Kithbook: Pooka (Changeling: The Dreaming) [Paperback]

Angel McCoy (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: White Wolf Publishing (August 9, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156504729X
• ISBN-13: 978-1565047297
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,898,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Angel Leigh McCoy grew up reading books like CARRIE, JAWS, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, and THE EXORCIST to avoid the doldrums of growing up in a cornfield in Central Illinois. She was also addicted to the TWILIGHT ZONE and NIGHT GALLERY tv shows in her youth.

This put her on the path to writing spooky and sexy tales. Her fiction has appeared in numerous books, and in 2011, she has stories in the anthologies: BEAST WITHIN 2, FEAR OF THE DARK, GROWING DREAD: Biopunk Visions and CLOCKWORK CHAOS, among others.

In her day job, she gets paid to be a gamer! Her job title is "writer/game designer" at ArenaNet, where she's part of a vast team effort to make the coolest computer game ever: GUILD WARS 2.

Back in the early days of her career, she spent ten years writing stories, making up crazy characters, and laying out rules for games like MAGE, VAMPIRE, CHANGELING, and FORGOTTEN REALMS. She worked for companies such as White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, FASA, and other RPG companies. At Xbox.com, she was the correspondent Wireless Angel.

More recently, she's the head editor for a fiction podcast ezine (WilyWriters.com), and she edited the anthology NIGHT-MANTLED: the Best of Wily Writers, volume 1.

Angel lives with Boo, Simon, and Lapis Lazuli (kitties) in Seattle, where the long, dark winters feed her penchant for all things spooky and cozy.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kithbook Pooka: I hate it (sorry, Kith Flaw kicking in), June 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Kithbook: Pooka (Changeling: The Dreaming) (Paperback)

Kithbook: Pooka is a wonderful guide to the shapechanging trickster of the Changeling World. However, it's out of print and the only copies I've seen are being offered for absolutely OBSCENE prices. It's fun, but unless you are a hardcore collector, it's NOT worth THAT much.

Lobby White Wolf: perhaps they will reissue it on electronic media, if not paper

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great Material but the Price?!, December 13, 2009

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This review is from: Kithbook: Pooka (Changeling: The Dreaming) (Paperback)

No way is this book worth the money being asked for it. People are trying to capitalize on the nostalgia players have for this excellent and out of print RPG. Yes the books are getting tough to find and Pooka happens to be a rare one. That doesn't mean a buyer should have to rationalize dishing out over $50 for this paperback that's less than what? 60 pages? I saw here on Amazon someone is asking for almost $300. I can appreciate being a collector but that kind of price tag is pure comedy. My personal recommendation is search for this book for under $30 at MOST. As an owner of this book, I can vouch that it's as fun and nifty to have as you might think, but it's not worth most of your paycheck.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book for All Roleplayers to Enjoy!, April 10, 2000

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[e-mail] (Moscow, Russia In Character; New York, Out of Character) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kithbook: Pooka (Changeling: The Dreaming) (Paperback)

As an active Roleplayer, storyteller and Game Mistress, you can say i have read my fair share of compendiums and manuals. When i recently got involved in a Live Action Role Playing game near where i lived, and we played White Wolf's Changling; the Dreaming, our players all tried to line up their characters with what they would be as themselves in real life, to make things a bit easier.

Well, reading the Pooka Kithbook certainly helped me. Everyone in my group loves this book, and is jealous that i play such a kind of character. Pooka can fit into any realm of playability and this book not only outlines a valid history, but also adds a pooka-esque twist, which is always a plus.

The Pooka Kithbook has new merits, and flaws, treasures and roleplaying hints for these complicated characters. And just when you thought a pooka was a cute furry liar, it goes into the more dangerous and exotic Pooka, rare pooka and kith Natures and Demeanors, which i don't want to give away!

All in all, i give this book a massive two paws, two fins, two claws, two hooves... what ever you may have, way up! For any table top or live action player of White Wolf's games, this book is a must on top of a must!