Being a changeling is like living with psychosis. As a changeling, you see and speak to people that "aren't there," experience realities others would call "delusional," and, if you lean in too hard, become untethered to the "real world" to the degree that you're effectively a non-player in it. Living with psychosis, one has to straddle that line, learn which voices to listen to and which to ignore, recognize what actually is a sign and what is a false positive. It is absolutely possible to get "lost in the sauce," and it's happened to me. I feel that Freeholds are a very serviceable metaphor in that regard. I can see how they can be ill-fitted as a metaphor for a safe space for autists, however.

We need more on inanimae culture. Would inanimae have their own knoble houses?

12:05 not if you're inanimae. No human nature there all fae and element/Mist.

I know you probably won’t see this but the discussion on queerness in relation to this game really hit close to home. Thanks for talking about it and I’ll def be checking out changeling now.

Id love to play a lavender, or juniper inanimae! Id call it a different phyla the panacae being all about healing herbs. Oh or even a light inanimae!

I wanna play inanimae, a hawthorn dryad. And the dolls should have an affinity with prop.

Does anyone like to share their house rules regarding Arts & Realms. I would love to see what people change.

I understand why you'd not like the Sidhe, but each of the leadership splats in the world of darkness arnt exclusively leaders. Homeless and penniless ventrue exist who don't have anything to their name, there are Hermetic Mages who don't have an interest in the political manuverings in the WoD, and I see the Sidhe in the same light. I think both of C20s Sidhe are perfectly fine player Kiths, because even though they are tightcasted as nobility, that doesnt force them to be snarky and up their own keisters. Ventrue (despite the bad rep they have) follow an in clan code that prioritizes them helping their lessers, and if a group of immortal blue blooded vampires can make good, kind and respectful leaders then I see no reason why the Sidhe cant be.

I was super excited for this, but noticed it was the last video posted and was going to cry, I need to know the rest of your analysis! Then I googled it, and you guys are over on podbean? Either way, I found more, yay!🎉

Omg the inclusion of the SDV letter! ❤❤❤

I think the blend of themes that werewolf and changeling both share is the fighting a lost cause. Almost. Werewolves have this war have this need to fight for a dying planet while changelings are kind of fighting against the despair of endless winter, at least some of them are so that I've always felt like was one of the stronger kind of thematics that the two genres shared.

I'm so happy to finally come across folks who get it - Changeling really is the most depressing, or dark, of the WoD lines. Hopefully y'all delve into some of the new systems that came with Changeling 20. But you've got a follow/subscribe from me!

That revision of the Original Cosmology is fantastic. I hate Conflict-driven mythologies. So...The first Death of an Unformed causes the First Permanence, which is basically Material Reality.... That death is so horrifying and/or despairing and/or vexing to the other Unshaped that...what, they circle the Permanence, or crawl onto it or whatever, bringing Consciousness into the "corpse" of the First to Die, aka Life into the Material Universe? I friggin LOVE it.

This managed to go on for over an hour and leaves me with no explanation on what a changeling is and what they do.

So, it occured to me that it'd be pretty rad to have a Fire Inanimae villain who escapes a battle with Countless by stepping into the ignition of a rocket of a space program that they were trying to interfere with, since the rocket flare could serve as an anchor from being fire tied to an event strongly tied to wonder

The volume of white guilt is borderline tangible, we get your in group bias in the negative, holy shit.

Listening to you two talk about how Sidhe work in the USA made me really consider them from the dutch perspective. Since I am dutch, I suppose I'm much less opposed to them inherently because we have been, from the start and in Changeling terms, a commoner country. We were born from common wishes of enterprise and rebellion against taxes and religious intolerance, or at least that is the national narritive opposed to what the USA seems to think it's narrative is. In fact, many Dutch people consider our own royal family as being perfectly fine, hell we even joke about and like them sometimes. So, to me a chronicle in the kingdom of flowers would really be helped by examining that with the Sidhe. Not a story of privilege, which here is not from royalty but mercantile dynasties so would be much more fitted to work with nocker or even boggans, but a story of leadership. Of a hands-off rulership which stands beside the common Kithain instead of above or opposed. Idk if any of this makes sense but it's something I like to think about

I love the comparison between the game's politics and real life politics in your country. As a newcomer to the game who was introduced to it by the 20th anniversary edition, I keep thinking about how a game set in my country would play out and how it would relate to our real life dreams and also politics, and how the sidhe would fit in it. Unfortunately (or not) I don't have access to all of the material and from what I see there is almost nothing official related to my part of the world.

Can't believe such a good podcast has so little views! You deserve way more.

Hi! I listened to this podcast because i recently read DA:Fae, which i like very much. In the video you say that there is no mention of the Fomorians. It's not true, if you read at page 181 it is written that the War of Silver and Iron began because the Summer Court tricked the werewolf into fighting the Winter Court, dubbed "The Fomorians", and they were described as hell spawn who wanted to destroy the world. After they forced the Winter Court to rout, the Werewolf turned on the Summer Court. That is how the war began. I personally really like the fact that the Fomorians (and the Tuatha by osmosis) were just very powerful fae, or just normal fae of the winter and summer courts.

