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• Blades in Depth: Bond Breaker

• Lou P. responds to previous Blades episode

• Origin of the interludes.

• Concerns among the writers about the curse.

• Short adventure

• Written by Robin Laws

• Interlude One: Secret of the Runes

• Open-ended, lays groundwork to kick the story into motion.

• Clearly provides what they need to learn and how they can learn it.

• Good use of higher skill test results for additional detail/insight.

• Handy NPC to provide key info if necessary.

• Designed for Journeyman-tier characters.

• Goal: To find Gnanagh to get key information.

• Discussion of notable NPCs and their stats.

• Copper Cauldron and the Wedding Feast

• Early focus on role-playing and interacting with the orks

• First meeting with Gnanagh and activating the curse.

• The assassination attempt on Moschtug and its aftermath.

• Pursuing the Righteous Vipers and Gnanagh.

• The fortress and navigating the conflict.

• Learning the Key Knowledge... and the curse.

• Open-ended resolution, classic Robin Laws structure.

• Solid adventure, but not an introduction to Earthdawn.

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• Sky Point and Vivane Boxed Set

• Josh and Dan's experience (or lack thereof) with the set

• FASA's history with boxed sets

• Overview of the box's contents

• Publication history context

• Not capturing attention or focus

• Barsaive vs Vivane as a region

• Dan's misconceptions

• Sidebar about Earthdawn art

• Vivane "province"?

• Writers for the set

• Overview of locations

• Smaller geographical area but still much open area for GMs to develop

• Perspective on Cara Fahd in the set

• Cara Fahd and Theran slavery

• Connection to Blades collection

• Hildingrist Crest and magical weirdness

• Perspective on Landis

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• Introduction to Blades

• Fantastic adventure collection.

• Example of building story arcs around thread items.

• Strongly aligned with Cara Fahd.

• Using the items will make the game about the ork nation.

• Book structure: Five adventures, each related to one Key Knowledge.

• The Blades' curse and potential pitfalls.

• While a good template, you don't need to go to this extent with all thread items in your game.

• One line summaries of the different adventures.

• Interludes to introduce how the characters learn the first part of each Key Knowledge.

• History of the Blades of Cara Fahd.

• Finding the Blades and Shattered Pattern.

• The Powers of the Blades and number of player characters.

• Deeds and Legend Points.

• GM preparation before running the adventures.

• Item History is helpful, but not required.

• Non-orks and ties to the new Cara Fahd.

• The introductory chapter to the book has good advice on potential player issues.

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• Mailbag!

• GenCon recap

• Email from Chris: Space travelers using magic to travel to Earth?

• Email from Patrick: Alachia, Immortal Elves, and the Books of Harrow

• Email from Konrad: Plans to rework other old adventures for Fourth Edition?

• Email from Matt: Many questions about the Passions?

• Email from Brandon: Any information about old dwarf Kingdoms mentioned in Throal Sourcebook?

• Expanding on undeveloped areas like Landis, Ustrecht, Scavia, etc?

• Sourcebooks on other parts of the world?

• Any information on the Slithering Wastes?

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• Notable Places Within Cara Fahd

• Quick recap of Kickstarter

• Ancient Cara Fahd

• Citadel of Tirthon

• The Hold of Courage

• The t'skrang of Kelpoya

• The Black Quarry

• Lelisthala - Former elf and troll slaves

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• Deeper Secrets: Third and Fourth Circle Nethermancer Spells

• Third Circle Spells

• Animate Spirit Object

• Astral Whisper

• Bone Dance

• Pattern Spike

• Spirit Double

• Discussion and preferences

• Fourth Circle Spells

• Aspect of the Shadow Hunter

• Blood Servitor

• Fatal Food

• Forget Hunger

• Spirit Servant

• Summon Shadow Hunter

• Discussion and preferences

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• Mailbag!

• Not sure what is up with the audio this episode.

• Dance with the Serpent Kickstarter just wrapped

• Plugs for Novel Games and Shadows in the Smoke

• Email from Matt P: Questions about the Books of Harrow

• Email from Phillip: How did wild animals and other creatures survive the Scourge?

• Email from Matt M: Help me understand Friend or Foe?

• Email from Nicholas: Which adventure would you run to feature Earthdawn to new players?

• Blades is awesome, but not the right choice.

• Post-Closing: Trailer for Shadows in the Smoke

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• Current Earthdawn Kickstarter runs through July 8!

• Deeper Secrets: Circle 3 & 4 Illusionist

• Third Circle Spells

• Conceal Tracks

• False Floor

• Hidden Weapons

• Papers, Please

• Time Flies

• Discussion and preferences

• Fourth Circle Spells

• Blazing Fists of Rage

• Drunken Stagger

• False Enchantment

• Friend or Foe

• Puppet Show

• Secret Door

• True Blazing Fists of Rage

• Discussion and preferences

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• Tribes of Cara Fad: More Minor Tribes

• The newest Earthdawn Kickstarter is live!

• New adventure, novel reprints, Legends of Barsaive Vol 2, and more!

• Thunderaxe's Cleavers

• "Tribe" of Sky Raiders and Air Sailors

• Stole a Crystal Raider ship to start Cara Fahd's naval forces.

• The Elf Eaters

• A group of bandits, thugs, and murderers in the southern jungles.

• Loosely allied with Zarass, causing problems with Landis.

• The Two-Hands Tribe

• Former rivals that put aside their differences to get land.

• Have a small population of humans among them that are considered equals.

• The Namdroth

• Secretive society of orks from a kaer in the Delaris Mountains

• Supposedly have the original prohpehcy of the Mahuta

• Very devoted to Krathis Gron, but not acting at her direction.

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• Deeper Secrets: Third and Fourth Circle Shaman

• Third Circle Spells

• Autumnal Bear

• Creeping Viper

• Crow's Affinity

• Eagle's Bearing

• Flash of Insight

• Invigorate

• Invoke Falcon Dive

• Wake the Sun

• Discussion and preferences

• Fourth Circle Spells

• Awaken

• Bioluminescence

• Invoke Hedgehog Nip

• Mark of the Crane

• Meerkat Estate

• Octopus Snare

• Share Senses

• Discussion and preferences

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• Mailbag!

• Tariff talk

• Josh is in another play!

• Email from Dean the Machine: Any plans for Cathay?

• Email from Tibor: Thanks for the podcast!

• Group pattern for the Throalic Army?

• Email from Paul: Campaign tales!

• Email from Justin: Upcoming Roll20 materials?

• News about the upcoming Legends of Barsaive: Haven Vol 2

• Email from Michael: What's the deal with dwarf sword game stats?

• Email from Brian: Inventory spell and ChatGPT

• Extensive discussion about LLM "tools" like ChatGPT

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• Minor Tribes of Cara Fahd, Part One

• Smaller groups and tribes

• Righteous Vipers

• Led by Orguk.

• They also appear in the Blades collection.

• Only 50 or so warriors.

• Allied with the Fists of Fahd through marriage, but relations are strained.

• Live in the Delaris foothills, raiders and more "traditional" ork scorchers.

• Orguk is desperate to make alliances and build power, has been making overtures to Zarass Icethought.

• Useful as low-stakes antagonists and rivals, not significant movers and shakers.

• Having some difficulties dealing with the changes in Cara Fahd and how it hinders their traditional lifestyle.

• Henkar's Spears

• Group of orks that lived in southern jungles.

• Recently got new chieftan, Henkar, a Swordmaster from Travar.

• Welcomed "city orks" from other parts of Barsaive to join a "traditional" Carad culture.

• Grown from around 300 to over 1000 members, tribe is becoming more prosperous.

• No cavalry; they are premier source of infantry for Cara Fahd.

• Cosmopolitan, an example of what Krathis is trying to achieve with Cara Fahd.

• Potential conflict with more traditionalist tribes as they have grown.

• Thunderborn Cavalry

• Lives along the Greenheart River.

• About 600 members, 100 cavalry that ride dyre.

• Very close cultural bonds with dyre; more than just mounts.

• Raids into Vivane province.

• Sworn oath of mutual aid with the Thunderers tribe.

• Building their value as a cavalry force for coming conflict with Thera.

• Uses for minor tribes in a Cara Fahd game.

• Continued variety and detail fleshing out the ork nation.

• Traditional tribes each dealing with the new situation in different ways.

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• Deeper Secrets: Wizard Spells Circle Three and Four

• Third Circle Spells

• Fulcrum

• Addressing a listener question about the spell.

• Makeshift Missile

• Mental Library

• Shatter Lock

• Silence Objects

• Temporary Erase

• Discussion and top picks.

• Fourth Circle Spells

• Etch and Sketch

• Icy Protection

• Inventory

• Mystic Vines

• Sanctuary

• Stick Together

• Discussion and top picks.

• Mystic Vines versus Binding Threads

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• Tribes of Cara Fahd: Fists of Fahd

• Ruled by Moschtug who claims to be the true King of Cara Fahd

• Claims descent from Cathon Grimeye.

• First appeared in the adventure collection Blades.

• Similar to Zarass's Chargers, Moschtug is set up as an antagonist.

• More canny than Zarass but still a warlord.

• Resents the presence of the new arrivals and their domination of the area.

• Self-important, egotistical, convinced with ork purity.

• Controls Copper Cauldron, an important resource for Cara Fahd.

• Trapped by his own narrative; ambitions ran into Krathis Gron.

• Was a big fish in a small pond, but now the pond is much bigger.

