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| Designers | 1st edition: Mark Rein·Hagen, Sam Chupp, Ian Lemke, Joshua Gabriel Timbrook 2nd edition: Ian Lemke, Jackie Cassada, Brian Campbell, Richard Dansky, Chris Howard, Angel Leigh McCoy, Neil Mick, Nicky Rea |
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| Publishers | White Wolf Publishing |
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| Genres | Personal fantasy |
| Systems | Storyteller System |
| Series | World of Darkness |
| ISBN | 1-56504-700-1 (1st edition)
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Changeling: The Dreaming is a tabletop role-playing game originally published by White Wolf Publishing in July 1995, and is part of the World of Darkness series. Player characters are changelings, fae souls reborn into human bodies, a practice begun by the fae to protect themselves as magic vanished from the world. White Wolf Publishing released a second edition in 1997, and Onyx Path Publishing released a 20th Anniversary Edition in 2017.
The game explores the balance between imagination and practicality, and the struggle of art and beauty against the dark, mysterious "Gothic-Punk" World of Darkness. Changeling draws primarily from Gaelic mythology, particularly stories of the sidhe and Tuatha Dé Danann, but also uses mythology and folklore from various other cultures including Native American nations, Greece, India and Yoruba mythology of Africa.