Welcome back former Arcadians! Today, Victor and Simon discuss Charlie Cantrell's World of Darkness 5th Edition conversion guide for Changeling: the Dreaming. Come down the Trod into Charlie's vision of the Evernight and the changelings who populate its nightmarish future. Thank you for listening! Music LSD by Mon Plaisir To purchase Changeling: the Dreaming as well as a wide array of other role playing texts go to DriveThruRPG.com . Charlie's Conversion Guide can be found here . Come read some ...
Dec 01, 2019•45 min•Ep. 56
Today Victor and Simon gab about a controversial topic: Children in Changeling. Do children belong in a horror game? How do you use children either as storyteller characters or as player characters without falling prey to some of the gross tropes that people lean on? What happens when one of your motley gets busted for truancy? What kind of media has interesting examples of children in Dreaming-like environments? Thank you everyone for listening! The interludes included in this episode are from:...
Nov 14, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 55
We're back, offering up tasty, tasty, opinions about the types of horror we enjoy to play and write for Changeling: the Dreaming. This one is a fairly wide-ranging conversation between Victor and Simon on general points about different types of horror, horror's place in the zeitgeist, and the ways we use for our Changeling stories. We broke the interlude story from this episode out and published it as a stand-alone episode: Beyond the Mists: Thomas' Story . Thank you everyone for listening! We'l...
Aug 14, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 54
Cast Victor Kinzer, Cordie Nelson, Natali Gerany Author Victor Kinzer Producer Simon Eichhornchen Creative Commons Attributions Soft Wind , Hawaii Volcanoes -- Kilauea , Footsteps on Stone Patio , Gamelan Gong A , Kerkambience , Ronda - Bells and Ambience , Quiet Spring Woodland Ambience , DiZi Flute 03 ....
Aug 14, 2019•7 min•Ep. 53
Join us in contemplating the arrival of the Lycians on the Concordian stage. Victor and Simon chat with their creator, Charlie Cantrell, about the Lycians: What they're like, what they care about, and how the rest of chimerical reality feels about them. Special thanks to Charlie for putting aside the time to talk with us! Music LSD by Mon Plaisir To purchase Changeling: the Dreaming as well as a wide array of other role playing texts go to DriveThruRPG.com . To find Charlie's Fragments of the Ly...
Jun 01, 2019•42 min•Ep. 52
The long awaited Changeling: 20th Anniversary Edition Player's Guide has been released on Drivethru RPG. Join Victor and Simon as we go over some of what's in the book and our first impressions of it. Music LSD by Mon Plaisir To purchase Changeling: the Dreaming as well as a wide array of other role playing texts go to DriveThruRPG.com . We have a blog now! Come read some of our more fully developed thoughts about playing and playing with the Changeling: the Dreaming rules and setting at Parting...
May 16, 2019•49 min•Ep. 51
Welcome to the bizarroverse, where Simon publishes a book on the Storyteller Vault and Victor stands in for the readers and their questions. Listen in as we complain about how hard it is to come up with faun art, and Simon goes on tangents about why colonialism is terrible and why the mists needed to be even more punishing than they already are, and Victor introduces our next Storyteller Vault project. Music LSD by Mon Plaisir To purchase Changeling: the Dreaming as well as a wide array of other...
Apr 03, 2019•32 min•Ep. 50
Whew, this one's been sitting in the can for a while! Join Victor and Simon as we discuss the BNS Changeling LARP beta slice which is now available on the Storyteller Vault. We go through some of the new kith splats, arts, and other rules revealed in this release. Music LSD by Mon Plaisir To purchase Changeling: the Dreaming as well as a wide array of other role playing texts go to DriveThruRPG.com . Here is a Storyteller Vault link to the BNS Beta Slice. It's free! We have a blog now! Come read...
Mar 11, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 49
Hello All! We've been off the wires and out of commission for a while. Simon and Victor circled up and are sad to say that we don't have the time or energy to produce 2 episodes a month anymore. So the show as you all knew it is effectively complete. But FEAR NOT! We are still working on a number of projects, and this interview is the first sneak peek at that work. Victor wrote a Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Chronicle Jumpstart for the Storyteller's Vault! If you want to hear what this f...
Feb 04, 2019•23 min•Ep. 48
That time in every Changeling's life has finally come for Simon and Victor. Winter is upon us. We are going on a hiatus until January when we will burst forth with Season 2 of Walking Away from Arcadia. Season 2 will be a bit different, and we share a few details about what we have in mind in this minisode. We also talk a little bit about the Changeling news that's come out of GenCon. This is a brief episode just to make sure everyone is up to speed before we slip off into that good Chimerical D...
