Earthdawn Survival Guide

* Magic: Deeper Secrets Kickstarter is live! * Third and Fourth Circle Illusionist Spells * Josh briefly recaps some thoughts on the Illusionist as a magician * Third Circle Spells * And Then I Woke Up * Blinding Glare * Fog of Jeer * Nobody Here * Phantom Warrior * Top third Circle picks and discussion * Fourth Circle Spells * Clarion Call * Great Weapon * Notice Not * Phantom Lightning * Stop Ri...

* Email from Brendan: Question about Wound penalties? * Email from Mark: Having Brad on the show to talk about 1879? * Theran Empire and Horrors defanged? * Comparing the Denairastas to the Therans. * Some spoilers for Empty Thrones. * Horrors as a disrupting political influence. * Question about the Earthdawn version of Turkey/Anatolia? * Why is Naaman Y’ross such a big deal? * Exploring and surv...

* Some production business: Upcoming episodes * Send in questions for Lou! * Third and Fourth Nethermancer spells * Arrow of Night * Aspect of the Bone Spirit * Aspect of the Cowardly Skulk * Fog of Fear * Grave Message * Pain * Summon Bone Spirit * Discussion and top picks for Third Circle * Aspect of the Menacing Tyrant * Dark Spy * Evil Eye * Last Chance * Nightflyer’s Cloak * Viewpoint * Discu...

* Third and Fourth Circle Elementalist spells. * Ice Mace and Chain * Lightning Bolt * Mantle of the Reflecting Pool * Plant Feast * Thrive * Winds of Deflection * Discussion and top picks for Third Circle * Air Blast * Blizzard Sphere * Elemental Spear * Grove Renewal * Lightning Step * Uneven Ground * Discussion and top picks for Fourth Circle   Find and Follow: Email: edsgpodcast@gmail.com YouT...

* Email from Riley: Tales of the Cult of the Great Hunter. * Email from Charles: Official map of the world of Earthdawn? * Email from Nick: Explaining half-Horrors. * Email from Jesse: Covering the ork tribes or scorcher bands? * Dangers, obstacles, and hazards in mountainous regions. * Context, expectations, and objectives. * Personal experience and familiarity. * Loads of inspiration and researc...

* Please excuse Dan’s rough audio in this episode, he was having computer issues. * Third Circle Wizard spells * Astral Targeting * Aura Strike * Combat Fury * Identify Magic * Levitate * Wizard Mark * Top picks * Fourth Circle Wizard spells * Ball of String * Binding Threads * Evolved Consciousness * Juggler’s Touch * Lighten Load * Wizard’s Cloak * Top picks Find and Follow: Email: edsgpodcast@g...

* Our final Crystal Raiders episode, we promise! * Why do the Crystal Raiders, well, raid? * Scarce resources, need to get things to survive. * Cultural self-justification and myth-making. * Where and what they target with their raids. * Highland troll culture is broken, and their reputation is deserved (at least somewhat). * Rituals to assuage troll honor to best cope with raids. *  Typically, do...

* Diving into the mailbag! * Josh recaps his weekend adventure to Los Angeles. * Email from Walter: New listener thanks us for the show. * Email from Matthew: Recommends “Silo” on AppleTV for ideas on a life sequestered underground. * Email from Riley: Eberron as another richly developed setting. * Email from Aaron: Praise for Horror and Crystal Raider episodes. * Question about forging implanted...

* Our last Horrors episode: Verjigorm * The “Big One”, the “Hunter of Great Dragons”, Earthdawn’s Great Cthulhu * One of three Named Horrors from the original core rulebook. * Entry is very similar to the entry in the Dragons sourcebook. * The “Dark One”, at the beginning, spawned the “Horoi” * One Horoi – Nightstlayer – left the darkness and woke on Earth, saw its beauty, and wept the Nammegivers...

* Special 14 Legends 6 * A Fragment From Nutreva * An Ancient Mystery * Citadel in the Sky * The Growing Bones   Find and Follow: Email: edsgpodcast@gmail.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeoifzUuBjez9V6wnvzom3g Twitter: @EDSGPodcast Josh on Twitter: @LoreMerchant Get product information, developer blogs, and more at www.fasagames.com FASA Games on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/...

* Email from Chris: New listener excitement! * Josh is running an in-person game! * Trolls: The final (?) episode. * Arts and crafts. * Purpose first, beauty second. * Crystal, stone, leather. * Steel is rare; resource and labor intensive. * Stonesmiths and crystalsmiths. * Troll crafts and spirituality; more complex and personal than honor. * Revisiting the dichotomy of troll culture. * Compariso...

* Our penultimate episode about Named Horrors! * Aazhvat Many-Eyes: Lovecraftian mind-screw. * Purely astral Horror * The Eurydon Document: Includes sections in an unknown, untranslated language that some suspect may be the native language of the Horrors. * Plays into Lovecraftian themes of books containing forbidden, mind-breaking knowledge. * Inspires madness by warping its victims’ perceptions...

