Changeling House Rules

Attribute Boosts

Some kith Birthrights (Piskies, Satyrs, Selkies, Sidhe, Trolls, etc.) increase the character’s Attributes. For the purposes of spending XP, these increases are treated as a floating bonus, rather than a permanent increase. That is, a Sidhe who wishes to increase their Appearance from 6 to 7 is actually raising it from 4 + 2 to 5 + 2, and the cost is therefore 16 XP rather than 24. This is to meant to keep XP costs level between characters who may have chosen different Attribute allocations in character generation.

Bunks

When casting a cantrip off-screen (e.g., for an Extended Effect), characters may assume they were able to perform a Bunk of up to -3 value, but no higher.

In general, Bunks should conform to the following guidelines:

  • -1: Any sincere effort to adhere to the themes of Changeling.
  • -2: Fairly easy to accomplish but annoying.
  • -3: Doable when needed, but impractical to get for everything you cast.
  • -4: Requires serious advance planning, has major personal cost to you, or both.
  • -5: Only possible in cases of enormous effort or great self-sacrifice.

Per the C20 Core Rulebook, p.196, “Typically, bunks require the character to spend at least one
turn acting before the changeling invokes the cantrip.” A Bunk requiring a dice roll which carries a significant chance of failure may be awarded an additional -1 at the discretion of the Storyteller.

Arts

Arts with durations that last beyond the scene in which they are invoked follow the rules for Extended and Permanent Effects, even if they are not using the Time Realm to do so.

Naming

  • Simply telling another Changeling your True Name (or someone else’s) is not sufficient to make use of the effects of Naming 3, 4, and 5 on them; discovering enough about their inherent nature to gain the “profound insight into who or what they are” requires use of Naming 3 (Saining).
  • However, knowing someone’s True Name counts as an “intimate attachment or piece of information”, and therefore allows a sorcerer to use Naming 3 against them without their physical presence. Be careful who you reveal your True Name to!