That fire arlarm beep is really annoying. Otherwise great stuff!

I reallly like your guys podcast. It's honestly helping a lot more than most stuff on KZbin because they always start from the base lore and then they're done 😂

Very good stuff

Found out about this Podcast from Mage: The Podcast first episode

Phil is a consent violator and has been known as such in the BDSM community, praising him sickens me

I think the Spriggans and Piskies work in C20 cause its about community. A piskie contributes. It comes in and becomes either what the community needs or is, while Spriggans come in, blend in and steal something away. Spriggans are hobos cause everyone ignores them, so it blends in with a town or city or neighbourhood and then it steals away its future. While a Piskie comes in, blends in, and makes the world better or at least brings in something new

I have to say, I struggled with this book at first. I had a hard time, at first, to fit it in with the rest of Changeling. But as it continued I think it became clearer and clearer, and this episode cleared up any other questions I had. I still have some minor niggles with the systems within (I think the Clades are lacking a Captain Kirk, engineer, and 'alien bruiser' types cause those are standard in sci-fi), but those can be compensated for with base changeling, so it's as close to a perfect supplement as you can get

This episode has made it clear this game should've been set in Europe

Gotta say, I love all of your podcasts. Changeling is such a great game and this definitely helps me as a Chronicler Edit: personally, I always saw Banality as just... Acceptance. Coldly taking what the world gives you. If we all believed in, for example, Irish paganism and were raised on it and didn't go against it that world would be just as banal as one based on science. Banality is when you just... Don't dare to differ, don't dare to step off the trod

Good stuff. You manage to come up with quite a lot of really good ideas how to do crossover stuff with the other settings. I spent most of my World of Darkness time playing VtM and one of my few laments concerning Revised edition is that they pretty much completely abandoned the idea of the Malkavian-Arcadia Connection that was heavily alluded to in the the first Clanbook Malkavian. Yet, even in the Revised Clanbook there remains one curious use of one of their Clan Disciplines. "Deny" (Dementation Level 8) and it reads as follows: _This highly disturbing power offers a very compelling argument that the Malkavians see more of reality than anyone else does. The Malkavian using Deny is able to focus away from a certain object so completely that the object ceases to exist in the Malkavian’s perception. However, the power of Dementation is so strong that for all intents and purposes, the Malkavian is right. The Malkavain may step through a locked door that he “doesn’t see” as if it were an archway; a sword that he refuses to acknowledge will fail to cut him, passing right through his body. _*_Those few elders of other clans who’ve seen this power in action cannot find a suitable explanation for how exactly it works. Perhaps the astral plane is somehow involved, or perhaps elder Lunatics simply function in more than three dimensions - who can say?_*_ There’s certainly no explanation forthcoming from the Malkavians.…_ _(This power cannot be used to “deny” the existence of living creatures, undead or spirits; it works only on inanimate objects)_ Always thought that was kinda interesting.

It was interesting podcast until you inserted your shitty weapons grade poltics and projections into it.

You guys ever think that the real life myths and legends aren't 100% accurate or real in the world of darkness lore? Also... is there anything you DON'T think is problematic?

Love your channel. No one else is doing this.

I have my players helping Seif find David. The book has so much info to play an amazing story and I love it. I have another group of players that I am having play immortal eyes. Love CTD. VTM players love saying how CTD is fluffy and I just laugh at them with how dark CTD can really be.

Thanks for stickin' up for the Etherites. They've totally got a Steam Punk, H.G. Wells & Jules Verne kinda vibe. How can that be banal, even if they're technomancers?

"I had nightmares, but they were the best nightmares I've ever had"

Have I told you guys how much I love this show?

Mage the Podcast sent me. I love changeling and feel like you guys are doing a great job.

I was looking for session 1!

I surmise that a Mage could manipulate Glamour with maybe Mind 3+/Prime 3+ (possibly some Life or Matter in there too.

I'm just about to start a C20 game & I too was kinda miffed that Autumn Sidhe were only of 2 Houses, esp. since all my WoD games are set in the Victorian Era which is almost a Century before the Resurgence.

I really enjoy your videos/podcast. Please continue your great work! :)

I loveyour content! Keeps helping me better understand changelling to use in my WoD campaign! <3

I am now getting into Changeling and I'm glad I found this podcast Really great work, thank you for posting:)

The book itself is beautiful! Very well done. Sadly, it's just a carbon copy of V5 with "blood to wyrd" switch. So the most impressive feature of V5 is mechanics backing the theme. While in this C5 the original theme of lost wonder seems to be gone. Nice art though

This episode is a favorite of mine.

I find it endlessly ironic that players of the other games like vampire/werewolf dismiss Changeling as silly because it looks that way on the surface, similar to how a vmpire or werewolf looks normal on the surface...

It would be very interesting to hear your impressions about the hsien and how they might be made more satisfying to tell stories about.

You guys are way too woke and banal.

get bent.