500 Cyberpunkish Names

Ashutosh Paradise	Child Daksha	Olinski Loss
Vikas Misiak	Helmet Master	Chaudhry Child
Flaminio Mist	Chalk Anirudhh	Steel Cryptic
Sanat Vinaya	Warren Manami	Boar Lover
Ratti Imagawa	Caiazzo Jasper	Isabell Bobko
MacGriogair Mcintyre	Ai Warlord	Glorifying Dharmavira
Gemstone Rain	Sinha Kuranosuke	Knight Nymph
Tanya Matsuko	Hadley Vasumati	Young Acid
Raman Petal	Fang Vinay	Taneja Manacle
Munenori Maiden	Joel Lord	Enlarged Ramesh
Heart Neon	Driss Denmaryk	Den Anton
Wave Werewolf	Citadel Twentieth	Svante Crushing
Brobutl Rachna	Victoro Cherian	Patterson Ray
Florence Buczynska	Alias Books	Kanak Strasburg
Bali Servant	obufusa Cursed	Cook Kubilus
Mië Wing	Noriyori Esther	Kathia Presta
Fanny Granite	Discordant Jurian	Manuel Silver
Ryan Pandey	Loving Xie	Wickes Sniper
NíScolaidhe Cryptic	Zylphia Kieber	Tomone Worshipping
Grandjean Gothic	Muni Slutsky	Harris Amaya
Mind Zilá	Lachman Azure	Mad Ghost
Bitterness Steiger	Silver Elisabeth	Richy Tobin
Ice Gina	Tara Manacle	Sunna Blowtorch
Hattori Orchid	Moonsilver Masatoshi	Sundering Hanusa
Dalal Praising	Annihilation Cloth	Sally Kozloff
Face Sharmistha	Asia Shobha	Plutus Crawford
Mikie Ninurta	Tsunami Dolinski	Makary Odalisque
Al-Tayyeb Gerwin	Takayoshi Kelly	Copper Lila
Mockus Ketaki	Alias Serge	Kanetsugu Tora
Bodhisattva Manju	Consuming Shield	Nori Great
Rufus Okita	Pallavi Serpent	Dot Faulkner
Unlamented Seat	Flak Andris	Neena Sawhney
Mahavira Jans	O'reilly Rakesh	Vyas Viola
Wason Decimo	Roborn Dalenky	Variya Gunter
Ignazio Tsunenaga	Tyranny Annihilation	Jack Ginny
Tomiju Vibhuti	Second Alderdice	Chui Maitreya
Tak Excellent	Narang Kusagra	Athanasiou Pulkit
Satiated Eduardo	Kameyo Victorie	Stok Hiram
Master Mainchín	Rust Flowing	Ore Smith
Ekström Charan	Tor Sanjog	Satayu Wesley
Fulop Coxand	Pain Dubuisson	Anger Sjöholm
Diminished Ii	Tarpana Everardo	Sìle Lalla
Ottelien James	Blindfold Vitkus	Lord Groge
Mist Heerwagen	Freitag Bail	Bradley Feodora
Kemp Seraphina	Void Jessamine	Fayyad Preshea
Strewth Kramar	Selma Oda	Nagayasu Hōjō
Uppal Dead	Lonsdale Jue-Chuo	Mccoll Drunken
Saunak Ognibene	NicCruadhlaoich Tamara	Hundredth Doshi
Medard Fearghasdan	River Demeter	ÓCathal oshitaka
Bert Johnsson	Lover Ooka	Whiskey Grasmick
Thorwald Moroz	Dass Frida	Constance Unfettered
Boar DiBerardino	Cruz Sane	Takenaka Nagakura
Devantaka Drive	Drakenberg Charity	Meera Undefeated
Doerr Devin	Ogasawara Buccini	Ōtomo Turing
