Changeling the Podcast is a weekly exploration of the roleplaying game Changeling the Dreaming. Episodes range from readthroughs of books, to interviews with pe...
Welcome to 2025, changelings and changelants! We said that Winterregnum was going to be our hibernation season... but truth be told, there are too many things to do and not enough time to do them, so yes, we're going to continue to put some content out for the coming weeks. The Season proper will launch in February as usual. Whether the episode numbering will tick up to 101 in this intercalary period remains to be seen, but for this week, at least, we'll keep with the convention for giving fractional numbers to minisodes. This time around, Pooka has a chat with Bloodied Porcelain about Hallowed Haven Studios about their upcoming Changeling: the Dreaming actual play, "District of Dreams"! The first live episode will launch on Friday the 10th, so we hope you'll be able to tune in... but if not, audio recordings will be available thereafter on their website and on podcast platforms near you.
For more information and other ancillary material—teasers, prologues, etc.—check out the various HHS places around the interwebs:
Website: https://hallowedhavenstudios.com/
District of Dreams home page: https://hallowedhavenstudios.com/district-of-dreams/
Hallowed Haven on Twitch (for watching live): https://twitch.tv/hallowedhavenstudios
Hallowed Haven on YouTube (for post-viewing): https://www.youtube.com/@hallowedhavenstudios
Hallowed Haven on Discord (for community chatting): https://discord.gg/hallowedhaven
Their Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hallowedhavenstudios
And our own interweb scramblings can be found at:
Discord: https://discord.me/ctp
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082973960699
Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@ChangelingPod
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChangelingThePodcast
your host
Pooka G (any pronoun/they) lived in DC for a while, but had to go to Virginia just to find green hair dye, because DC was that kind of town.
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
—Abbie Hoffman
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episode 100.3 — state of the podcast, winterregnum 24–25
Woo-hah! We got here at last. Yule is upon us and it's time for another State of the Podcast before we enter our Winterregnum period. As stated before, there will likely be a bit of content here and there through the coming weeks, but—with one or two possible exceptions—no full episodes until some point in February. And when we come rocketing back at that point, well, we have a thing or three in store for you. In this bit of bonus content, we're talking about statistics from the Season, plans for the next one, little life updates, and whatever else crossed our brains on a chilly weekday night.
Although we won't be releasing much to the winter airwaves, you are still welcome to get in touch with us through the usual socials below! The conversation rolls on, and if you don't want to miss what's happening, our freeholds are always welcome to you:
Discord: https://discord.me/ctp
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082973960699
Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@ChangelingPod
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChangelingThePodcast
your hosts
Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) has set up the nocker sugar shack what makes the Glamour syrups and chimerical caramels.
Pooka G (any pronoun/they) offers heady sacrifice to the gods in eager anticipation of First Snow...!
Et quand viendra l'hiver aux neiges monotones,
Je fermerai partout portières et volets
Pour bâtir dans la nuit mes féeriques palais.
(And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass,
I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight,
And build me stately palaces by candlelight.)
—Charles Baudelaire, "Paysage" (tr. George Dillon)
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episode 100.2 — shadownessence with chris bern
Like any grumps, we often ruminate on the past and what it has (and hasn't) brought us. After the closing of the old White Wolf forums post-Time of Judgment, those in search of community found our way to various places on the internet, one of the most noteworthy of which for the two of us was Shadow'n'Essence, a message board forum with extensive space for each of the WoD lines (and more!) in the 2000s. You may have heard us wax poetic about it in our online games episode a couple weeks ago. The vibrant atmosphere and creative energy among the Changeling fans in particular is something still fondly remembered, and sometimes people turn up years later to talk about it—like Chris Bern (aka Swordsman), former coordinator (aka Vilicus) of the Changeling section of the site, who joins us for this minisode walk down memory lane. Tune in to hear us talk about things as they once were, and if you were on SnE, we'd be delighted to hear from you...!
