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Changeling: The Dreaming

Changeling: The Dreaming is a tabletop role-playing game originally published by White Wolf Publishing in July 1995, and is part of the World of Darkness series. Player characters are changelings, fae souls reborn into human bodies, a practice begun by the fae to protect themselves as magic vanished from the world. White Wolf Publishing released a second edition in 1997, and Onyx Path Publishing released a 20th Anniversary Edition in 2017.

Designers

1st edition: Mark Rein·Hagen, Sam Chupp, Ian Lemke, Joshua Gabriel Timbrook
2nd edition: Ian Lemke, Jackie Cassada, Brian Campbell, Richard Dansky, Chris Howard, Angel Leigh McCoy, Neil Mick, Nicky Rea

White Wolf Publishing

  • July 1995 (1st edition)
  • August 7, 1997 (2nd edition)
  • September 13, 2017 (20th Anniversary Edition)

Personal fantasy

Storyteller System

World of Darkness

1-56504-700-1 (1st edition)

The game explores the balance between imagination and practicality, and the struggle of art and beauty against the dark, mysterious "Gothic-Punk" World of Darkness. Changeling draws primarily from Gaelic mythology, particularly stories of the sidhe and Tuatha Dé Danann, but also uses mythology and folklore from various other cultures including Native American nations, Greece, India and Yoruba mythology of Africa.

Death before dishonor: Honor is the most important virtue, the source of all glory.

Love Conquers all: Love lies at the heart of the dreaming. True love transcends all and epitomizes what it means to be Seelie.

Beauty is life: Beauty is a timeless, objective quality that, while it cannot be defined, is always recognized for itself.

Never forget a debt: One gift deserves another. The recipient of a gift is obliged to return the favor.

Boggan - workers and busybodies, , gnomes. The dream of the home, the hearth and the people who tend it.

house fairies

Eshu - African or Indian spirits; travellers, storytellers, adventurers. The dream of foreign and exotic people, places and the freedom of travel.

Nocker - technological beings, like and gremlins. The dream of technological creativity and creation of your dreams, but also the frustration which people feel when their dreams fail to meet up with reality.

dwarves

Pooka - tricksters, shapechangers, animal spirits, . They dream of a carefree and less controlled life, similar to that of animals which the pooka have affinities with.

Púca

Redcap - murderers and , monsters, hobgoblins. Formed from the bottomless hunger which people felt in the depth of winter and the desperation which people felt to fight their hunger.

cannibals

Satyr - lovers and revellers, , Pan. Formed from the deep passions and lusts of mortals.

horned god

Sidhe - the nobility, Lords and Ladies, , the Shining Host. The dream of all that is noble and honourable in leaders, but also the arrogance of many leaders.

elves

Sluagh - keepers of secrets, , shadows. The dream of all creepy-crawly which crawl about in the dark of the night, tap on the windows and can never be seen in the clear light.

bogeymen

Troll - honour-bound warriors, , giants. The dream of the honorable and chivalric warrior.

titans

History[edit]

Changeling: The Dreaming was originally published by White Wolf Publishing in July 1995.[1] A second edition was released on August 7, 1997, premiering at the Gen Con gaming convention in Milwaukee.[2][3] Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition was released on September 13, 2017, by Onyx Path Publishing[4] – a company formed by ex-White Wolf Publishing staff.[5]


A Player's Guide supplement for Changeling: The Dreaming was released in 1996, adding additional abilities, legacies, flaws and merits not included in the base game's rulebook, material relating to the Autumn People which had been left out of the rulebook due to printing errors, and new information on the game world.[6]


Time of Judgment, published in early 2004, included a chapter on the end of the world from a Changeling's perspective, and was the last official published material for the game.


Dark Ages: Fae is a World of Darkness: Dark Ages game with strong links to Changeling.

#23 (Jan. 1996)[10]

Shadis

Dosdediez (Número 8 - Jul 1996)

[11]

Rollespilsmagasinet Fønix (Danish) (Issue 10 - October/November 1995)

[12]

Envoyer (German) (Issue 3 - Jan 1997)

[13]

#3[14]

d8 Magazine

List of Changeling: The Dreaming books

Changeling: The Dreaming 2nd Edition - , ISBN 978-1-56504-716-7

White Wolf Game Studio

Changeling: The Dreaming Players Guide, 2nd Edition - by Phil Brucato, published by White Wolf,  978-1-56504-701-3

ISBN

The Shining Host- Changeling: The Dreaming for Mind's Eye Theatre -

White Wolf Game Studio

White Wolf Publishing, Inc.

White Wolf's Official Changeling: The Dreaming wiki