Aug 15, 2018•30 min•Ep. 47
Join Victor and Simon today as we discuss Exalted: Graceful Wicked Masques -- how it relates to Changeling: the Dreaming, its strengths as a source of inspiration, its weaknesses in creating something actually playable, and some of the likely real world inspiration that went into the book. Readings How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War by Rose Lemberg, Selected Poems of Saigyo Hoshi, and Family Terrorists by Antoya Nelson. Music LSD by Mon Plaisir, Four by Monplaisir, and Agony of Ec...
Aug 01, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 46
Today we're having a conversation on a requested topic: building characters for Changeling: the Dreaming. Thrill as we immediately get off topic and begin talking about ways to make the character creation process more dynamic and allow for more player and storyteller creativity. Readings The Velveteen Rabbit/How Toys Become Real by Margery Williams The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan Angel Monster Man By Sam J. Miller Music LSD by Mon Plaisir, Tech Toys by Lee Rosevere, My Angel...
Jul 15, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 45
Today on Walking Away from Arcadia, Victor and Simon discuss the strongly-felt-about-by-fans prequel to Changeling: the Dreaming -- Dark Ages: Fae. We discuss the themes DAF and CTD have in common, their places relative to each other in the shard-like timeline of the Shattering, and how we each might (or do) pull from DAF for inspiration in Interregnum games. Readings Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Rumplestiltskin from the Brother’s Grimm Pwyll of Dyved translated by Lady Cha...
Jul 01, 2018•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 44
Join the superlative Sara and Natali the neat as they help Simon and Victor explore the how Changeling: the Dreaming uses, misuses, and makes space for disability. Several splats in CtD are centered around disability and we wanted to get help talking about the ways that Changeling succeeds and fails to authentically interact with the experience of people living with challenges. Readings “Touch” by Kathryn Larlee “OCD” by Neil Hilborn. Music LSD by Mon Plaisir The music from this episode was “LSD...
Jun 15, 2018•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 43
Join Victor, Simon, the legendary Luka Carroll, and the captivating Charlie Cantrell for a discussion of the now available Book of Freeholds and the place they see freeholds fitting into a changeling game. We cover some of the new content they created for Changeling 20th, as well as some of what's coming down the pike for the upcoming players' guide. Readings “Mirror Lights” from “Book of Freeholds” by Onyx Path Publishing “Letter” from “Stardew Valley” by Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone “The Marvelo...
Jun 01, 2018•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 42
Join Victor and Simon for the second part of the one-shots and long chronicles conversation. This episode focuses primarily upon the concerns of planning, running, and playing long form chronicles. Readings “War in Concordia: the Shattered Dream” by Whitewolf Publishing “Dark Ages: Fae” by Whitewolf Publishing “Cardcaptor Sakura” by Clamp Music Fallen Oak by Ben McElroy, Dukduk , and LSD by Mon Plaisir Sound Effects Child screaming, Pine Forest, Goblet Struck, Quiet Town, Ambience in Kitchen, Do...
May 15, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 41
Join Victor and Simon for a conversation about the peculiar troubles and joys of planning, running, and playing one-shot games with Changeling: the Dreaming. We discuss the difference in narrative style, as well as some ways to avoid common pitfalls created by the system and the players. The readings from this conversation were from Though the Mists, Darkly by Simon Eichhornchen and Born to Run by Mercedes Lackey. The music from this episode was LSD by Mon Plaisir. To purchase Changeling: the Dr...
May 01, 2018•39 min•Ep. 40
Join us today as Victor and Simon discuss the Shining Host LARP books; "The Shining Host" and "The Shining Host Player's Guide". What worked, what didn't, what we loved, what we found confusing, and what we might use in our table-top games. The readings in this conversation were from Crazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman by William Butler Yeats, Interlude 2: Lady Fiona’s Curse by Rocio Vega, Kiss of the Fur Queen, by Tomson Highway, The Shining Host by Mind’s Eye Theatre, and A Midsummer Night’s Dr...
Apr 15, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 39
Join us today as Victor discusses the Nunnehi with James High. We go through how parts of them are working well, how some parts could be done better, and the importance of getting writers who can authentically speak to minority experience involved in projects about minority experience. Simon was unavailable due to ill fate. The readings from this conversation were from: A Sacred Place by J. F. High, The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich, and The Alcatraz Proclamation by Indians of All Tribes. Th...
Apr 01, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 38
Join Victor and Simon for another conversation about the new Dreaming LARP. With us today are Lisa and Samuel who attended and help us discuss playing the Changeling alpha slice at Midwinter Gaming in Milwaukee. Simon was unable to attend due to the unSeleighe court being car-hating bastards, but occasionally makes word noises in this episode. The readings from this conversation were from The Tempest and Cymbeline by William Shakespeare The music from this episode was LSD by Mon Plaisir and A Mo...
Mar 15, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 37