• Is on the council because of the importance of Copper Cauldron.

• His ego and self-importance could make him easily manipulated.

• Not a threat like Zarass, but could cause problems.

• Could be a source of comic relief in Cara Fahd politics.

• Still a tough character; strong Cavalryman.

• Ideas on bringing Moschtug into games.

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• A ream of email from the mailbag!

• From the Discord: Stealthy Stride, duration, and narrative context.

• Email from Eli: Comments about production quality.

• Question about FreedoniaCon.

• Urupa book is in development.

• Metaplot comments.

• Josh's Gencon adventures?

• Legend of Earthdawn podcast still running?

• Attacking an illusion and sensing tests.

• Why didn't Horrors kill everything in the astral during the low magic period?

• Email from Allan: Follow-up tale from the table about group pattern and Horror marks.

• Best stats to ask for Creature Analysis/Call of Harrow?

• Do Defensive Stance penalties apply to Damage rolls?

• Weaponsmiths and thread weapons/armor?

• Interaction of Sprint and Great Leap?

• Battle Bellow penalties?

• Josh's favorite Nethermancer spells?

• Neat rules from earlier editions we use at our table?

• Avoiding getting bogged down in combat at higher Circles?

• Email from Chris: Weaving threads into a song?

• Creating astral storage boxes as thread items?

• Troll clans in other mountain ranges?

• Illusionist slowing down or stopping a curse?

• Email from Michael: Surviving descendants of House T'kambras returning from Theran slavery?

• Wilderness Survival for specific terrain/environment types?

• Comments about actual conditions in jungles.

• Email from Rasmus: Updates on upcoming product releases?

• Email from Ted: The Alarm spell and Disarm Trap.

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• Tribes of Cara Fahd: Zarass's Chargers

• First tribe set up as potential antagonists

• Led by Zarass Icethought

• Deals with family dynamics and weird magic.

• Zarass is daughter of Terath the Contemplative.

• She joined Cara Fahd against her father's wishes.

• Terath's Chargers work for Throal, he thought highly of Varulus.

• Zarass's older brother Earal is enamored of Throal.

• Terath is not fully aware of conflict between his children.

• Zarass is bitter and a strong believer in the superiority of Cara Fahd.

• Would act against Krathis Gron if she makes a treaty with Throal.

• Obsessed with ruin found in southern jungles.

• Other perspectives that ruin is a bad place.

• Getaft Allthought sees Zarass as a potential, but not current, threat.

• He believes she could be easily manipulated to cause trouble for Cara Fahd.

• Information on the ruins: Citadel settled by Landisian citizens and their ork slaves.

• Site of a battle between Dis and Lochost that killed all the residents.

• Ruins are severely cursed; astral space is corrupted.

• Lifting the curse is a potential high Circle objective.

• Zarass's tribe is less about a different slant on ork culture, more setting up hooks for future problems in Cara Fahd.

• Discussion of Zarass as a character. Potentially set up as a tragic character.

• Closing thoughts.

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• Earthdawn Shards: Tear for Jaspree

• Novice-tier adventure.

• Hired to accompany a tailor's assistant.

• Adventure revolves around espagra.

• Premise presents some nice world building detail.

• Broader context that isn't necessary, but is appreciated.

• Encounter with young espagra.

• Shrine to Jaspree and white espagra.

• Attack by brigands hunting the espagra.

• Town of Safeway and the missing tanner.

• Assistance from a questor of Jaspree.

• Rescuing the tanner and dealing with the brigands.

• Town is useful but not critical to the adventure.

• Solid adventure with good themes and throughlines.

• Discussion of thread dagger included in the adventure.

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• Mailbag!

• Josh catches us up with the production.

• Email from Michael: Elementalist spell idea.

• Feedback on why Flameweapon doesn't work on arrows.

• From Joel: Only 3 councilors in Travar

• More from Michael : Weaponsmiths and downtime.

• From Cobrasai: Thanks for connection with Foundry team.

• Healing potions and the "bonus" Step 8 test.

• From Eli: Horrors targeting other netherworlds? Elemental planes? Land of the Dead?

• Ideas for teaching Earthdawn to new players?

• Pregenerated characters?

• What happens to Death's Sea when the magic level is low?

• Ideas about the Ivory Codex.

• Where to find info about Aardelea?

• Namegiver cross-breeding?

• Adjusting difficulty for small groups (2 or 3 characters)?

• Organizations that help those emerging from kaers?

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• Tribes of Cara Fahd: Rejruk's Foxes

• The first "indigenous" tribe we've encountered.

• All chiefs take the Name Rejruk.

• Live in Gevosht, a planned community.

• Don't have high opinions of the other tribes.

• Very small force - maybe 50 mounted warriors.

• Located between the Iron Fist and Broken Fang lands.

• Scouts and couriers; focus on speed and stealth.

• Rite of adulthood; emphasis on patience and focus.

• Train in varied terrain so they can function anywhere.

• Historical need for mounted messengers and couriers.

• Krathis and Titanstroke recognize the value of the Foxes.

• "Town orks," not nomadic the way the other tribes we have discussed.

• Gevosht is your stereotypical "fantasy starter town"

• Little sidebar commentary.

• Discussion of some tribe-specific magic and gear in the back of the Cara Fahd book.

• "Keepers of Secrets"

• Practical folk, another twist on ork society.

• Commentary about variety and no "one true way" for things to be.

• Both Dan and Josh are fans of this tribe.

• Image of Cavalryman mounts charging in to aid their riders.

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• Welcome to 2025!

• Production schedule for the next few weeks.

• FreedoniaCon: February 21-23

• Kickstarter fulfillment

• Earthdawn Shards: Betrayal's Sting

• Journeyman tier adventure

• Less structured, more free-form design.

• Part 1: Something That Might Interest You

• Primary goal is to motivate characters to travel.

• Easily adapted to other campaign circumstances.

• Part 2: Who Are You? What Do You Want?

• Meeting traveling merchant.

• True "hook" for the adventure.

• Investigation into what's going on.

• Appreciation for the chapter's Troubleshooting section.

• Part 3: The Madman's Diary

• Finding and fighting the Enrager; a Horror construct.

• Locations provided; ways to track it down.

• Different paths to find the answer.

• Unrelated adventure hooks; small sandbox area.

• Following up on the adventure.

• Closing thoughts.

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• Tribes of Cara Fahd: The Thunderers

• Astrologically-inclined tribe.

• Emerged from their kaer during a storm.

• Adapted and changed from raiding to trade and mercenary service.

• More spiritual bent; influence from their shared experience.

• Are not family-exclusive. Open to other orks joining them.

• Significant portion of their tribe are cavalry.

• Overview of Thunderer training.

• Forces organized around "cerri" -- small, tight-knit groups.

• Adept cerri frequently swear oaths and form group patterns.

• Elite forces, but not egotistical about it. Much respect from other tribes.

• Very organized, routine-oriented tribe.

• Feelings of obsidiman or troll spirituality to the Thunderers.

• "Strong, silent types."

• Questors are rare; they honor them all (thirteen) in turn.

• Association with Cara Fahd

• Waited for sign to join Krathis Gron... and got it.

• Have adapted again, settling in to Cara Fahd as their home.

• Current chief is Krathis Gron's primary military advisor.

• True believers, but not as dramatic about it.

• Speculation on the Thunderers' role in the Second Theran War.

• Rebuilding the ruins of an old Cara Fahd city - New Revalk

• Influential members of the Thunderers.

• Clever twist/deconstruction on the stereotypical ork tribe.

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• Ending the year with an email episode!

• Whoops! This should have gone out last week. Sorry.

• Email from Patrick: Reach out to him about the Earthdawn Foundry modules!

• Question about the orichalcum "orbs" (aka "loci")

• Email from Tim: Moving more than standard movement rate?

• Discussion of a couple possible interpretations of the question.

• Movement cap on Great Leap?

• Multiple "things" as a single thread item.

• Discussing the Blades of Cara Fahd, Lightning Bolt Earrings.

• Group patterns are weird!

• Email from Jay: Story about finding Earthdawn, introducing new players!

• Tale from the table about The Search for Wisdom/Runvir's Tomb

• Durability from multiple Disciplines. (Highest applies)

• Karma pool for multi-Discipline characters. (Highest Circle counts)

• Harvesting parts from creatures? Applicable skills and rolls?

• Timing of combat options? How do they fit into the combat round?

• Is initiative an "Action test"?

• Do group threads count toward the maximum thread limit?

• Being a member of multiple group true patterns?

• Talent rank increases from thread items and how they affect duration, etc.

• Resources for faster answers to your rules questions!

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• Tribes of Cara Fahd: Asok's Armbreakers

• New tribe founded alongside Cara Fahd.

• Broke off from Herok's Lancers.

• Tale is five "songs" composed by the founder, Asok.

• Herok denied Krathis Gron's claim and declined following her.

• Herok killed a family that was leaving to follow her.

• Asok's gahad triggered, challenged the chief.

• Stirring speech in front of the tribe.

• Invoked the Passions and used his Troubadour magic.

• Approximately one third of the Lancers followed Asok.

• Followers mostly women, children, and civilians; only a few hundred fighters.

• Settle in Claw Ridge and call it home. Declines tribal lands.

• Devoted to Krathis, act as militia for Claw Ridge.

• Tribe of "true believers" in comparison to Metal Fist and Broken Fang.

• Herok has sworn vengeance on Asok and Cara Fahd. Potential threat.