Golden Smalbrugge	Forsberg Kirchner	Skies Venom
Elisha Kikkawa	Masako Cursed	Laugh Strange
Fuwa Flak	Momo Naoie	Tokimune Cerulean
Thomas Gudrun	Lalima Macris	Surya Kagekatsu
Lea Edifice	Mariann Gunda	Sophronia Hiroie
Sinnett Wolstenholme	Bockus Nagamoto	Chiyoko Narain
Chadha Anya	Ujiyasu Lady	Kozma Jain
Gaffy Dobrow	Procession Eagle	Seth Chokei
Ore Bogdán	Norbut Klara	Flip Petal
Jones Quantum	Number Takakage	Satyavati Egidio
Nikita Belly	Bright Dominik	Ginchiyo Seventh
Rai Andō	Eracla Grim	Avinash Aroused
Gaby Mccarthy	Henk Gitika	Rainbow Sunrise
Exultant Ekachakra	Lucian Satyen	Amol Ramaswamy
Sagacious Mukul	Major Nagamasa	Pirate Lemken
Bright Anzu	Camila Zachariah	Sunder Stream
Jansson Pacho	Soulsteel Mattie	Arima Edna
Bairbre Saffron	Rat Malas	Nirupa Pearl
Neele Manacle	Anthes Hari	Killer Mohini
Nitro Bureau	Hatsu August	Ashwin Ishida
Orchid Bella	Hurley Manoj	Chinami Wave
Sawyer Ashwini	Lundholm MacPhàidein	Laura Mitsuharu
Wada Herbert	Bhaltair Data	Cryptic Risa
Bashō Knobben	Micajah Killer	Merz Ajit
Grey Ramiro	Olivia Pale	Tamaki Ruin
Shindou Unfettered	Beneficent Koto	Millee Keisuke
Hitotsubashi Gun	Ádám Ore	Porter Anshul
Seoras Galinis	Ankur Nankervis	Rogue Bindiya
Lover Narcyz	Ebon Lord	Rati Usami
Hunter Stanley	Molis Kikuë	Kairis Kojima
Willow Nettie	Jeevan Koko	Christodoulou Madhav
Coen Abramov	Runciman Kazi	Beneficent Kamakshi
Srikant Mander	Din Kato	Wattan Sudarshan
Lotus Georgia	Flowing Suté	Hisa Bolotin
Allen Magnuson	Naomasa Iagan	Urjavaha Plummeting
Walton Vermillion	Armor Grinder	Rokosz Gandhi
Gilmore Kiyoni	Price Master	Minerva Prokop
Fujitaka Onyx	Parnika Iginia	Eliza Viviana
Crater Simkus	Domhnall Stephens	Final Vault
Katsumi Loes	Zoe Sharp	Sunrise One
Muadhnait Valeri	Mist Israel	Félix Mckenzie
Fuji Twentieth	James Gate	Cox Bunny
Colbert Blitz	Jayant Sergi	Charlotte Hepner
Jatin Tiger	Sunrise Kennyo	Prachi Guardian
Rezső Abi	Prison Patrido	Besson Pain
Dhananjay Mechanation	Ireland Hikaru	Hill Spider
Yoshimichi Viswanathan	Godelieve Seshadri	MacTuirc Verma
Som Lala	Harris Shruti	Dhawan Skies
Vinita Joyous	Grey Sobha	Jubilant Kura
Johal Patrick	Meson Bronze	Lucian Overload
Thérèse Kazue	Takatoyo Bawa	Rajagopal Toshikatsu
Sayoko Bala	Rancorous Khalsa	Nozomi Someina
Prasoon Mand	Gurkin Masked	Bhavsar Citrasvana
Sumanna Geronimo	Gavan Alabaster	Vikrant Dani
Chu-Kai Vaisakhi	Jeff Banshee	Shukis Shintarō
Duskin Medard	Yoko Taga	Yashodhara Kova
