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Day Six – Favourite Game I Never Get To Play
Changeling.
I’ve been wanting to play
Changeling since playing in the Awesome World of Darkness Campaign run when I
was at uni. It was the first time I’d come across World of Darkness and –
having grown up with a deep love and respect for British and Irish folk and
fairy tales (and world mythology in general) – Changeling really appealed to
me. But no one at uni wanted to run it because it was too complicated and no
one back home wants to run it because they think it would be played with
fairies who are fluffy and light – and thus boring.
But a large part of why
Changeling appeals to me is that doesn’t seem to be the case. It looks to me
like it’s been designed to deal with the dark/light nature of the fey – the
way that human morals don’t necessarily translate into fey morals.
I’m also interested in the need
to keep the wild places in the world. It was described to me as that you could
be living as part of a travelling carnival (which sounded like a wonderful
setting) but you would really struggle in something like a pathology lab (which
also made me want to play and subvert that – find ways to bring the wild into
science… that might be more of a Deadlands thing, though).
Disclosure: I haven’t actually
managed to get my hands on the rule book yet, so I could be completely
misinterpreting what I’ve been told, but I really, really like the sound of
this game. These days, I’m even half tempted to suck up my fear of GM’ing and
try and run it myself; if nothing else, it would be a lovely excuse to re-read
my various British/Irish myths and legends collections. Although, in honesty, I
rarely need an excuse for that.
With thanks again to Autocratik. His Day 6 is here.
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