Earthdawn Survival Guide

* Email from British Joel * Pick Pocket vs Fast Hand * New Discipline variants? Paths? * Love for 1879? * High Circle play? * Content Ideas: Compare/Contrast between Disciplines? Quests around magic items? * Favorite Thread Item? Nioku’s Bow? * Favorite unanswered mystery? * Email from Jonathan * Madness or sanity rules? * Email from Tanner * Accessibility options for digital editions? * Horrors i...

* More Crystal Raiders * Geographic overview of the Eastern Twilight Peaks * Mount An’grak * Stoneclaw Moot * Adopted several dwarf clans during the Scourge; mining companies that worked the mountains. * Strongest kaers of all the trollmoots. * Seen as best option for Throal to establish initial diplomatic relations. * Stoneclaw chief: Kerththale Farseer Stoneclaws * Progressive and forward thinki...

* Bonus points to those who catch the reference in the episode name! * A brief, pre-show message from Josh. * Email from SaintBlissed: Promise oath in astral space? * Not clear on what the question is, but oaths don’t work differently in astral space. * Spirits, spellcasting, and raw magic, with a cut-in from future Josh. * Questions about the -other- Everliving Flower? * Email from Scott: I’m cau...

* Our Horrors series continues with Named Horrors. * Ristul * Narrator Cymric and the novel Prophecy. * More esoteric: no body, mind, or specific entity -- corruption itself. * Most Lovecraftian, cosmic horror styled Horror. * Implacable – nothing concrete to defeat. Might exist as long as magic and corruption exists. * Subsumes minds and personalities of those it infects. * Event Horizon * “What...

* Happy New Year! * Email from Brendan: Karma as a payment for spirit services? * Horrors using Karma? * Horror knowledge of organizations, nations, and politics of Barsaive? * Horror knowledge and opinions on Horror Stalkers? * Email from Nicholas: FreedoniaCon in 2023? (Yes, February 17-19) * Status of Legends of Earthdawn podcast? * T’skrang racial mount for Cavalryman? * Limits of permanent th...

* Wrapping up the Serpent River series. * House Henghyoke: House of the River Otter * Mysterious pirate federation. * All members wear a platinum torc around their necks and go mad or catatonic if it is removed. * Shivalahala is rumored to be a powerful Illusionist * Silent. They do not cry out, even in pain. * Ignore the Free Trade Compact and traditional baksheva rules. * Josh hints at the secre...

* Catching up on the mail bag backlog! * YouTube comment from Digital Hermit: Updating old adventures more efficient than writing new ones? * Revisiting the idea of mundane creature stat blocks and NPCs in an e-supplement. * Email from Lars: Real-world parallel to dread iota – Toxoplasma in wolves * Referenced Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03836-9 * Named Elementals? *...

* Episode 150! * Report on overall numbers and metrics for the show. * 1,849 minutes of content created in 2022. * 68,104 plays over the life of the show since launch. * Average plays per episode: 180, Audience Size: 298. * Single largest day: Oct 11, 2022 – 272 plays. * Listener service and location breakdown. * EDSG YouTube numbers: 575 views, 35 subscribers. * ListenNotes.com – EDSG is in top 5...

* Our series on Horrors continues! * “Lesser” and “Greater” versions of iconic Horror types. * Different versions provide greater challenges, but also examples of how you might tweak the opposition. * Bloatform: Category of tentacled, bulbous mass of deformed flesh. * Love to torment their victims to madness, revel in pain, terror, and murder. * Prefer to keep a community in their thrall, often wi...

* Voice mail from Paul: Questions about Fog of Fear and Death’s Head spells. * Email from Ike: Praise for series on the great dragons. * Is there a template for creating adventures? * Compendium or list of famous adepts from Barsaive’s past? * Red’s Eats? * Email from JB: Repeat questions? * Thread Items and Name being the first key knowledge? * Hiding true names? * Multi-Discipline characters and...

* Part five of our exploration of Horrors! * Baggi: Obese, hairless, arboreal Horrors. * Tough, fleshy sacks that swallow their prey whole. * Feed on feelings of helplessness or frustration. * Karma Void: Must spend more Karma than normal to affect them. * Bloodshaper: Astral Horror that creates a physical construct they act through. * Create corrupted blood charms that infect their victims. * Fee...

* Email from Andy: Questions about Life Circle of One and Horrors? * Email from Scott: Why was Death sealed away under Death’s Sea? * Common creatures for low Circle Beastmaster animal companions? * Ambassador program to spread the good word of Earthdawn? * Email from Jesse: Gliding rules for K’stulaami t’skrang? * Serpent River deep dive: House Ishkarat * Masters of the North Reach: Lake Vors to...

