Cantrip Casting Guide


for Changeling: The Dreaming

Cantrip Casting System

  • Establish Die Pool: Attribute (per Art) + Realm (if more than one Realm is used, use the rating of the Realm with the lowest level. The exceptions to this are Scene and Time when used as secondary Realms)
  • Establish Base Difficulty: Target number = caster's or target's Banality (whichever is higher) +4
  • Establish Glamour Cost: Cantrips cost one Glamour to affect Banal targets, one Glamour for Wyrd cantrips, one Glamour for each additional Realm after the first, and one Glamour to cast without a Bunk. If the cantrip is Wyrd, then Glamour need not be spent to affect a Banal target. A changeling who Calls upon the Wyrd automatically affects Banal targets and creates Wyrd effects without further cost. All other Glamour costs are cumulative. Glamour spent above this cost reduces Difficulty on a point-for-point basis, but may never reduce the target number below 3.
  • Choose a Bunk: Describe the caster's bunk, and determine it's rating. Level 1 bunks can be performed in the same turn that the cantrip is cast, but do not reduce difficulty. Higher level bunks lower Difficulty on a point-for-point basis, but never lower the Target number below 3.
  • Determine Final Difficulty: Final Difficulty = Base Difficulty - excess Glamour spent and - Bunk level (if 2 or higher). The target number can never be lower than 3.
  • Establish Success (or Failure): Roll Die Pool against Final Difficulty target number and tally successes.


    • Countermagic

    Kithain can counteract each other's cantrips by two methods, invoking their own Banality against the Glamour, or by counterweaving, reshaping the Glamour back into its inert state.

  • Invoking Banality requires the changeling countering the cantrip to gain a temporary point of Banality. The player rolls the character's permanent Banality trait versus a Difficulty equal to the permanent Glamour of the cantrip's caster. Successes on the Banality roll reduce the caster's Cantrip successes point-for-point. If all of the caster's successes are cancelled, the cantrip fails. Only the target of the cantrip may resist a cantrip in this way.


  • Counterweaving is an option for characters learned in the Greymayre Ability, and requires the expenditure of a temporary point of Glamour. The countering player rolls the character's Wits + Greymayre against a difficulty equal to the permanent Glamour trait of the cantrip's caster. The counterweaver must also possess the Realms required for the cantrip at their approriate levels. If the counterweaver scores as many or more successes as the cantrip caster achieves, the cantrip fails.



