Book of Storyteller Secrets (CTD)
- See also Book of Storyteller Secrets for Vampire: The Dark Ages
Book of Storytellers Secrets is a sourcebook for Changeling: The Dreaming.
Summary
Fear the Darkness!
Changelings have many enemies but a few are as feared as the Dauntain, those who have turned their backs on the Dreaming. The introductory story included in this package allows the Storyteller to place characters in direct confrontation with their most deadly enemies.
The Book of Storyteller Secrets features:
- Complete crossover rules for running games with other Storyteller games.
- The chilling story "Quixote Syndrome." (Test your players' nerve!)
- Storyteller screen containing all of the most useful charts for running Changeling: The Dreaming.
Contents
Chapter One: Crossover Rules
Guidelines for how changelings may interact with vampires, werewolves, mages and ghosts.
Chapter Two: Quixote Syndrome
A chronicle set in San Francisco, in which the player characters are tasked to rescue a childling from a brutal psychotherapist before he is Unmade.
Act One: The Quest
- Orderlies & Security Guards - Stats
Act Two: The Rescue
- The Oath of the Long Road
- Terry's Chimera Guardian - Stats
- Chimera:
- Mirror Nervosa - Stats
- Paranoia Nervosa - Stats
- Psychiatrist Nervosa - Stats
- Winter - Stats
Act Three: The Return
Chapter Three: Jump-Start Characters
A sample motley which is suitable for running "Quixote Syndrome".
Background
At the back of the book is a full page ad for the Immortal Eyes Chronicle, "Oct. 28, 1995." And an ad for the Umbra expansion set for the Rage CCG.
Memorable Quotes
Characters
- Naise - Sidhe noble of House Fiona, exiled to Earth, now Terry Woods
- Keridwen - Sidhe in the Dreaming, exiled Naise and Naise's lover
- Michael Bowman - Human Gold prospector, disappeared
- David Marten - Michael's nephew, Human
- Dr. Johann Schmertz - Head of the asylum, lost the Institute to public auction
- Helen Matthews - Human, turned the house into a boarding house
- Linda Whitcomb - Patient at the Denholm Institute
- Jeffrey Donaldson - Patient at the Denholm Institute
- Gregory Jones - Patient at the Denholm Institute
- Tom Wood - Terry Wood's father
- Wendy Wood - Terry Wood's mother
- Duchess Aoibhell
- Doctor Joseph Chapman, a Dauntain psychiatrist
- Dennis Barker, Don Haxton, Cheryl O'Neill: Dauntain who work for Dr. Chapman, bringing Kithain back to the Denholm Institute for "treatment"
- various nervosae and chimera in the Denholm Institute
- Terry Wood, a ten-year-old sidhe who has recently fallen into Bedlam.
- Donna Marcus, Terry's teacher
Terminology
Denholm Institute, Chimera: Living Within Our Dreams by Dr. Anton Stark (Book), Quixote Syndrome, Crystal Grove, Toybox Coffee Shop,
References
| Previous release | Game Books | Next release |
|---|---|---|
CTD: Changeling: The Dreaming Rulebook   | Changeling: The Dreaming books | CTD: Immortal Eyes: The Toybox |