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    This document contains multiple passages from different individuals discussing their perspectives on and experiences with the role-playing game Changeling: The Dreaming. The game is described as dealing with dark yet imaginative themes involving the struggle between reality and dreams. It leaves those who play it with a lasting impression and desire to explore the magical and contradictory world presented in the game. Changeling is praised for its versatility in mood and ability to immerse players in a journey of duality between different dreamlike courts.

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    This document contains multiple passages from different individuals discussing their perspectives on and experiences with the role-playing game Changeling: The Dreaming. The game is described as dealing with dark yet imaginative themes involving the struggle between reality and dreams. It leaves those who play it with a lasting impression and desire to explore the magical and contradictory world presented in the game. Changeling is praised for its versatility in mood and ability to immerse players in a journey of duality between different dreamlike courts.

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    Changeling - The Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition 4

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    Changeling to me has always been one of the when I was a child not necessarily being only dreams.

    darkest of games. It gives a happy image — “The World Fairy tales that do contain a little piece of truth after
    of Balloons” as it were. Underneath that fluffy image all. It was like a reunion with a very old friend, almost
    was something different. Think about the dreams you forgotten and still able to touch my inner self. And then
    remember, the ones that don’t dissipate in the morning the multitude of possible moods in only one system:
    light. The ones that stay with you. The frustration, From “happily ever after” over intrigues at the court
    fear, confusion and yes, horror. These dreams also to a dark and hopeless Michael-Ende-like “our world
    make up the world you inhabit. Imagine a world where is dying, for people stopped believing in wonders”,
    the ruling class are actually parasitic souls forced into you could find it in there. For me, Changeling: The
    human form. One where the trappings and structure Dreaming is one of the most versatile systems in the
    of society both support and destroy it. A life that is entire classic World of Darkness.
    full of contradictions, power plays and nightmares. — Wolfgang Fronius
    It’s about slowly losing the war for a part of yourself Giessen, Germany
    and there being nothing you can do to stop it. World of ¶¶¶
    Balloons? Maybe. With half deflated, some completely
    It’s one of those games that leave a mark in a very
    missing and the rest you desperately protect, hoping
    particular way. At first, you are not sure whether you
    they don’t go pop.
    should try it or not, but when you finally play it, it
    — Kat McIvor leaves a lasting flavour in your mouth called “Arcadia”,
    Birmingham, England which only leaves you longing for more. It’s wonder-
    ¶¶¶ ful! It stimulates the convergence between the needs
    A rampant griffin once dared me to open a book to explore and exploit the setting, and the search for
    of beauty. new and diverse ways to imagine everything inside
    It challenged me to find magic in the cracks of that flows amongst Seelie and Unseelie. What dazzles
    our everyday world, to have a sense of wonder in me the most from Changeling is the way it submerges
    an age that enthrones conformity and cynicism. To you into a sideral journey of duality. We’ve been able
    make a stand, screaming at the autumn skies that our
    spark would not be surrendered to banality. It dared
    me to dream.
    Changeling is about dear friends whose imagi-
    nation gave color to the Feathered Serpent. It is the
    Artificer and the Lone Tree, the Childslayer and the
    Nameslave, the Chronicler and the Knight of Hope.
    Shards of a worldwide dreaming, shaped by storytellers
    and players alike.
    Dreams will always be there when we close our
    eyes. Some must never end.
    — Alfredo Garcia Padilla (Wally)
    Teatro de la Mente N.L., Venue Storyteller
    Monterrey, Mexico
    ¶¶¶
    It was on coincidence that I got to know
    Changeling: The Dreaming. For a classic
    World of Darkness crossover event, non-
    vampire PCs were needed and so I
    picked at random one book from all
    possible core rules. It was love at first
    sight: the mosaique-like cover. The
    promise of all those daydreams from

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