Dreams and Nightmares (Changeling: The Dreaming)

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Dreams and Nightmares
ISBN
1-56504-718-4

Dreams and Nightmares is a tabletop role-playing game supplement released by White Wolf Publishing in November–December 1997 for their game Changeling: The Dreaming, and is part of the larger World of Darkness series. It was well received by critics.

Overview

Dreams and Nightmares is a sourcebook for the tabletop role-playing game Changeling: The Dreaming,[1] where players take the role of changelings.[2] It describes the Dreaming.[1]

Production

A 2011 photograph of Steve Ellis
A 2014 photograph of Steve Prescott
The art team included Steve Ellis and Steve Prescott.

Dreams and Nightmares was developed by Ian Lemke,[3] and was written by Robert Scott Martin, Neil Mick, and James A. Moore, and edited by Ed Hall.[4] The art director for the book was Aileen Miles;[3] the art team also included interior artists Steve Ellis, Jeff Holt, Ryan Kelly, Matthew Mitchell, Paul S. Phillips, and Steve Prescott, and the cover artist Michael Gaydos.[3][4]

The book was released by White Wolf Publishing in November–December 1997[1] as a 130-page softcover book; it has since also been released as an ebook.[4]

Reception

Reception
Review scores
SourceRating
Backstab9/10[5]

Dreams and Nightmares was well received by critics.[1][5][6] Dragon comments that "the enchanting imagination that suffuses Dreams and Nightmares gives ChangeIing a spirit of whimsy new to the Storyteller line."[6] Casus Belli described it as an "absolutely essential" supplement for Changeling: The Dreaming players, calling it cute and full of funny ideas.[1]

In a review for InQuest, Rebecca Schoenberg stated that the at times vague rules made the supplement "a bit difficult for new players to use", but that it was a "definite treasure for imaginative roleplayers".[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "White Wolf". Casus Belli (in French). No. 111. Excelsior Publications. December 1997. p. 12.
  2. ISBN 978-1-613170-84-7
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  3. ^
    ISBN 1-56504-718-4
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  4. ^ a b c "Dreams and Nightmares". Guide du Rôliste Galactique (in French). Association du Guide du Rôliste Galactique. 2009-05-08. Archived from the original on 2020-08-13. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  5. ^ a b Jouane, Christophe (January–February 1998). "Dreams and Nightmares". Backstab (in French). No. 7. FC Publications. p. 37.
  6. ^
    TSR, Inc.
    pp. 110–112.
  7. ^ Schoenberg, Rebecca (February 1998). "Dreams and Nightmares". InQuest. No. 34. Wizard Entertainment. p. 26.
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