• Potential source of inside intel about Claw Ridge and the nation's situation.

• Great presentation; written as a bit of epic poetry.

• More nuance to the varied cultures making up the new nation.

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• Earthdawn Shards: The Flames of Avarice

• Books and stuff are at our distributor and should be on their way soon.

• Josh has run this adventure; vague memories.

• Novice-tier, features a magician's retreat near the Scarlet Sea.

• Might be difficult to relocate, unless you're willing to hand-wave.

• Some adventure background.

• Tears of the Dead - orks exiled from Cara Fahd.

• Attack on an inn/waystation, PCs come upon the aftermath.

• Raiders will be returning; defend the location.

• Fight should not be difficult.

• Map to the raiders' base, track them back to deal with them.

• Motivating the group to follow the orks.

• Encounters on the way.

• Dealing with the orks; not much guidance in the text.

• Opening and exploring the magician's retreat.

• Thread item treasure at the end; Staff of Avanthus

• Backstory to the retreat; setup for campaign antagonist.

• Dichotomy between the scale of the adventure and the campaign seeds.

• Extra stuff feels strange; too much garnish/fluff/glitter.

• Josh's opinion of the adventure shifts as time goes on.

• Discussion of the Staff of Avanthus

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• Tribes of Cara Fahd: Broken Fang

• Josh repeats praise for world building.

• Broken Fang: Claims to have never lost a battle.

• Founding of the tribe.

• Claims Krathis is descended from Hrak Gron and their forbear.

• Details of tale insight into people; not really "history".

• Oral tradition and the lineage of cultural belief.

• More claims the clan makes to tie themselves to Cara Fahd.

• Limits of our modern perspective and authenticity of in-setting point of view.

• Fourteen clans; nine heroic, five of the Passions.

• Back to the Metal Fist and connections to the Passions.

• Discussion of Broken Fang clan divisions and culture.

• Overview of Passion Clans.

• More tribal traditions and practices.

• Multiple tribal claims to the "true way" of orks.

• Leaders and prominent personalities.

• Discussion about the differences and similarities between the Metal Fist and Broken Fang.

• Cara Fahd is a nation... that isn't quite there yet.

• What if something happens to Krathis Gron?

• Old ways versus new.

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• Earthdawn Shards: Tournament Troubles

• Josh and Dan are on Bluesky!

• Josh talks about prep levels in play.

• This adventure can be enhanced with material from the Travar sourcebook.

• Journeyman-tier adepts; some prep and experience is required.

• Quick overview of the Founding Tournament

• Early adventure plotline involves activity around the tournament.

• Politics and intrigue between different candidates.

• Culmination of the adventure is the tournament itself; players may compete.

• Some media inspirations; espionage/heist/maguffin tales.

• Healthy amount of role playing and investigation; not much action until the end.

• Heist against the Body of Five.

• Outside interests.

• Climax: The Tournament.

• Overview of challenges provided in the adventure.

• Keeping pacing up by limiting die rolling.

• Rival adept groups past and future.

• Decent amount of room for customization.

• Good capstone to a campaign arc, or starting a new one.

• Make sure the player characters are down for this type of political adventure.

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• You can catch Josh on the Novel Games podcast!

• Tribes of Cara Fahd: Metal Fist

• Largest tribe in Cara Fahd; led by Bronze Eyes

• Differences (or lack of) between first and third edition versions

• Origin legend of the Metal Fist

• Djoto; the Metal Fist way of life

• Another example of cultural tradition and self-justification

• In-text call outs from chieftan's daughter.

• Summary of the ten points of Djoto

• More musing about culture and how authentic it feels

• Population and family traditions of the Metal Fist clans

• Cultural relics; the clan chiefs each have a metal gauntlet thread item

• Upbringing and training of the clan's youth

• More commentary from Tresseg about some drawbacks of clan traditions

• Bronze Eyes; Metal Fist chieftan

• Tresseg, Trajak of the Broken Fangs, and their daughter -- heir to both tribes

• Rivalry between the tribes, and lack of monolithic culture

• Lots of seeds for story hooks or future developments

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• We're back from hiatus!

• Quick bit of catching-up.

• Returning to the mailbag.

• Email from Michael: Deliberately increasing a spirit's Strength Rating?

• Shield Bash (talent) and Shield Drive (knack)

• Air Speaking praise!

• Intimidating Bellow (Knack) versus Battle Bellow (talent)

• Email from Walter: Tales from the Table about "Kept in the Dark"

• Email from Mark: Returning to Earthdawn!

• Contacting residents of sealed kaers from outside.

• Email from Simon: Support for virtual table tops (especially Foundry)?

• More email from Michael: Interaction of Forge Weapon and thread item damage bonuses.

• Versatile spellcasting with a "loaned" spell matrix item.

• Forge Weapon and "personal" adjustment; why forged weapons aren't effectively overrunning the setting.

• Josh talks about the GM as ultimate adjudicator of when/what kind of rolls are called for and what is possible.

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Josh has wrapped production on the local theater project he was involved with, but the Survival Guide will still be on hiatus for a couple of weeks until a new episode is recorded and released.

In the meantime, here's the "Introductions" episode for an actual play podcast project Josh is involved with. "Novel Games" is created and produced by Susan Quintana, looking to release short campaigns dedicated to various independent TTRPGs.

The first game is Apocalypse Keys, and the first story arc has been released in full. The show is still making its way out to the various platforms, but you can visit I'm such a dummy. There's the show link. https://shows.acast.com/novel-games to listen or download episodes directly.

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• Reminder: The Survival Guide will be on hiatus until November!

• Coming at some point in the future, Josh is in an Actual Play!

• Deeper Secrets: Nethermancer Spells

• First Circle

• Detect Undead

• Preserve

• Putrefy

• Spirit Labor

• Undead Struggle

• Top choices and First Circle spells from earlier editions

• Second Circle

• Animate Skeleton

• Death Trance

• Netherlight

• Sculpt Darkness

• Translator Spirit

• Top choices and Second Circle spells from earlier editions

• Final discussion and commentary

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• Good news: Josh has been cast in a local show!

• Bad news: Survival Guide going on hiatus until November.

• Send us emails or suggestions for future topics!

• Journey to Lang

• Introductory adventure by Lou Prosperi

• First Earthdawn adventure

• Straightforward, no complex mystery or twists.

• Plot summary.

• Hired to travel to find what has befallen the village of Lang.

• T'skrang riverboat ride, first tests.

• Travel to village; clues and an encounter.

• At the village; encounter with cadaver men.

• Meeting the surviving villagers.

• Defeating the corrupted obsidimen.

• Introduces many key themes and concepts of Earthdawn.

• Early adventures as a template for typical stories in the game.

• Excellent for a first-time Earthdawn GM.

• Little room to wander off the map, great for new players.

• Difficulty of combat encounters.

• Possible hooks for follow-up adventures.

• Comparison to airboat scenes in Terror in the Skies.

• Final thoughts.

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• Deeper Secrets: Illusionist Spells!

• First Circle Spells

• Bellow of the Thundras

• Light Show

• Pauper's Purse

• Phantom Astral Spear

• Phantom Crow Tear

• Rope Guide

• Warning Signal

• Spell Discussion

• Second Circle Spells

• And Their Money

• Billowing Cloak

• Chicanery

• Impossible Knot

• Phantom Liquid Arrow

• Remove Shadow

• Tailor

• What happened to old spells?

• Analysis and Discussion

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• Diving into the mailbag!

• YouTube comments and restructuring of video releases.

• Official FASA Games podcast recording Thursdays in the Discord.

• Email from Walter: Caught up on the podcast! What now?

• Email from Anthony: Fatigue and sleeping in armor.

• Some design and playtest insights.

• Email from Patrick: Questions about Life Light spell.

• Found in Deeper Secrets, page 138.

• Probably not meant to move with the caster.

• Email from Jesse: Windlings in Blood Wood?

• Size and shape of riverboats?

• Size of the Floating City?

• Discussion of underlying game world math and maps.

• Blood Elves and the Outcast Path.

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• Earthdawn Adventure Shards: Kept in the Dark

• Dan has run this one, Josh hasn't.

• Expedition into the Servos.

• Written by Gary Bowerbank

• Coincidence of name "Akarem" from Mists of Betrayal

• NPC employers.

• Highlights the dangers of wilderness travel.

• Possible error with troajin in place of crojen.

• Broad event overview.

• Tonal shift in second half of adventure.

• Variety of encounters; mix of role-play and possible combat.

• If... then statements that steer the story.

• Theran hunting party.

• Ruined temple.

• Options for heading out of the jungle and consequences.

• Lots of things going on, several choices.

• Analysis and discussion.

• Solid adventure design; multiple paths.

• Good introductory/low Circle adventure.

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• Josh is back from GenCon!

• GenCon recap and review.

• New Earthdawn products!

• Other games played.

• Deeper Secrets: Shaman Spells

• Recapping Elementalist and Wizard spells from previous editions.

• First Circle Spells

• Alter Tracks

• Animal Friendship

• Recap of Pack and Spirit keywords

• Badger Mettle

• Cetacean Breathing

• Hungry Like the Wolf

• Pack Mule

• Woodland Helpers

• Thoughts and commentary.

• Second Circle Spells

• Bear's Sleep

• Bleeding Edge

• Hair Frenzy

• Invoke Turtle Snap

• Invoke Wolf Maim

• Porcupine Quills

• Tiger Roar

• Thoughts and commentary.