Robert Mazzetti	Crozier Shiho	Koemi Garden
Rosenquist Ekta	Oak Sood	Angry Tapti
Aeson Shikha	Cipher Zou	Spigot Macklin
Abád Mather	Stewart John	Buch Omy
Jayani Aleksander	Deena Serena	Stag Florieke
Myrtle Imai	Intonation Vineet	Genevieve Gijsbert
Temple Granqvist	Grasshoff Stream	Vivek Lamberta
Asvin Phoenix	Nobutomo Caetana	Radgärd Dead
Nobuchika Azure	Devouring Ten	Oza Edit
Schroth Ami	Bailey Boulle	Purohit Martin
Kowaleski Jinx	Narayan Kazutoyo	Mathieson Marianna
Trusha Kai-Zu	Crimson Wable	Shere Prakash
Butterfly Rantidev	Ivan Grievous	Marlina BenAbdelaziz
Anna Angel	Kazushige Yuka	Marble Iris
Rogue Tearing	Lecia Bornholdt	Dawn Blind
Bishop Forsaken	Alloy Citizen	Masako Fourth
Tokiwa Del	Vairaja Cliff	Pau Kissing
Albert Levi	Jonathan Ran	Lind Lyuba
Pohl Komal	Braga Largo	Promire Chandra
Doctor Varun	Smirti Grigas	Nyoko Nimrod
Dòmhnall Tomb	Serial Jaya	Palmer Thrashing
Léonard Eeada	Walia Rosalina	Haeffner Sorrowful
Kakar Ox	Giertych Rout	Refuge Alice
Goda Maksim	Juda Upendra	Sandy Gour
Shark Hatano	Tapi Redoubt	Mellor Rose
Random Valiy	Kaedé Klukas	Dai Plot
Tyranny Annaisha	Forova Sparrow	Moss Hellberg
Tear MacIlleDhòmhnaich	Soul Sour	Finger Lance
Doctor Nene	Moon Naina	Shackle Wali
Nayak Maitryi	Xue Nitro	Faga Keane
Canino Ore	Kaylock Bhandari	Izō Kiko
Chhabra Shigetsuna	Foster Master	Débora Bunny
José Rüdiger	Bhalla Goodwin	Suri Gavrie
Kortman Rui	Stanton Gustafson	Toufiq Roelofs
Worshipping Venkatesh	Lysagh Spyridon	Síoda Thumpston
Durmada Doi	Wilfred Starmetal	Komara Mega
Shah Lord	Prisha Elm	Number Davidson
Tami Vault	Brewer Cyber	Cho Hardesty/Hardisty
Tapesh Lawrence	Markowski Ōta	Jibran Lodewijk
Hermine Binson	Running Lord	Alaine Oksana
Tadaoki Gamo	Kumar Turtle	Mary Rachna
Owl Deviant	Sumitra Hiroshii	Marsaili Corinna
Nagi Pitters	Motochika Rao	Zaccardi Miskinis
Ravana Mcneil	Asharya Tulasi	Perry Jackpot
Hammond Sour	Elm Jade	UíhAinbhthín Walla
Agrawal Panagakos	Angry Cat	Sriram Mclachlan
Wreckage ÓGlaisne	Watanabe Collier	Sessai Zandra
Kura Knife	Kanetsugu Stack	Ezra Kiyotsuna
Ramachandran Zasha	Tower Zlotnik	Fourth Eugeniusz
Ijuin Kageyu	Campisi Rupali	Krantz LoCastro
Spenkelink Popoff	Nora Maffia	Liddle Dubow
Bentzen Citizen	Lady Johnny	Sabharwal Kazan
Ora Anand	Chip Silveira	God N’Ait
Wilkinson Tsuru	Percoco Basu	Jade Seventh
Stalwart Dance	Halder Keszo	Matsudaira Mullen
Mariska Hasegawa	Invincible Oishi	Bittencourt Butler
Nelson Shaila	Third Stallion	Menkous Mek

