Changeling - Players Guide.pdf

Pishogue
No matter what your current amount of Glamour or Banality
is, your mind is constantly in a Bedlam-like state. (No
penalties are suffered, but it must be roleplayed.) You interpret
reality very differently from everyone else, but in a benign
fashion. The world is a place of endless, childlike wonder to you.
Even the most Banality-ridden places seem like storybook palaces.
You are an eternal ingenue, and your world view makes you
generally very trusting in others. This does not necessarily mean
that you are easy to manipulate, however. Because of your strange
mental state, you are easily distracted, yet you may also notice
things that other people miss. You tend to be highly creative.
Quest: You are a creature of the Dreaming, and regain
a Willpower point every time you avoid a particularly unpleasant
truth.
Ban: Never take anything too seriously.
Prankster
The quintessential faerie prankster, you delight in the
playing of all manner of jokes and pranks. You do this for any
number of reasons. You may merely want to amuse people, or
you may be trying to break people's banal paradigms to awaken
some Dreamers. The pranks you play may be as simple as a pie
in the face, or as elaborate as a sidhe family tree. These pranks
are rarely harmful or done out of spite, and usually result in no
more than a few bruises or some personal embarrassment.
Favorite targets are humans, pompous fae or the very serious.
Quest: Regain a point of Willpower every time you pull
off a particularly artful prank.
Ban: Never verbally apologize for a prank (indirect acts
of contrition are permissible). Never take anything too seriously.
Stoic
You take the unavoidable sorrows (and joys) of life in stride.
You have a calm and serious mind, and rarely give into unseemly
displays of emotion. This does not mean that you do not have
feelings, you just do not wear them on your sleeve. The most
people will ever get out of you is a slight smile or a small frown.
Quest: Regain Willpower every time you come through
an emotionally charged situation with your composure intact.
Ban: Never let your emotions get the better of you.
Virtuoso
There are few people who can say that they have mastered a
given field, and you are one of them. You are a specialist, striving
for excellence in a small number of related disciplines. Even it you
have not yet reached the level of excellence that you desire, you
consider yourself an authority (though you admit that you have
more to learn). You gear all your attention toward learning more
about your field of expertise.
Quest: Gain a point of Willpower every time you
accomplish something that brings you closer to mastering
your intended field of study.
Ban: Never become involved in tangential matters for
too long.
Unseelie Legacies
Bogle
There is a wealth of human folklore about bogles, and you
are happy to be part of such a proud tradition. You are a prankster
at heart, and you do not care who gets hurt as long as you get a
good laugh out of it. Spiteful, mean-spirited pranks are your
favorite, though you may occasionally play more benign ones.
The results of your jokes usually range from the merely mean to
the fatal. Like the Prankster (see above), your jokes may range in
intricacy, but motivations tend more toward spite and revenge.
Quest: Regain a point of Willpower every time you pull
off a particularly artful and mean-spirited prank.
Ban: Never apologize for a prank. Never let any intentional
slight from a human go by without a prank as repayment.
Churl
Manners are for wimps, wusses and mama's boys. Urmpl
Rude and ill-bred, you scoff (and fart, piss and belch) at
convention. Polite society is just a bunch of sidhe snobs with
something up their butts and even more to hide. Unlike the
Grotesque (see Changeling: The Dreaming), you are not
necessarily trying to be disgusting; you just think that the
societal strictures governing personal comportment are unnecessary.
You are... natural.
Quest: Regain Willpower every time you get away with
outraging polite society.
Ban: Never be polite.
Fiend
You inflict pain for no other reason than the enjoyment
you get out of watching others suffer. You are, in short, a
sadist. You may have a hundred facile rationalizations for why
you do what you do. Maybe you have really tried to stop, but
the feeling of power that you get out of controlling others'
destinies always draws you back. You only feel truly alive
when someone else is screaming in pain or begging for mercy.
You realize that even other Unseelie fae frown upon this
attitude, so you know to hide this predilection, usually behind
the guise of another Legacy. You live in fear that someone
may give you what you really deserve. You should consult the
Storyteller before taking this Legacy.
Quest: Regain a point of Willpower every time you
really hurt someone.
Ban: Never pass up an opportunity to inflict pain.