I’m going to keep my talk on this short, because there’s a ton of great content to speak for itself. In Second Edition Changeling: The Lost, the default assumption is that when you make your characters and plan your chronicle, you build your Court. You can use one of our robust examples as well, since … Read more
Greetings, true believers! Last week, we showed you how one builds a dice pool in Sardonyx and how one generates and stores Momentum. This week’s update is courtesy of Lauren Roy and Danielle Harper: Attributes and Skills, the nuts and bolts of those dice pools. Again, go easy on us – it’s feature complete, but still … Read more
Attainments! Early in the discussions around a new edition of Awakening‘s ruleset, the team expressed a desire to tidy up some of the exceptions and secondary effects built into the system – things like Sympathetic casting, Aimed Spells, Spell Triggers, Counterspell, Summoning. Anything that was magical, but didn’t strictly speaking follow the magic rules. Some … Read more
So far, some of my favorite stuff about the Second Edition lines has been the appendices for mortal “minor templates”. The ghouls from Vampire 2e, the wolf-blooded from Werewolf 2e, and the Sleepwalkers from 2e add a bunch of fun options to chronicles. I wanted Changeling 2e to be similar in that regard. So, we’re … Read more
Welcome, faithful readers! Bit of a departure from the usual format for Second Edition blogs this week, as we’re firmly into “second drafts are arriving back” phase, and there isn’t really anything to show you that you haven’t already seen in first-draft form, not yet. What we do have, though, is a third draft, for … Read more
Howdy. I wanted to share another bit of World of Darkness: Hurt Locker with you. I’ve also seen a lot of questions about development, and about “red lines”, our development editing notes. So, I figure I’ll knock that out, and kill two birds with one stone. The Draft This draft is the Storytelling section of … Read more
We all need mirrors. The Awakened are strange, maddening people to be around. Imagine the most insular subculture you’ve ever come across, where the members have their own bizarre rituals, jargon, and shared references, then multiply it by a thousand. Then curse almost everyone else to be driven mad by exposure to that subculture even … Read more
The third in my series of rapid-fire teasing Seemings, The Fairest. By now, I hope you can see the general feel and format. We’ve already shared Darklings and Beasts; I have the others lined up, they’ll probably go out this coming week. Here’s the draft. The normal rules for my draft sharing apply. Here’s the … Read more
Keeping this update, this teaser, short and simple. Earlier this week, I showed you what a Beast looks like. Now, I want to show you what a Darkling feels like. Here’s the first draft. Same rules as always apply. Here’s the forum thread to talk about it.
Welcome back, faithful readers! Mage: The Awakening Second Edition has spent the last four months being redlined with a fine-toothed comb, and is now back with the authors for a spruce-up before evolving into its final form. As second drafts come back in, I’ll be sharing the topics we didn’t get around to in the … Read more