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Changeling: the Lost

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 793
EAN: 9781588465276
ISBN: 1588465276
Label: White Wolf Publishing
Manufacturer: White Wolf Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 16, 2007
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
Studio: White Wolf Publishing




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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
"The latest addition to the World of Darkness. Taken from your home, transformed by the power of Faerie, kept as the Others' slave or pet - but you never forgot where you came from. Now you have found your way back through the Thorns, to a home that is no longer yours. You are Lost. Find yourself."



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Hard to Be a Changeling
Changeling: the Lost is a marvellous RPG game, brimming with ideas and atmosphere which is, in accord with the authorial intention, bittersweet. The Lost really ARE a Storytelling game of beautiful madness.
However, there is a catch. The authors have had such an amount of ideas that it is very, very, VERY difficult to put them together without loosing this beautifully insane, bittersweet melancholy. In fact, it's so difficult that the authors themselves failed in this and presented their awful Miami setting which is anything but beautiful, or bittersweet, or even insane. Imagine rather simplistic punks on a fairy-tale party. That's Miami. In a sense it is a bastard version of the Requiem. A withered, old hag with a 9mm gun in her handbag? Don't make me laugh. But it's something you can easily slip into without even knowing how. And this would be a pity. Really. Because the Lost are one of the most beautiful and breathtaking things the White Wolf have ever done. Different from the ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Finally, a way to play a childhood nightmare
I loved this booK! Sure, it was a bit grim, and it wasn't for anybody, but it was put together in an extraordinarily versatile way. It allowed you to be literally anybody, and anything, you could imagine, unlike a few RPG's I could name *Vampire: The Requiem*. The Seeming/Kith mechanic is superbly adaptable, covering almost any faerie type that you could find in any book. If you can't, there's always Winter Masques, but I don't know about that yet. The Contracts system gave it an Faustian light that emphasized the idea that everything comes at a price in this strange little world. The only problem with pledges is that they don't make any immediate sense until you suddenly figure it out. Of course, it has a way to blend any kind of story you want into something playable and fun.
I would have ranked it higher, but the rating system wouldn't allow it.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Twisted. Perhaps broken.
This is not a game about fairies.

This is a game about people who have been pulled into faerie, changed, and escaped. Sadly, the prcess has changed them into something that is not quite human any more.

Comparing it to Changeling: the Dreaming is a lot like comparing the most recent Batman movies to the earlier ones. There's still the scope for melodrama and cool SFX, but there seems to be more focus on character depth.

Also, proper fae are now alien and ultimately unknowable, their world one of constant peril to unwary mortals, which is as it should be.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Typos Ain't So Bad
This is the first White Wolf product to actually entice me into the World of Darkness. Accomplishing that was done by making the setting truer to the myths of changelings.

If you're like me, and like to get a basic understanding of the whole book before you attempt to run or play, be warned: it's long, and it's heavy; armchair reading it ain't. Knowing that it was part of limited run series, I understand White Wolf had to cram a lot of information into only a few books.

Although I understand why role playing books do it, I don't like seeing things I already understood re-explained ad infinitum. The largest problem with this book is that certain words are missing from sentences, and in one case, the whole first part of a paragraph is missing. Sure, I can tell what is intended, but it's more distracting than simple typos.

Overall, a good buy, maybe they just need a better editor?



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Grim Fairy Tales
The second in White Wolf's limited run RPGs for their World of Darkness gameline, Changeling takes you into the world of the fae. Not your white-washed Victorian fairy tales for children, but the darker stories of trolls that lurk under bridges looking for mortal flesh, goblins who kidnap children, and dark things hiding under beds; creatures born of nightmare and madness. Like I said before kids, its the World of DARKNESS. It's all about Gothic horror!

Whereas in it's predecessor, of sorts, 'Changeling: the Dreaming' you took on the role of a human with a fairy soul, Changeling: the Lost goes back to the original folklore. This time around, you take on the role of a human who was kidnapped and abused by the Lords of the Fae, warped by the very nature of Arcadia, yet somehow, through sheer force of will, escaped and made your way back through the Hedge to find your old life gone. Changeling is a very intense game, but thats part of what makes it so appealing. If thats not up ... Read More




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