• This year's GenCon pregens.

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• Earthdawn Adventures: The Search for Wisdom

• aka "Runvir's Tomb"

• Question from the Discord about setting it in Parlainth.

• Good introductory adventure.

• Differences between original version and RedBrick update.

• Connection with Kratas and Garlthik One-Eye.

• Former Kingdom of Ustrect.

• Likely reasons for Third Edition rework.

• Plot overview: Getting the Job.

• Travel the Runvir's Tomb.

• Encounter with Crystal Raiders.

• Exploring the Tomb.

• Potential backstory issues.

• Josh talks about broader development concerns.

• Skarvik, The Horror that haunts the tomb.

• Magical treasures.

• The Oracle Fountain and potential campaign concerns.

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• Deeper Secrets: Elementalist Spells

• Spell comparison between fourth edition and earlier editions.

• Circle and Discipline shuffling.

• First Circle Spells

• Dry and Wet

• Ignite

• Repair

• Room Temperature

• Smoke Cloud

• Second Circle Spells

• Balloons of Mist

• Fire Whip

• Grounding

• Liquid Arrow

• Throne of Air

• Discussion and preferences.

• Carrying somebody else with Throne of Air?

• Wrap up.

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• Throal Adventures: The Way Out

• aka Westhrall's Passage

• Josh shares a memory from when he ran the adventure.

• By Sean Rhodes who also wrote Serpent River and the t'skrang chapter of the Denizens book.

• Map fragment uncovered of the river tunnels below the Kingdom.

• Straightforward exploration adventure.

• Raft travel and navigation, underground survival, long-term journey.

• "Milestones" along the journey, encounters, rhythm of travel.

• Journey is part of the experience and shouldn't be skipped.

• Arrival in the Great Dome and encountering the Pale Ones.

• Characters must deal with the local problem to complete their expedition.

• Mining camp with enslaved Pale Ones run by one of the exiled Throalic noble families.

• The opposition, dealing with the camp, and the consequences.

• High marks, feels like it has a lot going on despite the page count.

• Characters need to deal with the problem, no easy backup.

• Linear, but flexible when resolving the final obstacle.

• Some room to expand earlier stretch of the expedition.

• Final thoughts.

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• Deeper Secrets: First and Second Circle Wizard.

• Overview thoughts from Josh.

• Number of spells compared to earlier editions.

• What returning and new spells are there?

• What spells are still missing?

• First Circle Spells

• Perimeter Alarm

• Seal

• Travelog

• Triangulate

• Volume Control

• Wake Up Call

• Second Circle Spells

• Astral Flare

• Clean

• Entry Log

• Makeshift Weapon

• Search

• Sterilize

• Closing discussion

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• Throal Adventures: Deep Trouble.

• Also known as "Blackout" in the RedBrick rerelease.

• The only adventure in the collection with a Horror.

• Cloak-and-Dagger style introduction as a vetting process.

• No direct politics, but there are potential political consequences.

• Rival groups serving other parties that may work at cross-purposes.

• Earthquakes below the city of Hustane, two scouting parties have vanished.

• Rivals working to dig up dirt on Hustane's Baroness.

• Watched during prep, then venture into the tunnels below the city.

• Thoughts on updating the adventure to "present day".

• Underground environments, critters, and rival parties.

• The Horror: Emr'r'ko

• Biggest obstacle: The Horror's darkness power

• Despite political concerns, straightforward delve.

• Possible conclusions based on what happened with the other groups.

• The Horror's curse and possible sequels.

• Other possible tweaks for a completed Hustane to establish stakes.

• High marks for a short, direct adventure with potential consequences.

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• Mailbag!

• YouTube comment from Caroline Spector

• Question from Skreng: Population percentage of adepts?

• Blog post about adept populations: https://fasagames.com/earthdawn/adept-populations/

• Email from Saint Bless: Suggestions for future episodes.

• More about the war between the Serpent River t'skrang and Wyrm Wood?

• What is known about that war in the Shadowrun era?

• "Post-Hanto" drakes, The Vanishing Scholar and using thread items?

• Emails from Will: Tales from the table! Old adventures in ED4.

• Movement discrepancies when comparing first to fourth edition?

• Changes to Barsaive at War and the time jump to Empty Thrones?

• Short stories at the front of adventures?

• Possible explanation of Lake Ban having multiple outlets?

• Sidebar: The Marvel No-Prize

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• Shosara: The Free Companies

• An easy way to get characters involved with Shosara.

• Adepts and mercenaries hired by Shosara soon after the Separation.

• Developed into a more formal military structure.

• Headquarters is the Grand Arsenal at the southern end of Shosara's Harbor.

• Led by the Grand Captain, who has a seat on the Council of Princes.

• Leveraged their position or that seat to have a say in the nation's leadership.

• Most settlements have a militia rather than a formal fighting force.

• Free Companies serve as formal army and navy.

• Patrol trade routes and serve as city guard in Shosara.

• Large contingent of Weaponsmiths to supply their forces.

• Often dispatched to address mysteries and problems brought before the Council.

• May hire freelance adepts to investigate these when official forces are not available.

• Other freelance and mercenary work available through them.

• An organization Player Characters are likely to work with or for in Shosara.

• Current Grand Captain Damira Alessar

• Dwarf responsible for arrangements with the Trisrora ranelle.

• Concerned with national security and safety, not so much in elven politics.

• Not concerned with personal political power.

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• Grand Bazaar and Deeper Secrets both available in PDF!

• Kickstarter Backers have had their codes sent.

• Deeper Secrets is big! 624 pages including index.

• Throal Adventures: Purloined Provisions

• Also released as the Shard "Pale River" by RedBrick

• Designed for low Journeyman characters.

• Like Parlainth Adventures, a collection of shorter, more straightforward scenarios.

• Adventures all deal with traditional adventure/exploration.

• Little direct interaction with Throalic society or politics.

• Setup: Merchants in Grand Bazaar have been having their stalls looted.

• Characters are hired to keep an eye out.

• Encounter between pale ones and Throalic guards.

• Characters follow the thieves into the tunnels deep below the Kingdom.

• Learn the village is struggling because the river has dried up.

• Venture upstream to investigate and solve the problem.

• Combat encounters with stingers and shadowmants.

• Cave trolls have dammed the river with an elemental to farm True water.

• Likely combat with the trolls, and need to deal with the elemental.

• Possible complications and side goals.

• Fourth Circle updates and approaches.

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• The Western Kingdoms: The Founding Ranelles

• GenCon news! Earthdawn events.

• Learning to work with Josh's brain.

• Total eclipse discussion.

• Quick recap of the founding ranelles.

• Escalanas = Mystic, Fensalor = Physical, Trisrora = Social

• The Escalanas Ranelle

• Long dedication to research into the mystic arts.

• First matriarch and the founding of Sereatha.

• Distant relationship with the Escalanas ranelle in Blood Wood.

• Not thrilled with Blood Wood, but may support efforts to end the Ritual of Thorns.

• Post Scourge activity; expeditions and research into the Wastes.

• Fewest, but most loyal gerryth in the Western Kingdoms.

• Using the Escalanas ranelle in adventures and campaigns.

• Current matriarch.

• The Fensalor Ranelle

• Founding and background

• More self-interested and orthodox.

• Had the most gerryth survive.

• Not as concerned with consortis role.

• Current focus; rebuilding infrastructure of the Gwydenro.

• Making Sereatha new seat of Elvendom not top priority.

• Growing trade relationship with Thera.

• Using the Fensalor in adventures and campaigns.

• Current patriarch.

• The Trisrora Ranelle

• Founding and background.

• Similarities to Throal as a mercantile power.

• Current focus and cultural philosophy.

• Relationship with Iopos.

• Current matriarch.

• Using the Trisrora in adventures in the campaigns.

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• Earthdawn Adventures: Shattered Pattern

• Send us your questions if you have them!

• Stands alone, but does involve an item found in Infected.

• Pattern items as a maguffin or plot driver.

• PCs hired to solve the mystery of their employer's identity.

• Journeyman-tier adventure -- Recommended Circles Five to Seven.

• Technically non-linear, but presents most likely order of events.

• Features the Cult of the Great Hunter.

• Initial clues: amulet, coins, and map, employer's pattern.

• Mainly set in area along the Serpent River South Reach.

• Broad plot summary; travel and sites.

• Adventure background and primary antagonist, Tyrlaan.

• Location 1: Ruined Temple

• Location 2: Kaer Varenna

• Joran the Shadow Hunter

• Location 3: Tyrlaan's Lair

• Adventure climax and conclusion.

• Major rewards: A favor from Icewing, Blades of Cara Fahd.

• Solid adventure with strong Earthdawn flavor.

• Possible follow-up or sequel ideas.

• Fourth edition timeline and stat updates?

• Possible pitfalls and final thoughts.

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• The Western Kingdoms

• A little bit of background of the Elven Nations book.

• The placement of the Western Kingdoms and relation to Sereatha.

• Overview of the western kingdom's political structure.

• Individual domains each ruled by a ranelle, called a gerryth.

• Collectively called the Gwydenro, or "heartland".

• The founding ranelles of the western kingdoms.

• The legend of Sereatha's founding.

• Ancient past, relationship to Wyrm Wood.

• Tales developed to justify the way things are.

• How the tales lead to Shosara's heresy.

• Providing monarchs for the Rose Throne.

• Lots of BS called out in this episode!

