Bootleg Faeries – A FATE game inspired by Changeling: The Lost and Faerie Tales Stolen away by the Gentry, powerful inscrutable Faerie creatures, you’ve been twisted and changed by your time in the fae realms. However, you’ve finally escaped, through force or trickery, and returned to the mortal world only to find it isn’t as you remember. Across America the sale of alcohol has been banned bringing about an era of bootleg liquor, jazz, and crime. Worse yet, no one noticed you left - a faerie creation was left with your face and living your life. What will you do in a world that can’t see your true nature and has no place for you? Will you fight to reclaim your old life, slide into the beautiful madness of faerie courts, delve into the criminal syndicates, or drive a new path entirely of your own making? Bootleg Faeries is a new online roleplaying game running Monday evenings (MST) inspired by the Changeling: The Lost setting and using the FATE ruleset set in the Prohibition Era of the United States (1919-1933). We will play using Discord for communication/dice rolls and an online Miro whiteboard as our table. This is a welcoming table for players of all experience levels with roleplaying, FATE, and Changeling. It is also welcoming to players of all genders, ethnicities, and sexual orientations – absolutely no bigotry or discrimination will be tolerated. It is expected that mature topics will come up with appropriate lines and veils drawn to ensure that everyone at the table is comfortable. What is Changeling? Changeling is a game about escapees from Faerie who struggle to rebuild their lives while coping with the trauma of their imprisonment, the threat of their captors returning, the struggles of their newfound powers, and having an imposter living their old life. While they have been changed mind, body, and soul by their time in Faerie it isn’t all negative because their eyes have been opened to beauty and possibilities that mortals are blind to. With their newfound powers they are more capable of shaping the world to suit their desires and achieving their goals. Of course, they must always remain wary because their former masters don’t take being ‘stolen’ from lightly and they, or their minions, might come looking to drag the escapees back into bondage. Magic in Changeling tends to be less flashy and more Faerie tale type subtlety, dreams, emotions, and oaths. Themes of Changeling often include loss, beauty, sanity, identity, coping with trauma, belonging, dreams, and freedom. What is FATE? FATE is a roleplaying system that emphasizes who your character is over what they are. It focuses on proactive, capable people leading dramatic lives. Rather than focusing on simulating reality, FATE creates the feel of a genre and is often more like creating a TV show or novel together than traditional roleplaying games. FATE is collaborative – from game creation, to characters, to actual play FATE gives players more freedom and responsibility for the world of the game than just representing a single character. FATE is dramatic – both when you succeed and when you fail which keeps the game interesting and dynamic by creating dramatic reversals of fortune and epic successes. It is relatively easy to learn, though it may challenge some preconceptions about how ‘all’ rpgs operate, and could be described as low to medium ‘crunch’. Most of all FATE is fast and fun and you get more focused, interesting play out of a session than with most games. Does this sound interesting to you? Then you should play! Express your interest along with some basic details about yourself like your pronouns and time zone along with your familiarity with roleplaying, Changeling, FATE, and the Prohibition Era (and don’t worry if you aren’t familiar with any/all of those yet). Then we will gather up a small group (3-5 players) and do our setting and character creation together where we ensure that the stuff that interests YOU plays a major role in our campaign.
