Into Arcadia (Changeling)

Member Name: Bryn Pearson

Product:	Changeling
Date:	19/04/01 (110 review reads)
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Advantages: Suitable for younger players

Disadvantages: some of the handbooks aren't so great.

Having run Changeling for a while, I am quite enchanted by it as a system. Its undoubteldy better for those already into things faerie, and its ideal if you want to run White Wolf for younger players. I would recommend that a start up group get between them the main book, and the commoners handbook. I'm ploughing through the UK book which has become a bit tedious, and you can really tell in places that it's written for Americans.
There are several ways of approaching this system - you can have the very light swords and sorcery in the real world option, you can mix reality and fantasy so that you have shades of light and dark, or you can go for a grim struggle against banality with faeries in constant fear of technocrats and dauntain. It mixes really well with Mage, but changelings are far less powerful than all the other creatures.
There's a lot of scope for humour in this system - I had my party (All over 25) hunting down an evil chimerical tellytubbie -which I would recomend as a thing to do!
This is the lighter end of White Wolf, but faerie lore is fantastically rich once you get into t. If you want to read outside the system, "Tam Lin" "Thomas the Rhymer" and any Arthurian legends will give you a feel for it. There are some wonderul fearie myths frm the Britsh Isles, and it is well worth adding these to your knoweldge base before getting into the system.

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