• Josh's headcanon of elven high court politics.

• The Orichalcum Wars and the Scourge.

• Emergence after the Scourge and Sereatha's fate.

• Reactions to the Blood Wood and Shosaran reconciliation.

• The Roheline Wood and the Wastes.

• Present-day political situation in Sereatha.

• Sereatha's orthodoxy and the strength of cultural narrative.

• The three-sided political struggle over the fate of elvendom.

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• Mailbag episode!

• Lou provided some insight into other pieces written by Sam Witt

• Aleyn sent us a bunch of adventure journals!

• We talk about character journals back in the day.

• Email from Brendan: Penalties for sleeping in armor?

• Josh suggests: Reducing recovery tests by the Initiative Penalty.

• How long to put on armor? Related somehow to Physical Armor rating?

• Email from Kenneth: House rules for thread weaving/spell casting.

• Spell casting "cantrip" knacks and extra threads.

• Legend Point cost for spells and the thinking behind it.

• Email from Stefan: Enchanting Deep Dive.

• Player perspective vs GM perspective.

• Mechanics vs story.

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• Parlainth Adventures: Threads

• Return to form; facing a Horror threat.

• Higher challenge.

• Roots lie in Parlainth's history and is now threatening Haven.

• Does not require as much established NPC relationships as earlier adventures.

• Can benefit from some foreshadowing and build-up.

• Hired to investigate escalting violence in Haven.

• Fairly linear, can run into "mystery adventure" problems.

• Some guidance into how the adepts can notice weird magic.

• Not so much about the investigation, just following the thread to the cause.

• How these adventures sidestep the "investigation" phase.

• Some ideas for expanding the early stages.

• Excursion into the ruins.

• The Cult of Pain and what has gone before.

• The Abomination and its plans.

• "Kaer crawl" in the Western Catacombs.

• Analyzing the Horror's stat block.

• Linear and traditional, but not bad for it.

• Sidebar about mystery and investigation plots.

• Gumshoe, Brindlewood Bay, and Apocalypse Keys.

• Levels of success on Perception tests.

• Final thoughts.

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• Shosara: Navolok Ranelle

• Foil or rival to the Laryskova.

• Focused on helping adopt non-elven ideas.

• Not concerned with the opinion of the Elven Court.

• Internal dynamic of the "liberal" elven nation.

• Enough information to inform, not too much to overwhelm.

• More willing to share titles and promote non-elves.

• Remained behind after the Separation where the Laryskova left.

• Forging identity as Shosarans.

• Name is a human word; declaring independence from the Court.

• Did much to grow and establish the nation and its political structure.

• Cultural friction with the Laryskova due to differing objectives.

• Only a third of the ranelle are elves.

• Post-Scourge history and activities.

• "Radicals" from an elven perspective.

• Changes to the elven Wheel philosophy.

• Support of arts and culture.

• Grand Prince Zinoviy

• Takes some inspiration from Throal's Council Compact.

• Thinking of nominating a human as his successor.

• Final thoughts.

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• Parlainth Adventures: Desire Box

• Lighthearted adventure; Josh thinks it's "a hoot"

• Potential farce, funniest of the Parlainth Adventures.

• Most easily transported to another location.

• Slow build to a frenetic conclusion.

• Premise: Politics, Archiana Smoothskin, and Torgak.

• The Desire Box: Chorrolis-infused artifact from the ruins.

• For best effect, requires relationships in Haven.

• Planning and forethought on the GM's part.

• Not much GM guidance on the conclusion.

• More possible adventure prep.

• Final resolution; appearance of a Passion.

• Expanding the ways PCs might solve the mystery ahead of time.

• Dan talks about his experiences with the adventure.

• Contrasting writing and design styles.

• Playing with expectations.

• Embrace the weird!

• Rare example of an actual Passion being involved in a published adventure.

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• Shosara: The Laryskova Ranelle

• Kickstarter for the next expansion for Aetherstream is live!

• The ranelle inspired by Jaspree to travel north, founding Shosara.

• Shosara might not exist if not for the pilgrimage.

• Largest single political power in Shosara.

• Prefer trade and diplomacy over military force.

• Ranelle's main objective is to move the seat of the court to Shosara.

• History of the Laryskova and the Court in Wyrm Wood.

• The ranelle tends to act more quickly than traditional elven ranelles.

• Due to history, don't want to just go their own way; still elven culture.

• Balancing act between elven tradition and innovation.

• Natural explorers and merchants.

• Common Disciplines among the ranelle's adepts.

• Relationship with Thera and broader political philosophy.

• Patron of magical and scholarly research, artistic pursuits.

• Close-knit and loyal family.

• Grand Prince Beranis Laryskova.

• Oak Heart as the key to becoming the new Elven Court.

• Wrap up.

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• The Capital City of Shosara

• Shosara's approach to traditional elven philosophy.

• Overview of the city layout.

• Great Lighthouse - North end of the bay.

• Seat of magical study and scholariship.

• Symbol of knowledge as light and guidance.

• Berths for airships.

• Grand Arsenal - South end of the bay.

• Keep, smithies, armory.

• Base for the Free Companies

• Dockside - Along the shore between the Lighthouse and Arsenal.

• Busy district with inns, shops, residences.

• Large central market with shrine to Chorrolis.

• Old City - East of Dockside; inland.

• Government offices and palace.

• Wealthy merchants and fancier residences.

• Basic overview of the city government.

• Garden District - East of the Old City.

• Estates of the Shosaran ranelles.

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• Diving into the mailbag!

• Panels from FreedoniaCon 2024 are available on the FASA Games YouTube channel

• Email from Rob: Update on actual play podcasts.

• Declaration phase at start of each round.

• Bringing on other GMs to answer questions?

• Email from Leamon: Kaer breached and survived?

• Battle Shout: Increased DN based on target, or the talent user?

• Non-adept humans and Versatility? Learn skills more easily?

• Story time! Character death and consequences.

• Josh sidebars about obsidiman sky raiders and air sailors.

• Email from Konrad: Any restrictions on armor for magicians?

• Thoughts about using Generative AI for personal use?

• Josh rants about art and late stage capitalism.

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• Parlainth Adventures: Dead Man's Hand

• Written by Robin Laws

• Features Twiceborn, Queen of the Cadaver Folk

• More darkly whimsical.

• Early Tim Burton, Addams Family

• Works best with the characters having a previously established relationship with an NPC.

• Agreement between Torgak and Twiceborn

• Inciting Event: The Carnival of the Dead.

• Stuff to see and do at the Carnival.

• Friendly NPC loses a wager and gets taken down to the Catacombs.

• Different approaches to rescue the friend.

• A coup is brewing!

• Choosing which side to support.

• Outcomes and consequences.

• Influences and inspirations.

• Another likely one-session scenario.

• Solid option to flesh out a Legends of Barsaive home campaign.

• But keep in mind how it might affect Ch 9, Once Bitten, Twiceborn.

• Presents a non-standard adventure story for Earthdawn.

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• Parlainth Adventures: Blood Pact

• Dan figured out why he thought there was a well!

• Overall theme: Vulnerability of youth and the responsibility to protect the weak.

• Child gets poisoned by Mindtrap's blood on the map wall.

• Josh explains the set-up; what came before.

• Avenues of investigation.

• Portraying those mentally broken by Horrors.

• The infection spreads.

• Hunting the Horror.

• Mindtrap's game statistics and challenge.

• Alernate approaches and things to keep in mind.

• Player Character plot armor and ways to address it.

• A good, short adventure with a mix of stuff.

• Reward: Butterspider Box.

• Back to Mindtrap's methods and analysis.

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This special episode is the video of Episode 209, recorded at FreedoniaCon 2024.

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• EDSG Live at FreedoniaCon 2024!

• Josh summarizes the convention so far.

• Email from Patrick: Our ending to Infected!

• Email from Matthew: Thread items allowing the user to cast a specific spell?

• Email from Patrick: Favorite easter egg or plot detail?

• Email from K Scott: Glowing eyes in description of Astral Targeting spell?

• Email from Konrad: Thanks for the show.

• What do you do when a skill the character knows becomes a talent?

• Conventions in the UK?

• Email from Graywulfe: Our resolution to Infected!

• Another email from Matthew: Life in Haven: food and water?

• Adventure inspirations and hierarchy of needs.

• Non-adept humans using Versatility?

• Chat question from K Scott: Third printing of the guides?

• Chat comment from Rob about adventure inspriations.

• Josh gushes about a therapist analyzing video games on YouTube

• Chat question from Bean: Intelligent thread items?

• Dan's wish for an Earthdawn dice set.

• Closing thanks and comments.

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• Shosara: Elves of the North

• Reminder: FreedoniaCon Feb 16-18 on the FASA Games Discord!

• Live EDSG on the 18th!

• Shosara is on a peninsula extending into the Gwyn Sea.

• Shosara's citadel was not breached.

• Founded by elves who set out from Wyrm Wood following a vision from Jaspree.

• Real world parallel geography.

• Early history of the Shosaran elves, meeting the Khistovans.

• Partnership and cultural blending, shared ship designs.

• Separation from the Elven Court.

• Abdication of Queen Failla and ascension of Liara.

• Josh's head canon of behind-the-scenes politics.

• Exile of the Laryskova ranelle.

• Stresses in the elven cultural diaspora.

• Preparing for and surviving the Scourge.

• One citadel for the region's entire population.

• After the Scourge, pushing to claim the seat of elvendom.

