thegamemistress

...eventually, once my WtA game wraps up (which won't be for some time yet).

More at http://community.livejournal.com/greengamersglen/17436.html

ETA: This is going to be a Face-to-Face game. Sorry for any confusion.

Has anyone who's played both Dreaming and Lost noticed that with Lost, you can actually *make* the characters that you had to pretty much shoehorn into a kith in CtD?

Case in point - back when I was playing Dreaming, I had a character that I wanted to base on the Japanese tennyo, or celestial nymph. In CtD, the best I could come up with was to make her an eshu. Given that I had only nine kiths to choose from, I made the best of it, but I was never really satisfied.

With Lost, I have a number of choices for that character - Dancer (in one story, the celestial maiden dances for a mortal), Airtouched (the tennyo were said to live in the sky), possibly even Draconic (equating "celestial" to "angel"). Were I to modify the original concept a bit, I could even see her being a Woodblood or a Flowering.

It's wonderful to have that sort of choice, instead of having to pick something that almost-but-doesn't-quite fit, and hoping for the best. With Lost, I can make characters the way I want to from the beginning. :)

Here's a very rough "blurb" for The Second Rome, a tabletop CtL game I'm thinking of running sometime in the future.

Something to let percolate through the back corners of my mind for a while, I guess....

Stopped by the library yesterday after getting a haircut.

In addition to the weekly load of "brain candy" (read, manga), I checked out some guidebooks on New England (inspired by justric's old game, I'm putting Miles Cross on the north shore of MA), two books on urban legends (great source material for a nWoD game, methinks), and a book on PA hauntings (for my tabletop WtA game).

I am now a happy little geek.

For those of you who've been waiting (I know I have), Changeling the Lost is now available on DriveThruRPG.com!

I *cannot wait* until this game comes out.

And yes, I'll probably end up running it. I've got a couple of ideas percolating through my head, but I think I'll need to wait for the book to firm them up.

My firmest ideas involve the characters all emerging from Faerie into the real world at the same time and place - a good way to get them to hang together at first, I think. And hopefully after a few shared adventures, they'll have developed enough of a bond to stay together.

I just hope I can find some way to play the character I have in mind....

lostsatyr and I went to Milennium Games & Hobbies in Rochester for Free RPG Day yesterday.

I'd really only been intending to snag a couple copies of the Changeling: The Lost demo adventure and then lostsatyr and I would go next door to Taste of India for lunch (they've got a *scrumptious* buffet), but the fellow who had the CtL demo was running a Scion adventure, and one of the characters available was Yukiko Kuromizu, the Scion of Susano-o. As I told lostsatyr, how could I resist? =)

I had great fun, even if some of the players there were close to the stereotype of the gamer guy. I was amused that I had to explain to the fellow playing the Scion of Tezcatlipoca that "No, this game doesn't have alignments," when he asked me if the Scion of Aphrodite was "the chaotic character." I also had a bit of fun at the expense of the fellow playing the Scion of Aphrodite when I corrected his misconception about how "Oriental women don't do that" (involving something my character did). Err, excuse me, you're sitting right next to one IRL? =)

I had a great time playing the game - so much so that I couldn't stop talking about it to lostsatyr over lunch. He was quite taken with the ideas of the game, too, so I went back to the store and picked up a copy of the rules. As I told the GM, "I sold the hubby on it!" He gave me a thumbs-up. :D

I did get what I came for - and since the fellow who'd been playing the Scion of Tezcatlipoca didn't want a copy of the CtL demo, I was able to get one to give to justric. Huzzah!

I like the CtL demo, but in some ways it's just enough to tantalize me. I'd rather it contained some sample splats, powers, etc. (a'la the Promethean: The Created demo book); the adventure and the sample characters just didn't seem to grab me. Maybe it's just me. I do like the hints about what the game is going to be like, though - I'm eagerly awaiting the release of this one come August.

After lunch at the aforementioned scrumptious Indian buffet, we returned to Buffalo for ambrose_rinaldo's D&D game. justric stopped by with his adorable little girl, and we got to spent a bit of time chatting, which made me happy. He also brought me some homemade ginger beer! Yee! *does the happy dance* I was very pleased to give him the CtL demo - he seemed so pleased to get it! :)

And now to eat breakfast....