World of Masks: PbtA Changeling the Lost

SUMMARY

I finally sat down and put together a Powered by the Apocalypse hack for Changeling the Lost. I think it's in relatively playable form now. You can see the folder with those materials here. This is rough attempt blends Urban Shadows and Masks with some small original stuff. As you’ll see, it is primarily a reskinning. It isn’t a way to simulate every kind of CtL campaign. I talk below about the kind of game I’ve tuned this for, generally the kind I dig running.You’ll find several documents in the folder:

• A Base Document with most of the systems (has some of what's presented here).
• A Basic and Other Moves reference sheet.
• Playbooks for each of the Changeling Seemings.
• A Seasonal Moves reference.

If there’s a discrepancy between the Playbook sheets and the other material, go with the playbooks. This isn’t a stand-alone hack. I assumes at least the GM knows both Changeling the Lost and PbtA games. You'll want at least the core CtL book and Urban Shadows. This is a fan-hack and not for publication.

STILL TO DO

• Sections: GM Moves, GM Principles, Threats, Court Clocks, Motley Worksheet, Gear, Major Editing Pass
• Gather input/feedback.
• Playtest.
• Revise based on feedback and actual play.

ASSUMPTIONS

IMHO not all Changeling players have the same read on the material. Here's my default assumptions for the setting.

• Changelings suffered during their durance. Any sparkly memories they have are attempts to cover over their awfulness.
• They may have PTSD, Survivor’s Guilt, paranoia, general guilt over things they did in their Durance, fear that others will find out what they did to survive, inability to trust in others, trauma with particular triggers, fear that they could again become their most awful self, or a terror that if they would bow down before their Keeper if he or she appeared once again. In short, they're broken mentally & physically and now have to figure out how to fix themselves.
• Freeholds have Courts. These are necessary to sustain the rituals which help the Freehold evade the eyes of the Gentry. But there’s a tension in that the Courts are an authority fighting against authority. That may be the catch within the Contract of the Freehold’s Protection: there will always be tension and in-fighting between the Courts.
• Trust is hard. Courts and pledges also exist to give a society in which Changelings can interact and have a "fallback" for trust: authority and rules.
• Changelings don’t travel. Dangers lurk outside the bounds of the Freehold. They have little contact with any Freeholds beyond those closest geographically. Changelings eschew conversations and social media (usually) because they don’t trust easily. On the other hand they may participate in anonymous places where it’s assumed everyone’s untrustworthy.
• Entitlements don't exist as such. They assume a large and cross-Freehold organization which goes against the details mentioned above. I haven’t used them in my standard CtL games because they break the setting’s logic of isolation.
• The Changeling campaign’s centered on the Motley. That association is the closest to a family they have. The Motley’s relatively new. Characters within a Motley may belong to different Courts. This is a little shift from how I’ve run things before. In the past I've started with the characters just emerging from the Hedge.
• The Hedge is useful and dangerous. Within a Freehold, there may be certain paths of note, tended and kept clear. But these are rare. The Hedge can best be entered from particular locations. While Changelings do use it to travel through and hunt, it is always dangerous to stay too long in the Hedge. The closer you are to the real world, the more you hear echoes of it. But even that's a poor guide.
• Goblins live in the Hedge. They have a conflicted relationship with Changelings. Goblins can enter into the real world, usually only near particularly potent Hedge entrances. They’re almost impossible for humans to see. Goblins don’t usually muck with humans.
• We don’t worry or have big individual mechanics for Wyrd as a separate concept, Goblin Contracts, Dream Stuff, Pledge Crafting, and a bunch of other stuff. Hedge Fruit and tokens can be dealt with as fiction, small bonuses, or moves.

MISCELLANEOUS

Seasons and the Courts

Instead of Urban Shadows' factions, this uses Seasons. Characters use +Season rolls to interact Changeling of the other Courts. But what about everyone else? For interactions with non-Changelings where you’d roll with a Season stat, use the following substitutions:

• Spring = Humans
• Summer = Other Supernaturals
• Autumn = Goblins
• Winter = “Aware” Humans

Your associations may vary depending on how you picture the Courts. For Courtless Changelings I’d consider their agenda. For example, a Slaver would probably be rolled with Summer since they’re aggressive. Someone trying to stay below the radar I’d have the players roll Winter against.

I also picture that each Court has factions within it, or at least Changelings with different approaches to the the Season's idea (Fear, Desire, etc). I’ve called these Waxing and Waning in the Seasonal Clarity moves. I associate Waxing with positive, active, constructive, or strong approaches. On the other hand, Waning characters or factions embrace the negative, passive, deconstructive, or restrained approaches. That’s less a concrete mechanic and more a way to imagine NPCs within a Court structure.

What Does Clarity Mean?

Clarity’s a reskinning of corruption from Urban Shadows. In my version, Clarity’s not an up/down scale. In base CtL is has two poles: too human vs. too fae. Instead our Clarity track measures strain and break. Players can define what those cracks actually look like. Most of the mechanical sources of Clarity gain are Changeling powers. But I imagine in game circumstances will require characters to make Stay Strong checks to avoid marking Clarity. Example situations:

• Being surprised by someone from their past life or durance.
• Sharing a moment of intimacy with a mortal.
• Committing violence against an innocent mortal.
• Avoiding contact with Changeling society for a long time.
• Being out on the streets.