Chris' repository of Changeling bits from the days of yore can be found at: https://theshepherdsfreehold.wordpress.com/. And as for us, it's the usual mishmash of places:
Discord: https://discord.me/ctp
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082973960699
Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@ChangelingPod
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChangelingThePodcast
your hosts
Josh Hillerup (zenten) absconded with a Glamour slushie machine and the gods of internet past can't have it back.
Pooka G (AlecRavager) will use however many Chronos Unleashings it takes to stir the slumbering PHPbeast.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min'?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' auld lang syne?
—traditional, adapted by Robert Burns
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episode 100.1 — pax unplugged 2024 expo
Once again, it happened...! Pooka is in attendance at PAX Unplugged this weekend, and spent Friday afternoon rushing around doing on-the-spot interviews with creators whose work is somewhat Changeling-aligned. Herein are five short interviews about games that touch on the fae, dreams, imagination, and more. The sound quality in this minisode is particularly awful, which is what happens when you're doing interviews in a giant hall filled with 10,000 people, but at least everybody was as lovely and informative as they could be on a frantic day. Hopefully these will inspire you to seek out new and interesting games to expand your horizons, and if you happen to be at the convention, check out the booths in questions!
The various creators and their web presences:
Imagining Games (publisher of Broken Tales): https://www.imagininggames.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/imagining_games/
World Champ Games by Adam Vass (publisher of Babes in the Wood and Ever Dream This Man?): https://www.worldchamp.io/
Osprey Games (publisher of Through the Hedgerow and The Terror Beneath): https://www.ospreypublishing.com/us/osprey-games/
NerdBurger Games by Craig Campbell (publisher of Good Strong Hands): https://www.nerdburgergames.com/
Rown, Rook & Decard (publisher of DIE, Spire, and Royal Blood): https://rowanrookanddecard.com
As for ourselves...
Discord: https://discord.me/ctp
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082973960699
Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@ChangelingPod
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChangelingThePodcast
your host
Pooka G (any pronoun/they) has no voice today, and must game. (Credit to Mike from Darker Days Radio for this too-true line.)
The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
—Daniel Day-Lewis
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episode 100 — online games
Maybe it's pretty obvious that we do a lot of gaming online nowadays, and that as hosts of a podcasts, we are thorough netizens who have thoughts and feelings about the interwebs. Nevertheless, online games have their own particular dynamics, opportunities, and cultures that we thought it might be good to explore, for people who are less or un-familiar with the experience. We're joined by veteran Storyteller of online gaming, Fetch, who shares wisdom from her extensive experience, which we compound with hoary reminisces about the forums and text-based ditherings of yesteryear (which we would not trade for anything of this world). This isn't an episode about the digital Dreaming itself, although maybe that's yet another entry for the Season 4 wishlist; this is an episode about how, through gaming, to dream digitally.
Some of the links we discussed in the episode include:
Lot-Casting Atemi, a tool for all your Exalted character management needs: https://www.lotcastingatemi.com/
Hammertime, the location-sensitive timestamper for Discord: https://hammertime.cyou/
Fetch's independent games including Necromancer and Do Androids Run on Electric Spoons?: https://ameliafetch.itch.io
And her Bluesky as well: https://bsky.app/profile/ameliafetch.bsky.social
As for ourselves:
Discord: https://discord.me/ctp
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082973960699
Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@ChangelingPod
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChangelingThePodcast
your hosts
Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) once used Metamorphosis with Prop 5 and Scene 5 to briefly transform all of mIRC into a single honeybee.
Pooka G (any pronoun/they), upon seeing in online game a (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻, will politely do a ┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ).
On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
—Peter Steiner
Changeling the Podcast is a weekly exploration of the roleplaying game Changeling the Dreaming. Episodes range from readthroughs of books, to interviews with people relevant to Changeling, to deep dives into various topics. We are two fans of the game who are excited to share our love for Changeling with you all.
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