Changeling: The Dreaming is a truly bittersweet game for me. It was my first non-D&D game purchase. It's a game that I found to often be dismissed by many World of Darkness players I knew. Changelings were never as powerful as the others, so no one wanted to play a wandering troll knight when they could go full crinos or use celerity and be like the Flash. It didn't stop me from loving the game though. I immediately fell hard for it. I was 14 when I bought my first Changeling books, but even then the concept of the game struck me to my core.  I've never played the game. I have almost all the books and I ran two sessions of it, but still, I've never played it.

The premise of Changeling: The Dreaming is that once the world was full of wonder and magic. During that time the realms of the fae, the Dreaming, were connected to Earth. Cold logic, lack of imagination, and disbelief severed the connection between the realms. The faerie nobility, the sidhe, fled the world. The remaining fae used rituals to bind their souls to mortals, becoming changelings. The souls would be reborn time after time (unless they were destroyed by banality). When man went to the stars, their was a resurgence of glamour (creative energy) and the gates to the Dreaming opened up. During this time, the sidhe returned, but instead of bonding with humans, they essentially took over human forms (no one is sure what happened to the souls of these humans). For this reason, the sidhe are considered changelings (they're a merging of fae and human), but they don't reincarnate like others.