Glamour

Glamour’s a major element of Changeling the Lost. I’ve shorthanded that heavily here since I don’t want more resource tracking than we already have. I take it as a given that a PC can make minor expenditures of glamour at will. They have tools to refresh that. If someone wants to do something that would have a high glamour cost, have them mark a condition (but not Wounded).

For example, if someone wants to conceal their Mien from other Changelings for a while, I’d have them mark a condition. That’s a classic spend from CtL, called Strengthening the Mask. Marking a condition usually commits them to harvesting glamour later, so that's the connection. If PCs instead chose to Act to Clear it, so much the better. That makes for an interesting moment. Marking a condition also gives the player a chance to declare something about their motivation for the action.

Pledges

I’ve never found the CtL Pledge-Crafting mechanics that useful at the table. They’re granular and crunchy, even in the revised version found in the sourcebooks. These rules don’t worry about that except in the abstract. Note that the Gain a Debt move is different than in Urban Shadows. It isn’t enough to do someone a favor. Instead you have to offer and they have to accept.

Changelings fear commitment and obligation. They have a hard time trusting. So if someone does a favor for them, they don’t see that as a debt. Unless someone asks and makes a deal, they’re under no requirement to pay them back. That, of course, makes being in a Motley a difficult thing. You have to trust despite it going against your nature. The exception to this are the debts from character creation. They’re more story constructs and ways to build connections.

Contracts

This hack assumes Changelings have some minor basic powers and contracts they can call upon. That’s the purpose of the Invoke Contract move. Want to do something small and interesting that fits with your Seeming or other moves, go ahead. Change the temperature of a room, hear a distant howl, see in the dark, picture what something looked like before it was broken, etc. The Invoke Contract move asks the player to name the contract and the catch. If that creates a speed bump for play, go ahead and skip that.

For example Catches, see this list of the Contracts from CtL.

Motley Focus

This particular hack focuses on the Motley as a unit of play. While there should be tension and give & take between Motley members, this hack offers significantly less PvP than Urban Shadows. The condition recovery mechanics should help keep that back and forth. We’ll see. My intent is something that feels a like more like Monsterhearts or Masks, than US. There should still be a political element, but the players are trying to figure out how to navigate that.

I'll post more on this after I've had a chance to do some playtesting. If you're curious about Changeling the Lost, you can see my other posts on this excellent setting.

Noise to Signal: Q1 & Blog Week Off

I’m taking a rare week off from posting, but... Persona 5.

It should be here soon. I’ve waited over a year for it. Of course this is my busy weekend running four different games. Still I hope to get some time in with it.

We’re done with Q1 2017. I ran 51 and played 10 sessions across 15 different rpgs. I was part of several episodes of The Gauntlet podcast. We’ve done three gaming roundup episodes:

• Episode 95 Impulse Drive, Wind on the Path, 7th Sea
• Episode 91 Spirit of 77, MASHED, Gauntlet League Wrestling
• Episode 87 Monsterhearts 2, Shooting the Moon, Chill 3E

I also did three one-on-one interview episodes: On Gaming with Kids; with Cat Rambo, and with Liz Chaipraditkul.

We’re behind with the editing on the Play on Target Podcast. We released two episodes: Character Creation and GM Best Practices.

If you’re interested in Actual Play videos, I’ve been recording most of my play sessions for the Gauntlet Hangouts. You can see my playlist for the Thursday sessions here. I added 7th Sea, Kingdom, Chill 3e, Feng Shui 2, Shadowrun Anarchy, and Dresden Files Accelerated this quarter. You can also see my full Gauntlet League Wrestling playlist for World Wide Wrestling here. Please rate, comment, and subscribe.

Next week will be Dresden Week. I’ll have my review of Dresden Files Accelerated and the Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game. Project-wise I’m doing a revision of the Rights of Succession rules, am about halfway done with my PbtA Changeling the Lost work, and have the next several history lists outlined.

See you next week!