* Email from Scott: Nemesis and Horror Stalkers. * Updating movement rates from first to fourth edition? * Legends of Earthdawn podcast update. * Email from Pierre Luc: Timeline overview? * Interactive atlas. * Standard-size books? * Life in Crystal Raider society – part one. * The legend of living crystal. * Crystal raiders and other Namegivers wearing living crystal. * Mountain travel and hazard...

* Even more Named Horrors! * Buualgathor – The Horror Hunter * From the Parlainth campaign set. * Uses marked and corrupted Namegivers to track down its prey. * Bloatforms and Depairthoughts are preferred targets. * Little known about the Horror outside Parlainth. * Its essence permeates the landscape; those who spend time there “remember” tales they have heard about it. * Seven bladelike arms, wa...

* Email from Balas: Does Josh know what Virag means in Hungarian? * Email from Polythemus: Story from their game! * Passions and their role in Barsaivian cultures? * Adapting other game content to Earthdawn (vampires)? * Email from Brendan: Shield Bash and Second Attack/Second Weapon? * Email from Anthony: Continuing the Earthdawn demo games! * Involvement with Free RPG Day? * The Firescale Moot o...

* Our Named Horrors series continues! * Revealing how Dan chose the order we’re going through these. * We return to the wonderful and unique aspects of the Horrors sourcebook. * Nemesis: Master of metamorphosis and deception. * Always appears a beautiful, attractive human with bright eyes. * No record of its natural form; like Deceivers in its mutability. * Astral form has dozens if not hundreds o...

* Email from Matthew: Fourth edition political situation in Haven? * Email from Nick: Stephen King recommendation. * Story about using Giftbringer. * Note: The Velocity spell is not in a first edition book. It was created by Morgan Weeks. * Trollmoots of the Delaris Mountains * Quiet, serene, isolated. * Location of the monastery where Elianar Messias allegedly found the Books of Harrow. * Also th...

* Horrors! * Giftbringer: The Stephen King homage. * Almost certainly inspired by 1991’s Needful Things. * Entry written by victim/survivor. * The Horror feeds off aggression and violence, kindled by jealousy. * Powerful illusion powers, masquerades as a travelling peddler or merchant and targets small, isolated communities. * Sells items, then manipulates people’s desires to covet each other’s po...

* E-mail avalanche! * Email from Polythemus: Introducing talent knacks. * Balancing encounters for large groups (action economy). * Astral locations, and things that reside there? * Do adolescent dragons enter their astral cocoons in the same place? * Rites for dead adolescent dragons? * Strength or weakness of the veil between astral and physical space? * Where are the orichalcum pillars/loci? *...

* We continue to explore the Twilight Peaks * Geography of the southern Twilight Peaks. * Rough, dangerous, inhospitable territory. * The Fire Slopes * The Burning Shore * The Ashen Hills; lowlands between the Grey Forest and the Burning Shore * Home of the Southern Exiles; “Kavaheim.” * No central organization; multiple groups along with isolated individuals. * Significant population of followers...

* Email from Anthony: Introducing Earthdawn at a one-shot game night. * Horrors in Depth: Artificer * Not flesh and blood; metallic, covered with wheels, levers, and pulleys. * “Steampunk” Horror. * Background: Elemental spirit summoned by dragons in the previous age and it was corrupted. * Uses Forge Trap power to convert tunnels and caverns into metallic mazes filled with deathtraps. * Provides...

* Crystal Raiders of the Western Twilight Peaks. * Geographic overview of the western range. * Great Sword Valley and the Battle of Sky Point. * The Crystal Span and its connection to Death’s imprisonment. * Death’s Eyes and tales about Death’s domain. * The western passes and Three Rivers. * Bloodlore Moot: Most aggressive and warlike moot. * Embody the stereotype of bloodthirsty troll raiders. *...

* LIVE from FreedoniaCon 2023! * Where are our attendees from? * Earthdawn news from the con * Deeper Secrets is next book in the Kickstarter queue * An upcoming official Earthdawn Wiki * Thirtieth Anniversary – new omnibus editions for the J’role trilogy and the “lost novels” * Email from Polythemus: Returning to Earthdawn! * Questions about player character deaths in the game and social mechanic...

* FreedoniaCon this coming weekend! (Feb 17-19, 2023) * Update on the Wizards of the Coast/OGL situation. * Horrors in depth… * Nebis * Only recorded appearances after the Scourge, but many of them. * Questions about connection to existing living legend cults or other secret societies. * Not overly powerful physically. * Dual-natured Horror, defeating the physical form is only the beginning. * Aft...

* Live episode of the EDSG at FreedoniaCon on February 19! * Central Twilight Peaks * Highest slopes and roughest terrain of the range. * Skytoucher Mountain, legendary home of the first trollmoot. * Destination of the Behemoth in the Battle of Sky Point * Ruins of Ustrect * Twilight Tower, Order of Silver Twilight * Blackheart Liferock * Ironmonger Moot – Northern portion of the central Twilight...