• Geographical and environmental overview.

• Wild, feral lands that seem to shift.

• Lots of open area to fill in details; "distant horizons".

• Region has its own primeval, wild magic feel.

• Marvel's Savage Land

• Conan Doyle's Lost World

• Skull Island

• Not just a retread of Barsaive.

• Feast of the New Dawn, regatta on the Gwyn Sea.

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• Infected! Spoilers for the adventure in this episode!

• FreedoniaCon February 16-18 on the FASA Games Discord

• Written by the legendary Robin Laws

• Probably Josh's favorite published adventure.

• Let's talk about the cover!

• General gushes about art from old school FASA

• Dramatic, evocative cover.

• Open ended resolution.

• Plays on expectations and twists them.

• Plot background and summary.

• How the PCs are introduced.

• On the Road to Hanto

• Shantaya's Sextant

• Yellowspring and Cherrypit.

• Thematic foreshadowing - no clear cut solution.

• The previous messengers attack.

• Learn about the situation in Hanto.

• Combat focused groups may miss a lot of the nuance.

• Arrival at Hanto, meeting the Grim Legion.

• "Now what do you do?"

• Discussion of Moltaa and Kwamm.

• Aardelea and what's really going on.

• Branching endings... ways to resolve the problem.

• The aftermath.

• Features strong player character agency.

• Situation not story.

• Discussion of the treasures recovered.

• Threads moving forward in the setting.

• Maps and handouts.

• Masterclass in "Adventure as location"

• Any interesting stories from your experience with this adventure? Let us know!

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• The Talshara Ranelle

• Reminder: FreedoniaCon Feb 16-18 on the FASA Games Discord!

• Talshara comprises most of the militia and exolashers in the Blood Wood

• Nearly every combat Discipline is represented in the ranelle.

• Likely includes a significant number of Woodsman followers

• (Check out Episode 78 for the Woodsman Episode.)

• Current leader: Erithander, strongly loyal, can be blunt with the queen.

• Founded during the reign of queen Failla

• Queen Liara brought on members of the ranelle as her personal guard.

• Alachia charged the Talshara with repeling the Horrors as the kaer was prepared.

• Founded the Grove of Blades as a military academy to train fighters.

• If you go with Failla as a prior tenure of Alachia as queen, that puts an interesting spin on her relationship with the ranelle.

• Detachment of Talshara at Eidolon, representing the Wood in that partnership.

• Erithander: Over 300 years old, honest, loyal, and straightforward.

• Follows the elven wheel, has studied four combat Disciplines.

• Possible spin of Erithander as another immortal elf.

• Erthander's agenda: Ensure the defense and protection of the wood.

• Heads the Grove of Thorns that trains the militia, guards, and exolashers.

• Rhisiart: Eritahnder's son.

• Sent out on expeditions to retrieve elven artifacts from outside the wood.

• Banished from court when he disagreed with the queen, now leads Eidolon garrison.

• Dedicated to rooting out Monus Byre and the Seekers of the Heart.

• Honest and loyal like his father.

• Current consortis: Ilisa Willowby

• Was scribe on Rhisiart's expeditions, good friends with the scion.

• Born and raised in court, knows a bit about court culture and politics.

• Made consortis as a slight against the Talshara because of Rhisiart's gaffe.

• Working to get her friend back in Alachia's good graces and lift his exile.

• Goro'imri: The town of the outsiders.

• Founded by an unprotected elf who believes in the strength found in diversity.

• Alachia is aware of the settlement but does not acknowledge it.

• Rommanarel Oakfast is the leader, and has petitioned to meet with Alachia.

• She has learned of the wood longing and its effects.

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• Adventure breakdown: Terror in the Skies

• SPOILERS!

• FreedoniaCon is February 16-18 on the FASA Games Discord

• Live Survival Guide on Sunday the 18th.

• Second adventure published.

• Like Mists of Betrayal, likely written to feature different aspects of the game.

• Still potential balance issues, but not as severely as Mists.

• Sidebar about adventures not strictly speaking a series, despite easter eggs.

• Written by Shane Lacy Hensley.

• High concept of the adventure.

• "You all meet in a tavern..."

• Early heroics and hired by the air patrol.

• Options for NPC interactions and character development.

• The Obsidian Flyer and first encounter with the rakken.

• Letter from a Wizard and learning about the Tome of Banishment.

• Voyage to the Thunder Mountains.

• Sidebar about Juliak Merris, Omasu, and future storylines.

• Encountering ork scorchers.

• Talon Kaer, the windling refuge.

• Sidebar about Jennell Jacquays and adventure design.

• First appearances of some creatures.

• Lower section and the vault.

• The problem with the solution to opening the vault.

• Leaving the kaer and chasing the Shadow Skulker.

• Possible appearance of railroading.

• Opposition of the climactic battle.

• Banishing the rakken and Rasper-Nor.

• Overall opinions and assessment.

• Discussion of casting the banishment spell.

• Ship combat and the airships in the adventure.

• Treasures and loot.

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• The Jae'Helastri Ranelle

• Politically inclined gossip-mongers

• Most likely to pass information to manipulate events.

• May be envoys outside the wood.

• Keep an eye on other ranelles.

• No farming, trade, or other aspects of life.

• Smallest ranelle, no more ancestral lands or lesser ranelles sworn to them.

• The ranelle that "knows things".

• Came to power through unswerving loyalty to Alachia.

• Founder became the go-between the consortis and blood warders.

• Willing to share their information, but just as willing to use it against you.

• May see themselves as a balancing force to keep any other faction from gaining too much power.

• Willing to share gossip and falsehoods to further their ends.

• Focused more on internal politics than external.

• Do not write down their information to keep control of it.

• Pop-culture archetypes: High-class courtesan.

• Littlefinger or Varys from Game of Thrones.

• Involving the ranelle in traditional campaigns.

• Personalities and activites.

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• New Year, New mailbag!

• The full, unedited interview with Lou is available on our YouTube channel.

• The pre-art draft for Grand Bazaar has been made available to backers.

• Email from Bart: Dispelling or disrupting threads?

• Email from Chris: Crossbows! Why Strength?

• Why not more kinds of crossbows?

• Convention news!

• Email from Brendan: Twisted ideals for the non-mad Passions?

• Email from Shady Dragon: Teamwork knacks?

• Email from Brendan: What about the Grim Legion?

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• The Third and Final Part of our conversation with Lou Prosperi

• Lou's Favorites

• Why Ukraine

• One More Thing for Earthdawn

• Enduring Nature and Cliffhangers

• Is Lou a Passion

• Tales From Lou's Table

• Working With Greg Gorden

• Working on Different Systems

• Something from Fourth Edition You Like

• An Area You Wanted to Cover

• If You Could Change Anything

• What Would You Like to Revisit Now

• Grand Storyline

• Differetiation From Other Fantasy Games

• Magic System Development

• If You Could Create a New Game

• Blood Wood

• Disney Imagineering Books

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• The second part of our conversation with Lou Prosperi.

• T'skrang as alien race?

• What's the deal with the ash blowing in from the Wastes?

• Sidebar about the "Western Kingdoms"

• Questions about loci and their use in original plans for Barsaive at War.

• World maps?

• Thoughts about the return of the Earthdawn and other parts of the world.

• Magic use in lands outside the Theran Empire.

• Portals to the elemental planes.

• Back to the illusion of a fully-developed plan.

• Cover art and war golems?

• Why does Lou hate goblins?

• The profileration of PC races (and monstrous humanoids) in fantasy gaming.

• Involvement with 1879?

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• Episode 200! Part one of our conversation with Lou Prosperi.

• How does Lou pronounce certain Earthdawn names?

• What were the plans for continuing coordination with Shadowrun?

• Some discussion about crossover characters.

• Story about Lou sending his SR players into the past before Earthdawn

• Lou's path to Earthdawn.

• How did they go about building the setting?

• Were there secrets that weren't revealed?

• A story about a supplement that never was to provide context.

• "As much as you have to, but as little as possible."

• Is Rosper an homage?

• Magical laser cannons at Sky Point?

• In-setting narratives and what people know.

• What other magical stuff did the Therans have lurking about?

• Some discussion about the loci and setting development.

• Loose plans when first edition shuttered: Vivane, Pawns of the Dragon, Scytha.

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• Wrapping up 2023 with some listener statistics and analytics

• We broke 100k total listens this year according to our host.

• Where our listeners hail from and what platform they listen on.

• Most listened to overall episodes.

• Our Spotify Wrapped summary... new listeners and audience growth.

• Listen Notes score and commentary.

• YouTube stats (all our backlog is now on the channel)

• What does the future hold?

• Adventure analysis: Mists of Betrayal

• First official adventure... spoilers ho!

• Initial thoughts.

• Overview of recommended character Circles and broad session structure.

• Arrival in Tureem.

• Disucssion of the introductory jehuthra encounter.

• Moving on to Haven and getting hired by a Wizard.

• On the road to Blood Wood: Theran ambushes.

• Random sidequest: Ruined caravan and the Horror Duaga.

• Blood Wood and elven politics: The next step along the story trail.

• Tracking the slavers and discovering Akarem.

• Exploring the ruined tower and catacombs.

• Difficult obstacle 1: The Spectral Dancer.

• Difficult obstacle 2: The Mist.

• Back to Blood Wood and returning to Haven.

• Final encounter: Kalourin and the Mist.

• Discussion and potential stumbling blocks.

• Loose ends and possible follow-ups.

