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

Richard Dansky (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: White Wolf Publishing (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565047265
• ISBN-13: 978-1565047266
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,901,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Testing, testing. Is this thing on?

*ahem*

Anyway, hi there and welcome to my Amazon.com page. I'm a writer and video game designer, currently residing in Durham, North Carolina and working for Red Storm Entertainment. Officially, my title is Central Clancy Writer, which means I work on many of the Tom Clancy licensed video games, as well as other titles like Might & Magic and Far Cry. In my professional capacity, I fulfill a variety of roles - script doctor, writer, designer, design manager - you name it.

By night, I write horror fiction. My first publication was a paper in the academic journal Lovecraft Studies, and since then I've had four novels, one novella, and a handful of short stories published. Most of what I right seems to fall into a sort of transplanted Southern Gothic, hence the name of my website - http://www.snowbirdgothic.com

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bats as Voices? Ugh., June 25, 2000

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Anna (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews

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

Of all the Changeling books I own, this has to be one of the more disappointing, esp. because, as a long-time player, I was very fond of sluagh as a kith. I found the artwork to be far too 'cute' to take seriously, and the opening story, while entertaining, contradicted much of the Player's Guide, and corebook impressions of the kith. Instead of their 'Whispers' Flaw having been born from 'Whispers being more terrifying than a shout' (Player's Guide), we have a tale of their voices having been bats slain by the Tuatha as revenge. We are told of secret Seelie-Unseelie Wars, when WW canon until then had been Kith solidarity, no matter what. The reason and motives behind Wraith/Sluagh linkage was changed...again. And murder by Iron for talking too much? Puh-leeze.

This is not to say the book had NO redeeming qualities. It DID have interesting sections on Abbey Lubbers (sluagh that punished the wicked rich) Truth (and why it is important), and Wheelings and Dealings (How their network works) that seemed to keep to the spirit, and was entertaining.

However, the editing was a bit sloppy; the Flaw, 'Knows Too Much,' was left in by mistake. It was intended to have been cut. As it is, the book contradicts ITSELF, with tales of reincarnated 'Sluagh of Note' in the back.

One somewhat redeeming quality I found in the book was in the Merits and Flaws, which, on the whole, were decent. Excepting the editing error.

As a whole, however, for creatures of born of darkest Nightmare, of whisperers in the dark and things that slither and Watch, I was left with far too warm and fuzzy of a feeling. And having expected something perhaps a bit more...horrifying...this rather compounded my sense of disappointment.

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Got Secrets?, June 27, 1999

By A Customer

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

This book contains the history and secrets of the enigmatic Sluagh. Shunned and looked down upon by most of the other Kiths in general, a deep and probing look is given to the reclusive Kith with reviews of the other Kith from their perspective, information on great Sluagh 'heros' and a dreaded secret every changeling player should know...

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Slippery? then it must be a sluagh, April 1, 2000

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Andrea Mollo - See all my reviews

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

If i had to choose a book out of the ones I've read abut Changeling, I'd choose this one. Why? It's simple: the information is not only interesting but also very ample. Before I read this book I tought that sluaghs were just ugly, smelly and disgusting faeries. Who wants to play a character that cannot raise its voice above a whisper? Now, I'm grateful I overcame my prejudices: sluaghs are far more than that. Useful for those who love secrecy, and mystery, and the darker side of the Dreaming.