    • the Arts of Glamour
    Art
    (Attribute)    		 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Restrictions
    (source)
    Aphrodisia
    (Charisma)    		 Fancy
    (chimerical)    		 Yearn
    (chimerical)    		 Covet
    (chimerical)    		 Crave
    (chimerical)    		 Need
    (chimerical)    		 rare Art
    (WoD:tBDT, pp. 76-77)
    Autumn Way
    (Manipulation)    		 Insufflation
    (chimerical)    		 Manifestation
    (wyrd)    		 Zeitgeist
    (chimerical)    		 Dagda's Boon
    (chimerical)    		 Reality's Horror
    (chimerical)    		 Adhene Art
    (DotD, pp. 73-74)
    Chicanery
    (Manipulation)    		 Fuddle
    (chimerical)    		 Veiled Eyes
    (chimerical)    		 Fugue
    (chimerical)    		 Haunted Heart
    (chimerical)    		 Captive Heart
    (chimerical)    		 (C:tD 2nd Ed. pp. 172-175)
    Chronos
    (Perception)    		 Wyrd
    (chimerical)
    Backward Glance
    (chimerical)    		 Dream Time
    (wyrd)    		 Permanence
    (chimerical or wyrd)    		 Reversal of Fortune
    (chimerical or wyrd)    		 sidhe Art
    (N:tSH pp. 78-80)
    Contempt
    (Wits)    		 Mockery
    (chimerical or wyrd)    		 Disobedience
    (chimerical or wyrd)    		 Insolence
    (chimerical)    		 Devil's Advocate
    (chimerical)    		 Condemnation
    (chimerical)    		 Shadow Court Art
    (tSC, pp. 79-82)
    Delusion
    (Manipulation)    		 Innocence
    (chimerical)    		 Facade
    (chimerical or wyrd)    		 Mists of Memory
    (chimerical)    		 Depths of Will
    (chimerical or wyrd)    		 Darkest Heart
    (chimerical)    		 Shadow Court Art
    (tSC, pp.82-85)
    Discord
    (Dexterity)    		 House of Mirrors
    (chimerical)    		 Hermes' Fleetness
    (chimerical)    		 Armilustra
    (wyrd)    		 Whirling Dervish
    (wyrd)    		 Life and Limb
    (wyrd)    		 Adhene Art
    (DotD, pp. 74-75)
    Dreamcraft
    (Wits)    		 Find the Silver Path
    (chimerical)    		 The Merry Dance
    (chimerical)    		 Anchor
    (chimerical)    		 Dream Riding
    (chimerical)    		 Dream Weaving
    (chimerical)    		 sidhe Art
    (D&N pp. 126-128)
    Infusion
    (Intelligence)    		 Harden
    (chimerical)    		 Toughen
    (chimerical)    		 FUBAR Geberation
    (chimerical)    		 Animantis
    (chimerical)    		 Gilgul
    (chimerical)    		 nocker Art
    (KB:N, pp. 56-58)
    Kryos
    (Strength)    		 Cold Shock
    (wyrd)    		 Gelid Rime
    (wyrd)    		 Frost Facsimile
    (wyrd)    		 Crystal Prison
    (chimerical or wyrd)    		 Coldheart
    (wyrd)    		 rare Art
    (WoD:tBDT pp.77-80)
    Legerdemain
    (Dexterity)    		 Gimmix
    (wyrd)    		 Ensnare
    (wyrd)    		 Effigy
    (chimerical or wyrd)    		 Mooch
    (chimerical or wyrd)    		 Phantom Shadows
    (chimerical)    		 (C:tD 2nd Ed. pp. 175-178)
    Metamorphosis
    (Stamina)    		 Hidden Form
    (wyrd)    		 Impersonate
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 Go Ask Alice
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 Merlin's Lessons
    (wyrd)    		 Mythic Transformation
    (wyrd)    		 (tFL:tBotC, pp. 76-77)
    Naming
    (Intelligence)    		 Seek & Spell
    (chimerical)    		 Rune
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 Runic Circle(chimerical) Saining(chimerical) Reweaving
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 rare Art
    (PG, pp 171-174)
    Oneiromancy
    (Intelligence)    		 Oneirodynia
    (chimerical)    		 Oneirocritia
    (chimerical)    		 Oneirotaxia
    (chimerical)    		 Syncope
    (wyrd)    		 Expiation
    (wyrd)    		 Adhene Art
    (DotD, pp. 76-77)
    Primal
    (Stamina)    		 Willow Whisper
    (chimerical)    		 Eldritch Prime
    (chimerical)    		 Oakenshield
    (chimerical)    		 Heather Balm (or)
    Holly Strike
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 Elder Form
    (wyrd)    		 (C:tD 2nd Ed. pp. 178-180)
    Pyretics
    (Dexterity)    		 Will-o'the-Wisp
    (chimerical)    		 Willow Light
    (chimerical)    		 Prometheus' Fist
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 Burn and Boil
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 Star Body
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 (PG, pp 169-170)
    Skycraft
    (Stamina)    		 Thunderclap
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 Compass Winds
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 Dark Sky
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 Stormcraft
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 Call Lightning
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 rare Art
    (WoD:tBDT, pp80-82)
    Soothsay
    (Intelligence)    		 Omen
    (chimerical)    		 Fair is Foul and
    Foul is Fair
    (chimerical)    		 Tattle-Tale
    (chimerical)    		 Augury
    (chimerical)    		 Fate's Fire
    (chimerical)    		 (C:tD 2nd Ed. pp 180-183)
    Sovereign
    (Charisma)    		 Protocol
    (wyrd)    		 Dictum
    (wyrd or chimerical)    		 Grandeur
    (chimerical)    		 Weaver Ward
    (wyrd)    		 Geas / Ban
    (chimerical)    		 noble Art
    (C:tD 2nd Ed. pp. 183-186)
    Spirit Link
    (Perception)    		 World Sight
    (chimerical)    		 Ancestor Speech
    (chimerical)    		 Vision Quest
    (chimerical)    		 Placate
    (wyrd)    		 Ghost Dance
    (wyrd)    		 nunnehi Art
    (PG, pp. 174-177)
    Wayfare
    (Wits)    		 Hopscotch
    (wyrd)    		 Quicksilver
    (wyrd)    		 Portal Passage
    (wyrd)    		 Wind Runner
    (wyrd)    		 Flicker-Flash
    (wyrd)    		 (C:tD 2nd Ed. pp. 186-188)


