Time to hop in the ol' time machine as we open (at long last) the first Dark Eras book for the Chronicles of Darkness...! These smaller modules cover specific moments and places around the world through history, presented through the lens of one or more gamelines. The first collection, released in 2016, offers 16 of these chapter-length settings, with four containing material for Changeling: the Lost. We'll be proceeding through them in chronological order, so we start today with both of the crossover chapters: Three Kingdoms of Darkness, a Geist/Changeling romp through the war-torn horrors of 3rd-century China, and Requiem for Regina, a Vampire/Changeling presentation of London in the Elizabethan Age. Both of these are admittedly... light on the Lost-specific elements—which makes our job a bit easier this time, frankly. Nevertheless, we hope you'll find these settings engaging and the overall concept of the Dark Eras inspiring! Or else.

If you're interested in the collection as a whole, you can snag it at https://www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/178583?affiliate_id=3063731. The individual chapters are also for sale as individual modules:

• Three Kingdoms of Darkness: https://www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/211949?affiliate_id=3063731
• Requiem for Regina: https://www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/178595?affiliate_id=3063731

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Pooka G (any pronoun/they) seeks the Wizened who could fashion a Hedge-pointing chariot and other mechanical curiosities. Amelia Fetch (she/her) has met the Invictus' demands of "no bloodshed on stage" by replacing all blood, real and fake, with glitter.

O, call back yesterday, bid time return. —William Shakespeare, Richard II, III.ii.69

Another week, another exploration of nWoD/CofD crossover. This time, with an eye to the upcoming Dark Eras, we're taking a look at Vampire: the Requiem and approaches to integrating it with Changeling: the Lost. There are some thematic similarities: both vampires and changelings are parasites in different ways, both have a tricksy relationship with time and memory, and both are deep into politics. (We'd also pay good money to see a Daeva/Fairest walk-off, just saying.) But how do the games align mechanically? Do Keepers take notices of leeches or might Kindred try to feed on fetches? Is there proper, actual crossover material out there? We dig into these questions and more as we trapeze between editions, so get your grip powder and your... neckguards? is that a thing? in place. On we go!

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Pooka G (any pronoun/they) prefers the Crone's other shapes, like the Trapezoid or the Hendecagram. Amelia Fetch (she/her) snagged some deep discount Coils of the Dragon at the corner store, but they turned out to be just expired licorice.

I got the ways and means to New Orleans I'm going down by the river where it's warm and green I'm gonna have a drink and walk around I got a lot to think about, oh yeah... —Concrete Blonde, "Bloodletting"

The time has come to put aside the old new World of Darkness and move into the Chronicles of Darkness, as we read through the God-Machine rules update. This is the back half of the God-Machine Chronicle released in 2013, which revised and expanded the rules for nWoD's first edition and would later become the basis for the second edition ruleset in Chronicles of Darkness (which is also lightly being considered here). Some of the changes are small; some of them are large; and some of them are just downright baffling. But as we continue to advance through the wilderness between Changeling: the Lost's initial and subsequent conceptions, we're taking the opportunity to observe this museum of ludic experiments and delights along the way. So strap in, prepare yourself for the unholy abomination that is the God-Machine's brass-meat angels, and listen as we discuss the finer points of experience costs and Morality systems and whatnot.

The God-Machine Chronicle book is no longer available for purchase, having been supplanted by Chronicles of Darkness corebook (https://www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/168428?affiliate_id=3063731). You can still get the rules update as a standalone (https://www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/114078?affiliate_id=3063731), but why would you want to? As we discuss in this episode, although the one was based on the other, the material from the update was not copied over to CofD wholesale; further tweaks and occasionally annoying omissions were made. Depending on how completionist you feel, get one or both, or neither!

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Pooka G (any pronoun/they) "accidentally" made an angel out of glowsticks and VapoRub, for the God-Machine is a raver god. Amelia Fetch (she/her) favors the Goddess-Contraption, which is like the God-Machine, but looks way better with those shoes and that hat.

And God created man; and man created machine; and machine— machine created music. And machine saw everything it had created and it said: behold. —Apoptygma Berzerk, "Kathy's Song (VNV Nation mix)"