• Thread items in the adventure.

• Legend Awards.

• Memories of running the adventure.

• Timeless adventure not tied to any particular era.

• High marks despite difficulty spikes.

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• Mailbag!

• Email from Jonathan: Would Blood Warders or Exolashers have been a path?

• Email from Alexandre: Social Defense needs and protections for a Gauntlet?

• Discussion of Resist Taunt, Lion Heart, Lion Spirit, and other options.

• Email from Leamon: Ways to track Legend Point awards.

• Spreadsheets!

• Email from Brendan: Are Karma and Legend Points diegetic?

• What about talent ranks?

• Episode with Lou Prosperi coming up in a couple weeks!

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• Great Ranelles of the Blood Wood: The Escalanas

• Quick update on social media and the like.

• Kindness from a fan on the FASA Games Discord.

• Tradtionally provides the most Warders to the Rose Throne.

• Current head Kethos was one of the main architect of the Ritual of Thorns.

• The "magic" ranelle, but like other ranelles they do other stuff.

• Based in the western regions of the Wood.

• Traces their origins back to the Western Kingdoms.

• Established the Queen's Warders under Queen Failla.

• Warders developed a lot of the magic to control and interact with the Wood.

• Their sanctuary based in the heart of the Wood.

• Escalanas are covertly meeting with the Denairastas.

• Kethos seeks to end/reverse the Ritual of Thorns in defiance of Alachia.

• Hoping to redeem himself before he dies.

• No longer welcome in court; loyal, but more to elvendom than Alachia specifically.

• Some discussion of possible consequences of ending the ritual.

• Orlando Escalanas: Current consortis.

• The pair staged a falling-out to cover Orlando working as a spymaster for Kethos.

• Adventure hooks or campaign arcs using the Escalanas.

• Seekers of the Heart and the acorns of Oak Heart.

• Eletheria: The ghost of the western forest.

• Vanished from the citadel early in the Scourge.

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• Kaers

• Significance of kaers in the game and setting.

• Common (and most dangerous) destination for adventurers.

• Mists of Betrayal, Terror in the Skies, Ardanyan's Revenge.

• Not a lot of concrete examples in later published material.

• Appearances in novels and fiction.

• What is a kaer?

• Purpose to keep people inside alive.

• Why are you going and what might you find?

• Kaers vs citadels.

• Traps and defenses. Could be turned off by residents to safely emerge.

• Traps are apt to be nasty and deadly.

• Other features of entry and approach tunnels.

• The kaer as a community like surface towns and villages.

• Don't necessarily need to map every inch of the kaer.

• How the residents and conditions might shape the environment.

• A kaer is not a D&D-style dungeon of 10-foot corridors.

• Need space for people to live for generations.

• Entry tunnels should allow room for livestock and goods to be taken inside.

• Concealing the entrance as an additional layer of protection.

• Obvious kaers are likely to have already been found and explored.

• Where kaers were built and why.

• Basic Theran design. Large central chamber with offshoots for various services.

• Mosaics or other fixed decorations as a source of lore or knowledge.

• Living quarters; tiny homes, apartments, dorm suites.

• Main thing about kaer design is there likely would be no wasted space.

• Growth or expansion during the Scourge.

• Wards and protections of the kaer interior.

• Oxygen and air filtration.

• Crops and greenery; rooftop gardens.

• Resource use and waste disposal/recycling (including the dead).

• Water - wells, water spirits, connections to elemental plane.

• Animals and livestock; diet variety (or lack thereof)

• More about crops and food plants.

• Five likely states for a kaer.

• Unopened and inhabited.

• Open and empty.

• Collapsed and not used.

• Failed by Horror breach.

• Failed by other disaster (starvation, disease, collapse)

• Adventurer groups and kaers.

• How do you get in and what do you find there?

• GM should think of the story of the kaer.

• Who lived there and what happened to them?

• Cultural drift (or lack thereof).

• Sidebar about Urupa development.

• How much of a role will the kaer play?

• Exceptions to expectations and what that can do.

• Magic can solve a lot of problems!

• Returning to water source and its importance.

• What do you find inside? Treasure, artwork, lore?

• Kaer-focused game ideas.

• Other sources and inspiration.

• Civic planning and civil engineering.

• Don't put more work into your kaer design than you must!

• City of Ember

• The Expanse

• Silo

• Ultimately limited only by your imagination.

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• The Daevenar Ranelle

• Some comments on Blood Wood games.

• Renowned as the finest artists and craftfolk in the Wood.

• Significant presence in Court, but not an obvious politics player.

• Likely a notable influence on elven culture.

• Possibly behind the campaign against Shosara.

• Importance of art and culture during the Scourge and Ritual of Thorns.

• Loyalty to throne and ability to shape public opinion.

• Strong negative feelings about the Therans.

• Belive the thorns have elevated the Blood Elves.

• Strong antipathy with the Carithasca and source of conflict.

• Returning to the weakness of Blood Wood as a notable setting in typical games.

• Ranelle's main home is near the Court.

• Persons of note.

• Tarin Daevenar: Current leader of the ranelle.

• Embodiment of Blood Elf snobbery and superiority.

• Baltana Daevenar: Exolasher and court bodyguard.

• Supporter of and spy for the Seekers of the Heart.

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• Diving into the mailbag!

• Email from Leamon: GMs with players who know more about the setting.

• Fighting large groups of low-powered opponents.

• Questions for Greg Gorden?

• Email from Brad: Stories about player character death.

• Handling replacements for a dead PC?

• Plans to reintroduce Lightbearers as a path?

• Email from Scott: More stories about character death.

• Player buy-in and expectations with Paranoia as a framework.

• Suggestions for running Earthdawn at conventions.

• Pre-generated characters? Races? Disciplines? Circle?

• Descriptions or maps of kaers? Starting in a kaer?

• Published adventures for convention settings?

• Other advice for convention play?

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• Great Ranelles of the Blood Wood: Carithasca

• A ranelle is similar to a noble house or clan; extended family.

• Mainly based in the Southern Fringe, focused on trade.

• While each ranelle is best known for a particular thing, they don’t do just that thing.

• The ranelle’s background and how they got to where they are.

• The ranelle’s biggest advantage is the network they have built over time.

• Alachia and using royal patents to pit houses against each other.

• Kaer Eidolon as the only trade point with the outside world.

• Carithasca’s goals and motives.

• Opinions of other ranelles, and some inspirations for the house.

• Legends and history.

• Persons of note.

• Ethenia, matriarch and possible immortal; close relationship with Alachia.

• Some thoughts about immortal elves and their role in the Elven Court.

• Haeleon, senior Carithasca consortis.

• Captain Trellius, sailor and frequent visitor to Eidolon.

• Trellius appears in Heavy Metal Queen from Legends of Barsaive.

• Additional thoughts and wrap-up.

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• Email from David: Love for the show and for Earthdawn

• Reminder from Josh about the Earthdawn West Marches community.

• Email from Bryan: Stories about player character death.

• Josh shares a party wipe story from an old D&D game.

• Exploring and surviving underground environments.

• Careless folk get themselves killed in the depths.

• Four things to worry about when caving.

• Bad air: Stale air or other things that affect breathing.

• Try to use magical light sources – torches or lanterns can useup oxygen.

• Toxic or poisonous gases.

• Underground fires can burn for a long time.

• Many visual references for underground environments.

• Cave-ins and collapses.

• Elemental spirits as a useful resource when caving.

• Other useful character skills and abilities that may help.

• Underground water: streams, rivers, and lakes.

• Flooding hazards.

• Additional resource: Dungeoneer’s Survival Guide fromAD&D.

• Fire threats: Magma and hot springs.

• Sample underground hazard traps in the Earthdawn SurvivalGuide book.

• Additional concerns with underground fires.

• Dangerous creatures.

• Often hunt by scent or sound, and sound can carry longdistances underground.

• Horrors and constructs.

• Classic Earthdawn adventures with strong underground themes.

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• Player character death.

• Reminder: Tastes and desires on what a player wants from a game can vary!

• Most problems arise from a difference in expectations between the players and GM.

• Story about Josh’s friend Doug and his approach to his characters.

• Players who strongly identify with their characters can dislike having their story “cut short”.

• A brief sidebar about gamemasters fudging dice results.

• Leaving the “training wheels on” – how long before death becomes a legitimate stake?

• “Sliders” – the degree to which PC death can come into play.

• Setting a policy on handling player character death.

• Is death permanent? How easy is it to come back?

• Revisit the policy to see if it needs to change as the campaign progresses.

• Table tale from Josh about Bearclaw the Journeyman and a player choosing death for their character.

• Table tale from Dan about a character death and how it shaped the game.

• Critical Role Campaign 2 and how a character death shaped character growth and future story.

• In-game acknowledgement of the character death.

• Does removing taking death off the table remove any tension or stakes to the game?

• Finding other options to threaten characters without death; deus ex machina.

• If a character can come back, what does it cost? How might it change them?

• Another table tale from Dan about a fight against the “big bad”.

• Earthdawn’s “lethality curve” and how that shifts as powers come online.

• Email from Leamon (part 1): Petty GM on a power trip.

• Game tone and setting conceit example: Paranoia.

• Character as pawn or game-piece. “Character funnels”.

• The Traveler RPG and characters dying before the game even started.

• Email from Leamon (part 2): Connection to a character affecting feelings about the game.

• Player grief and emotional bleed.

• Bringing in a new character, how to create them, and other consequences.

