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| Changeling Night Horrors: Grim Fears (Changeling) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Stephen Dipesa, Matthew Mcfarland, John Newman, Alex Scokel, Geoff Skellams
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 138621
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1588467430
Dewey Decimal Number: 793
EAN: 9781588467430
ASIN: 1588467430
Publication Date: October 8, 2008
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A Chronicle Book for Changeling: The Lost
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Not for everyone, but still a great read. November 16, 2008
For those who don't know, this book is a compendium of premade NPCs for the RPG Changeling: The Lost.
Is it worth buying?
Yes, I think so. While not all of these characters would be ready to drop right into a game "out of the box," with slight modification and introduction, they would work just fine. They also serve as fine inspiration for your own NPCs. I read through the entire thing cover to cover, and there wasn't a single entry that I didn't harvest at least one cool idea from. Some creatures I wanted to use outright. Others I merely wanted to use as a template for a fae I had already envisioned, but had trouble describing.
Is it for everyone?
Probably not. If you're looking for rules crunch to drop right into the game, this book won't really deliver. There's a couple of neat Social-fu Merits tucked away in odd corners of the book, but for the most part the book is nothing but character text with the occasional stat block. Mind you, it's GREAT character text. But for those looking for another Autumn Nightmares, this isn't the same thing at all.
A good surprise November 17, 2008
While conceptually the Night Horrors series seem to be a good addition to the World of Darkness line, providing new focal points to chronicles of all game lines through iconic characters and their struggles to antagonize or rally the player characters, it would be easy to get lost in execution and turn all those books into mere NPC lists for Storytellers who are either lazy or don't have the time to prepare much for a session beforehand. And while this wouldn't be intrinsically bad, it would be an indication that there's nothing much less to say about the World of Darkness in its new incarnation.
Fortunately, that's not the case with Grim Fears. Most of the characters in there are very evocative, representing both common archetypes from fairy tales across the Western world and twists to the Changeling setting in the form of new Kiths, powers and ideas that can amp up the stakes in any chronicle you're running (be it a Changeling chronicle or not, as appropriate to the series' general concept). Which just makes it a worthy addition to the Changeling line as well as a good indication of what's to come, both to that line's extension beyond the first five supplements planned and to the rest of the Night Horrors series in general.
From the damsel in distress to another rendition to the Hook urban legend (already covered in WoD: Urban Legends), from the capitalist type to the old cannibal hag trope, from the dragon-inspired True Fae to the changeling outlaw, almost everything here provides good ideas, concepts and means for anyone to enrich chronicles in a way only WW is usually capable of. Worth every cent. The only downside is that it doesn't go as far as it could on the rules side; most of the material in here still requires basic knowledge of the Changeling rules to be used, even if it was supposed to be used across game lines. That's the only reason why it doesn't get five stars; some powers and effects could have been described with no use of Contracts and fae terms. But that's a minor quibble at best, considering it's still a Changeling book.
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