The Price: Index

Originally published January 3, 2014

In the interest of making it easier to navigate, this week I'm posting a compilation of all my articles focused on the development and actual play reports of my Changeling: the Lost Chronicle The Price.

Prospecti:

• Part 1: where I send out my first prospecti for the games I want to run. Changeling wins out (barely) over space exploration.
• Part II: where we narrow down the theme and outline the basics of the game.

Game Development:

• Character Creation: where we create the characters using the World of Darkness: Innocents and adapted to the God Machine Chronicle (GMC) rules.
• Music: where I discuss my inspirational sources for the game.
• Guild System: I replaced the courts with something that I think works better.
• Cut Characters: a pair of character cut from the game.

Session Recaps:

• Ingresses: our characters deal with their mortal world problems before finding a gateway to elsewhere.
• Down the Rabbit Hole: the character explore the Under-Hedge, the Night Market and get caught up in its world.
• Mortal Tales: the characters deal with mortal problems and visit the Goblin Market.
• The Ogre of Mo-Hedge: entering the junk piles of Mo-Hedge, the group rescues a runaway Changeling and run afoul of an ogre.
• The Horrors of the Witch-House: the characters venture into a haunted house for the last item needed for their immediate goals.
• Transitions: the final parts of the Changeling template are applied.
• Lords of the Under-Hedge: the motley attends dinner with the Under-King and rescues Yvett.
• McQueen's New Girl: the theme is love as Changelings fall in love or out of it.
• Broken Mirrors: Marco faces his fetch in a bloody confrontation. Yvett is saved again.
• Growing Pains: the motley ages up as 15 years pass.
• The Heist: the motley steals a painting holding the Quill of Fate and outwit a potent Fae.
• Haunted by the Past: the motley discovers how Detroit has changed and learns they are being hunted.
• Can't Go Home Again: the motley learn the about the plots arrayed against them.
• Broken Promises: the motley learns what is really going as the True fae begin their escape.
• Criminal Enterprises: the motley pursues their mundane goals.
• Dangerous Gambits: plots are resolved, lives threatened, and a dangerous secret uncovered.
• Revisiting Rosebriar: the motley journeys to the town of Rosebriar and finds great danger.
• Thorns and Temptations: The Changelings find themselves offer power and their wildest dreams as things grow worse and worse.
• Mirrors and Madness: The truth comes out: who and what Alice Ruby is and what the deal was that rewrote reality.
• Shattered Fates: The mirror is broken, Hedge is rescued, then shot and 
• savaged by cats.
• End Games: Destiny is averted, an Evelina McQueen dies, and someone meets their doom.

Extra Material:

• The Red Company: Rocco's Guild of explorers, merchants, and daredevils.
• Artifacts: details on the potent artifacts that drove the game.
• Tokens and Trifles: minor and not so minor magic items from the game. 
• Goblin Fruits: a smorgasbord of fruits from the Hedge.
• Under-Hedge: explore the strange underground realm of the Hedge.
• Final Thoughts: what was learned, what worked and what didn't.