* Our series on Horrorspawn continues! * Ehrlgren: Constructs created for the purpose of spreading corruption. * Have many powers that cause problems for magicians. * Draamf Ehrlgren: Big, disgusting monstrosities. * Increases astral corruption in the area, nauseating miasma. * Ray of corruption: Ranged attack that can remove spell effects or corrupt matrices. * Kaschrek Ehrlgren: Gaunt, gray huma...

* Email from K Scott Rowe: Lateral movement with the Climbing talent? * Can the platform of the platform from the Levitate spell be made smaller? * Email from Ben: Plans for more material about the Wastes? * Email from Saint Bless: Is Jinarimaker related to Elfbane? * Are the immortal elves immortal because of Icewing’s longevity potion? * Is the spell matrix talent available for ally spirit famil...

* More Horrorspawn! Third time is the charm... * Mournguard: An adept soul bound to a suit of armor by a Horror. * Akin to the Death Knight from D&D. * Could serve as a commander for groups of lesser undead with Tactics. * Nightwist: Manifestation of the Horror Ristul’s corruption. * Shadowy, mystic-targeting, Terror inducer. * Can infect a target’s pattern to hide and cause problems. * Nightw...

* Email from Anthony: Question about challenge rating in creature stat blocks. * Attacks of opportunity, held actions, and the like. * Email from Rasmus: Updating old setting material and how things have changed. * Email from Nick Lowe: K’tenshin and T’kambras update in Empty Thrones * Email from Bart: Thoughts and suggestions about player absences. * The game Josh can’t remember is Rapscallion. *...

* More Horrorspawn! This time from the Earthdawn Companion. * Boneless: Formless blob of flesh with a lot of mouths. * Physically tough opponent, multiple attacks. Has crushing special ability. * Brute: Patchwork construct made from different individual body parts. * An upgrade from novice-tier physical opponents. * Deathless Reaver: Giant multi-armed skeleton construct. * Fast and deadly. Earthda...

* Mailbag! * We talk about our love of emails and research. * Answer from Lou Prosperi about the Spectral Dancer, Jehuthra, and Mists of Betrayal. * Email from Lee: Praise for fourth edition, and pop culture reference for the Invae. * Sidebar about Invasion of the Body Snatchers and character actor Kevin McCarthy. * Email from Matty: Lost episodes from early Legends of Earthdawn podcast. * https:/...

* The Nine Diamonds – House K’tenshin * Dominant aropagoi of the Serpent River’s South Reach * Controls the Servos, Byrose, Iontos, and Tylon rivers. * Control of the Tylon is disputed with House T’kambras. * Personal identifier is a ruby and gold earring worn in the left ear. * Allied with the Therans in the past, still has close ties with them. * Operated as a kind of military autocracy; the shi...

* Horror constructs! * Can be used when a full-blown Horror isn’t appropriate to add flavor and mood to an adventure or location. * Black Mantis * Big, fast, nasty insect monster: Upper Journeyman challenge. * Has a little bit of a xenomorph vibe. * Bone Shambler * Undead construct, big ball of bones and spikes. * Slightly less tough than the black mantis but is still a fierce opponent. * Can over...

* All things nautical! River travel in Barsaive. * We covered individual vessels in Episode * Each aropagoi controls a section of the Serpent and its associated tributaries. * Trading cartels that have developed over generations for mutual economic benefit. * Most aropagoi are led by a shivalahala – the political, spiritual, and cultural leader of the entire cartel. * Historical perspective on the...

* Email madness! * We have a YouTube channel. Old episodes being uploaded. * Let us know if you want to help with captions/transcripts! * Email from Brendan: Using talents during Experience Death? * Email from Matthew: Enchanting a group true pattern item? * Replacing or altering parts of a thread item? * Further enchanting of thread items to add additional thread ranks? * Email from Captain Olima...

* Legends Special #6 * Dan narrates tales from Legends of Earthdawn Volume 2: The Book of Exploration * The Lost Kingdom of Lasael * In the Bones of the Earth * Paradise of Swords * Chamber of the Ages Email: edsgpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @EDSGPodcast Josh on Twitter: @LoreMerchant Dan on Twitter: @boice_voice Get product information, developer blogs, and more at www.fasagames.com FASA Games on F...

* High Circle Scout. * Review of the Scout’s focus and role in the game. * Ninth Circle Discipline Ability: Supernal Awareness. * Warden Tier bonuses and Discipline talents. * Warden Tier talent options. * New to the Companion: Critical Hit, Plant Talk, Relentless Recovery * Thirteenth Circle Discipline Ability: One With the World * Master Tier bonuses and Discipline talents. * Master Tier talent...

* Josh reports on GenCon 2022! * Status of various products. * Travel summary – kids’ first flights! * Too much sun at the zoo. * Covid precautions and experience. * GenCon adventure and session reports. * Minimalist preparation and the lessons to be learned from it. * Hiccups and setbacks (and insights from those) * Bad behavior before and during the convention. * Email from Digital Hermit: Updat...