Date: 2011-10-19 04:47 pm (UTC)
Oh, yes, the sidhe thing bugged me. Especially since it got worse with each expansion--by the end there were several (often broken in terms of the mechanics) sidhe-only magic tracks, sidhe-only treasures, etc. Plus the various houses stepped on what should have been the coolness territory of the commoner kiths. (Why be a troll if you can be a Gwydion sidhe with the same concept and also be gorgeous and have better gifts and magic?) It didn't help that sometimes the flavor text seemed to back up the idea that, say, nockers are good at making things, but Dougal are extra special magical shiny good.

I can sort of see where they were going with that in the core book—if you want the sidhe at the top of your power hierarchy, and you also want them to be newcomers to your settings (so you can't just say 'well, their power has been entrenched for centuries,' as you could with, say, the ruling-class tribe of werewolves), you need something to explain how they came to trump the commoners. But it's hard to work with the idea that some PCs really are better, out of the gate, than others.

In fact, I was briefly in an online Changeling RPG, and the gamemaster for that one had a hell of a time getting anyone to play commoners at all. People would pick a concept like 'sex and passion' or 'sneakiness' and make up a Fiona or an Eiluned instead of a satyr or a sluagh. And it was sort of hard to blame them, given the skew in the game!

(By the time I got around to reading about the Dauntain and the Fomorians, I was already getting kind of overwhelmed with kiths and starting to glaze over, between the original kiths and all the add-on kiths and the Native American kiths and the Inanimae and so on and so on.)
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