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Summary: OUTSTANDING
Review: This book is, without a doubt, the end-all, come-all reference book for White Wolf's Changeling: The Dreaming. It cleverly weaves a tale of glory and of magic, of splendor and of wonder, of revelry and joy, and a million other things that should exist but don't. If you want to play the game, this book is the only one you really need.
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Summary: A "Dreaming" come true.
Review: This game, perhaps more so than any in the storyteller line, is fun to play. My players love it and want more. It is lighter than the other books (your not undead for starters) and can be taken in any direction desired, no mater how outlandish. A few problems though. The rules can be confusing and unclear at times. Also crosovers are particularly hard to run.
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Summary: The best White-wolf game!
Review: This is one of the best RPGs I ever played. It's based on the same system as Vampire, Werewolf, Trinity and other white-wolf games. One of the things that make this such a good game is that point of the game is to have fun.
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Summary: Best game in the World of Darkness - and needs so much WORK
Review: This is the best concept of the five games in the series. Even before the game actually arrived, I knew that I would set a campaign in the Haight district of San Francisco, and so did White Wolf. From there, however, we diverged completely...As is common, the system is bland. Not bad, just bland. I have little use for faeries with uzis -- if one thing is just BRIMMING with Banality, it is guns. Followed swiftly by computers, automobiles, cd-players, etc. The new version of the Seelie and Unseelie courts is unforgiveable. Hundreds of years of tradiation are, as is common with White Wolf, thrown out in favour of an odd combination of political correctness and ultra-teen-angst. Trolls as good guys? And just where did they come up with this interpretation of the sluagh? As a student of faery, I am offended -- read your Nancy Arrowroot and Katherine Briggs, guys! The idea of the cantrips is amusing and quite workable; the notion of Banality versus Madness takes more work. Given the image of mundane reality presented in these books, I wonder if humans aren't just some version of the concept of Maya -- the illusion of the world. Are humans who are taken to Arcadia (a concept mentioned in the books) able to slowly understand their human side and able to ignore magic and Glamour? Or are humans just innately UNreal? The biggest problem with this whole series of games is that they want to be taken seriously on a philosophical level, but their views are so inconsistent and contradictory that I just have to scream out loud. My suggestion? Have your players choose one Court -- Seelie or Unseelie. Divide the kith appropriately, adding more kith if necessary for player choices. Bring back the balance/war between the Courts. Then try to run the game in the modern world. For my players (some of whom had played in "straight" versions of Changeling prior to my campaign) this created a much more satisfactory vision of the world.
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Summary: Stranger then most
Review: Though I've played and storytold Vampier, Werewolf and Mage, I am a whole hearted Changeling fan. The world has such a depth and a lack of restrictions on what can happen opens up such a world of choices it's invigerateing and interesting. While Changelings are some of teh weakest character in the World Of Darkness, they are also a very interesting group. Playing and storytelling Changeling is not as easy as some of the other games, but when you learn it, and understnad it, it becomes a wonderful and amazing game.
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Summary: A Great Game, but not for everyone.
Review: What can I say, I really love this game. The setting is execlent, and it's (gasp) a semi-positive game out of White Wolf. The problem is this game is really not for everybody. My girlfriend hates the game saying it is a game of "Let's Play Pretend, that we are Playing Pretend." Which is an accurate description of the game in a negitive view point. I just like it because I like fantasy, but am really sick of the AD&D version of fantasy, and was looking for something different. So if you like different give the game a try, but trust me, it is not for everybody.
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Summary: A game for NOT everyone...
Review: What do you expect from an RPG? Fun? yes, of course. Heroism, maybe? Hack&Slash, No. But this game doesn't include any of these. There is a stupidiest game idea that I've ever seen : you are a fairy... oh, how nice. and everybody sees you like a human but just faries sees each other in real faces. here is White Wolf's worst Game. I wish I had my money back!
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Summary: Shattered are the Dreams of mankind
Review: When we first lived in the wide lands of the World, and men and beast alike dreamt of what had been, and what would come, and the masters ruled in justice all, the Dreaming was alive and fluid, and the Glamour was plenty. But then came the time when men became many, and they forsook their dreams, and we perished. Those of us that were left here are in the book, and long are our lives, and even longer our stories. May the day come that men dream again, and we shall walk the ancient trods once more. May the gates to Arcadia open once again, and we shall live in peace.
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Summary: Changeling is all about possiblities...
Review: White Wolf's Changeling: The Dreaming is a game all about possiblities... To many who have played Vampire or Werewolf, it will seem different. Perhaps, having become so obsessed with blood and darkness it may seem frivilious... and it can be. It can also be darker and more touching than any of the other Word of Darkness games, because it deals with a loss all the more immediate to most people.. the loss of wonder, of spirit, and of creativity. The dulling of the soul. Changeling is by far the most versitile and enjoyable of the white wolf games, and I encourage those people who may have looked at it and dismissed it because it was about "faeries" to take another look at this breathtaking game, because its about so much more than little winged sprites.
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Summary: 5 stars from a french roleplayer
Review: Yes, we also play changeling in France. And although the first edition has been translated a few years ago, we prefer this one. Changeling is a great game. I love the seelie/unseelie division which is not a manichean good/bad division. I love the way faeries are somewhat alien to this world and nevertheless part of it. I love the fight against banality : it's the fight of my life!!
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