasy game by White Wolf Publishing that features characters who have been abducted into the realms of Faerie and escaped, having been magically transformed in the process.
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Can Begotten do hedgespinning and oneiromancy?
One player in our CtL campaign generated a Beast from Beast: the Primordial. As soon as we started going into Hedge and breaking into other people's dreams, it turned out they don't know what to do ...
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What happens if a Helldiver fails their roll?
Changeling: the Lost book states that Helldivers can dive, becoming immaterial and being able to interact with ghosts. To do that, they need to roll dexterity + occult. What happens if they fail this ...
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Why don't changelings reveal themselves?
I am preparing to run my first Changeling: The Lost game, and I just read over the rule book. One thing I don't understand is why the mortals don't know about the Changelings.
Vampires have strong ...
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Does a Huntsman only exist for the span of a single dream?
In Changeling the Lost: Second Edition, it is said that a Huntsman's heart resides within a Bastion. It even specifies that
the heart can found within
the tempestuous mortal Bastion (p. 264)
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Does merging with your fetch give you a merit?
In the 1d4chan summary of Changeling: The Lost, there is a line that says:
...Or, you can do the "hard but moral" thing and try to merge with it, (since, you know, it's you), which gives you even ...
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How do I spend my 6 XP in Changeling the Lost?
I am new to Chronicles of Darkness, and I have been enjoying my 2 sessions with changeling the lost but now I have come to a dilemma. I have 6 xp to spend, but when I look at pg 77, I don't understand ...
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Are fae ephemeral and or supernal entities in Mage 2E?
Fae are mentioned in the section on ephemeral entities in the new Chronicles of Darkness book Mage: the Awakening.
Bans & Banes
All ephemeral and Supernal entities suffer from a mystical ...
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Does a new gateway into the Hedge always have a path?
A lot of stress is placed on the importance of staying on the path in the Hedge.
But on the other hand, you can open up a gateway from basically anywhere (certainly anywhere you can get a car to; ...
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In Changeling, does Armor of the Elements' Fury stack with multiple elements?
So, in Changeling: The Lost, the Contract of Elements allows you to take additional elements at half-cost. Cool enough, this helps hit some builds that might not otherwise be feasible (for instance, ...
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What happens to a changeling who (accidentally) drinks some blood of a True Fae?
I play in a World of Darkness: Changeling the Lost game and recently we had a True Fae try to come through. We found it in the hedge and destroyed it; my character struck the killing blow. Now how she ...
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Contracts for changing someone else into a creature?
Are there any contracts that allow you to temporarily change another person into a creature, like a bird or dog?
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Which book describes the origins of the Fae?
I've been told that in one of the Changeling: The Lost expansion books it describes a possible origin of the Fae as actually having been changelings themselves, that lost too much clarity. Which book ...
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How can I portray the Spring Court as more than a lust-crazed rabble?
The Spring Court in Changeling: the Lost is part of the Seasonal Court system, as described in the core rulebook. Their driving emotion is Desire, ranging from gluttony to greed to adrenaline junkies ...
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GMing a combined-groups session
I'm GMing 2 tabletop Changeling campaigns at the moment. One of them takes place in Cambridge, while the other takes place in Inverness. As my birthday approaches, my players asked me to GM a session ...
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Is there any way to tell if a changeling is using Skinmask?
Skinmask (Contracts of Mirror ••) alters the appearance of a changeling. Supposing a changeling uses the catch to alter her entire body, and given that the contract "affects both Mask and fae mien" ...
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Are there ways to avoid a token's drawback?
In Changeling: The Lost, tokens have costs that must be paid on each use ("drawbacks"). The core book says that these drawbacks will always be present:
Every token comes with a drawback, a small ...
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Is this fix to the Autumn Mantle roughly equivalent to the other Seasonal mantles?
My group and I firmly consider the Autumn Court's Mantle (see Changeling: the Lost) to be both sub-par and insulting in its mechanical implementation, especially considering that Autumn, as the Court ...
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Can Fleeting Spring 5 force a changeling to break her Motley Pledge?
A successful invocation of a Contract of Fleeting Spring (•••••) (aka. Waking the Inner Faerie) means
the target feels the immediate impulse to try to achieve one of his greatest desires. He
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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 ...
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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 gradually playing through, over the course of a few stories, the transformation of a PC from mortal to a ...
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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
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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 ...
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