    the Realms
    Realm Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
    Actor True Friend
    (a well known Mortal or Prodigal comrade)    		 Personal Contact
    (a Prodiagl or mortal acquaintance known by name)    		 Familiar Face
    (a passing mortal/Prodigal acquaintance, seen before)    		 Complete Stranger
    (a non adversarial mortal or Prodigal stranger)    		 Dire Enemy
    (a mortal or Prodigal adversary, no matter how well known)
    Fae Hearty Commoner
    (a common kithain including Piskies and Clurichaun)    		 Lofty Noble
    (a sidhe or titled commoner)    		 Manifold Chimera
    (any chimerical person, object or thing, but not cantrip effects even if chimerical)    		 Elusive Gallain
    (alien changelings: nunnehi, menehune, ghille dhu, selkies, merfolk, thallain, dauntain, adhene and hsien)    		 Dweomer of Glamour
    (any other manifestations of Glamour: Balefires, cantrip effects, trods, Treasures, dross &c.)
    Nature Raw Material
    (unliving natural or processed organic matter: stone, straw, paper, foodstuffs)    		 Verdant Forest
    (living plants or fungi)    		 Feral Animal
    (living non-sentient animals)    		 Natural Phenomenon
    (weather, earthquakes, tides, &c.)    		 Base Element
    (Natural chemical elements, or Air, Fire, Water and Earth)
    Prop Ornate Garb
    (things commonly worn: jewelry, clothing, tattoos, hair accessories)    		 Crafted Tool
    (manufactured objects, but with no moving parts)    		 Mechanical Device
    (objects with moving parts but not needing fuel or power source, includes guns)    		 Complex Machine
    (simpler devices with moving parts and requiring power or fuel: power tools, appliances, cars and motorcycles)    		 Arcane Artifact
    (more complex electronic or fueled devices: airplanes, medical equipment, computers)
    Scene Close Chamber
    (a small area - 25 square feet)    		 Humble Cottage
    (an area up to 200 square feet)    		 Lonely Lane
    (a roadway outdoors, or an area up to 750 square feet)    		 Secluded Glen
    (a natural setting outdoors or an area up to 2,000 square feet)    		 Proud Castle
    (a large building, up to 50,000 square feet)
    Time Brief Moment
    (a delay of a few seconds to around five minutes)    		 Passing Hour
    (a delay of up to an hour)    		 Whole Day
    (a delay up to twenty-four hours)    		 Long Week
    (a delay up to seven days)    		 Full Month
    (a delay up to thirty days)

    Bunks

    Players are encouraged to create their own Bunks, either upon the spur of the moment, or planning out a few in advance. The Storyteller is the arbiter of a Bunk's rating. Especially creative, appropriate or inspired Bunks should be rewarded by a higher rating, while Bunks that are recycled time and again or cribbed from another character may become less effective from repeated use.

    Some sample Bunks appropriate to various Arts, intended as a springboard for Player innovation and as a suggested rating standard for Storytellers, are given here:





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