• Email from Leamon (part 3): Bringing a character/archetype back for more exploration.

• Player introspection and self-discovery resulting from character death.

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• Surviving and Exploring the Wastes.

• Another example of an area devastated by the Scourge, similar in that way to the Badlands.

• Of note in earlier material mainly because of its effect onwestern Barsaive.

• Also an area with a significant number of lost and corruptedkaers.

• Not as easy to get imagery to draw inspiration about the Wastes.

• Jerris is most likely location to launch expeditions into the region.

• Terrain and environment.

• Some discussion of the perpetual ash.

• Magical side effects of the area’s corruption.

• Denizens of the Wastes.

• Sidebar about avoiding easy tropes about deformity and evil.

• Mysteries of the Wastes as a campaign hook.

• Quick summary of some mechanics in the original Earthdawn Survival Guide

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• Surviving the inhsopitable: Death’s Sea and the Mist Swamps

• Death’s Sea

• Invest in protection from heat and bring plenty of water.

• No walking! Airship access only.

• Only solid ground are klenkas, temporary islands of cooledlava.

• Bring foods that can survive the hot, dry conditions.

• Lots of fire-adjacent wildlife to make life difficult.

• Additional suggestions for supplies to help survive the environment.

• Reasons to visit Death’s Sea (aside from mining).

• Mist Swamps

• Fabled ancient ruins (Yrns Morgath)

• Difficulty in crossing the terrain.

• Other reasons to visit the region: rare plants or other magicalreagents.

• Supplies to bring and challenges to overcome.

• Silver lining: Not likely to encounter Horrors andHorrorspawn.

• Past episodes that cover these areas.

• Death’s Domain and escaping it.

• Rescuing player characters from Death’s Domain.

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• Another packed email episode!

• Email from Michael H: Supporting the show, and a questionabout airship and riverboat rules.

• Upcoming topic: Dealing with player character death

• Email from Jennifer: Knacks spreadsheet?

• Sheet is actually what talents become available for the coreDisciplines

• Email from Jonathan: Do animal companions count as allies forthe Shaman pack spell benefits?

• Handling the Repel Animal spell cast in the path of a chargingmount?

• Email from Francois: Questions about kaers. How were theyclosed? How did people open them? Communication from outside to residents of thekaer?

• Naming spirits? Pattern items for Throal, Thera or other places?

• What do Josh and Dan do for their day jobs?

• Email from J: New Earthdawn fan! Question about obsidimen and theMessenger path.

• Email from FrankFrankFrank: Support talents; WildernessSurvival, Navigation, etc.

• Additional thoughts on vehicle-based talents, as well as Haggle.

• Email from Joel Fowler: Legend Point totals for FifteenthCircle characters.

• Updating player characters from earlier editions to fourthedition.

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• Herbs, plants, and natural medicines in Earthdawn.

• Can add more flavor, detail, and variety to your setting.

• The Survival Guide includes a mix of real-world and fictional plants.

• The Herbalist’s Primer by Anna Urbanek.

• Great system-neutral supplement for any fantasy game.

• Item by item list from the first edition Survival Guide.

• Descriptions, uses, and adventure or story hooks.

• Pop culture connections: Lord of the Rings, Aquaman.

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• Exploring and surviving in the Badlands

• Final report on the Deeper Secrets Kickstarter campaign

• Possible reasons to go into (or over) the Badlands

• Historical overview of the region

• Is calling it the Badlands reinforcing its corruption?

• Additional ideas and hooks in the Travar sourcebook

• Solving the mystery of the region’s growth and cleansing thecorruption

• Geography and environment

• Travel difficulties

• Resources and survival

• Denizens of the Badlands

• Creatures, Horrorspawn, and foul folk

• Mountainshadow’s Lair

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• Second of TWO post-GenCon mailbag episodes!

• Question from Josh (not that Josh): Adapting Earthdawn toother systems?

• Some non-legally binding discussion of how to handle fanworks.

• Email from Svenn: Book of Tomorrow and the Earthdawn PublishingTrust.

• Josh reminisces about the EDPT.

• Questions about Legend Awards…

• ED4 challenge ratings versus ED1 specific creature awards?

• Why change the Legend award system?

• History lesson from Josh about the revisions to Legend awardsover the years.

• With a side of design philosophy about creatures vs playercharacters.

• Updating old adventures to the newer Legend award system?

• Guidelines for building creatures and Legend awards in fourthedition?

• Different Legend awards based on character Circle?

• Reprints of Elven Nations and Questors?

• Appreciation for thoughts and comments Lou Prosperi posts toFacebook.

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• First of TWO post-GenCon mailbag episodes!

• As of this episode’s release, just over two days left in the Deeper Secrets Kickstarter

• Email from Alexandre: Playing an offended obsidiman?

• Email from Donald the SoloRPG Guy: Recent Earthdawn episode and shout-out to the EDSG

• Email from Ben: What kind of Horror was Zorg from the Legends of Earthdawn podcast?

• Email from Patrick: Illusionist spells and disbelief/sensing?

• Check out Episode 34 for Illusionist Discipline discussion, Episodes 72 and 181 for Illusionist spell discussions.

• Email from Aaron: Running a game for someone who is well-versed in the setting.

• A few suggestions and ways to approach the situation.

• Email from Tim: Thoughts on adventuring in mountains and making interesting choices.

• Question about characters leaving their kaer in the Badlands for the first time.

• Thoughts on experiences and encounters for newly emerged kaer dwellers.

• Email from Mark: Suggestions on speeding up combat mechanically and narratively.

• Josh shares a hard lesson he learned about pacing and resolving a combat.

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No new episode this week, but a reminder that the Kickstarter campaign for Deeper Secrets is still going! We just broke 56k, and are running through August 25. If you haven't backed, please go check it out!

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• Third and Fourth Circle Shaman spells

• Quick review of a couple important Shaman spell features.

• Third Circle Spells

• Catwalk

• Invoke Lion’s Pride

• Mark of the Wolf

• Polecat Resilience

• Sunlight

• Third Circle picks and discussion.

• Fourth Circle Spells

• Ferret Reflex

• Gills

• Invoke Shark Rend

• Mark of the Bear

• Repel Animal

• Fourth Circle picks and discussion.

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• Josh gives a GenCon update! Booth times and such!

• Reminder: If you have questions for Lou Prosperi, send them in!

• Exploring and surviving forest environments.

• Named vs unnamed forest.

• Typically, much drier than jungles, more undergrowth.

• A brief ecological overview of deciduous and evergreen forests.

• Potable water in forests and the associated hazards.

• Fauna commonly found in forests.

• Pop culture references and inspirations for forest environments.

• Negative vs positive portrayals of woodlands.

• Corrupting presence of Horrors in forests.

• Namegiver and spirit presence.

• The Blood Wood

• Iconic “haunted forest”, the land is alive and watching you.

• How the Blood Wood differs from regular forests.

• The Poison Forest

• Perpetually in a state of undying decay; infected by the ash blown in from the Wastes.

• Mood and feeling of the Poison Forest.

• Large number of Horrors and Horrorspawn.

• How the Poison Forest differs from normal woodlands.

• More mood and feelings.

• Encountering spirits and fauna.

• Corrupted and cadaverous masks from the Companion.

• Book of Exploration entry about the Poison Forest: The Fountain Parchment.

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• 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 Right There

• Suffocation

• Unmask

• Top Fourth Circle picks and discussion

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• 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 surviving Jungle regions.

• More life in jungle habitats than anywhere else.

• Things to watch out for in the Servos Jungle.

• Heat, humidity, and water.

• Mold, insects, heatstroke.

• Low amounts of underbrush, swampy low spots.

• Inspirations: Return of the Jedi (Forest moon of Endor), James Cameron’s Avatar.

• Real-world inspirations: Amazon basin, equatorial Africa, southeast Asia.

• Tomb Raider and Uncharted video games.

• Easier to forage/hunt to survive due to abundant plant and animal life.

• Fantasy versions of hazardous plants; giant flytraps, pitcher plants.

• Wood and plant spirits.

• Downsides of vegetation-based threats.

• Fauna: Snakes, frogs, boar, and more!

• List of creatures by terrain at Panda Gaming Grove.

• Remember motivations of creature encounters!

• Using creatures as clues or hooks for jungle adventures.

• Fire and forests vs jungles.

• The Liaj Jungle, Usun, and the Tamers.

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• 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

• Discussion and top picks for Fourth Circle

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• 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

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• 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 research material: documentaries and reality shows.

• Many kaers took advantage of natural caves in mountain ranges.

• Environmental hazard: Cold and snow.

• Namegivers in Barsaive aren’t likely to have extensive experience with snow due to climate.

• Avalanches

• Frostbite

• Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”

• Suggested mechanics from the Survival Guide.

• Cold water and hypothermia.

• Thin air and altitude sickness.

• Snow blindness.

• Movement and travel in snow.

• True air as a hazard.

• Cliffs, ravines, and crevasses: falling damage.

• Flora and fauna of the mountain ranges.

• Wrapping up.

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• 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

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• 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, don’t raid for silver or gold; not really interested in money.

• General tactics

• Raids on other trollmoots.

• Conflicts over resources, feuds between individuals or clans within moots.

• Ceremonial aspects and strict rules of engagement.

• Will not attack grounded drakkars.

• Raids on lowland communities.

• Stagger and rotate through their targets, like managing hunting grounds.

• Raids of caravans.

• Greater challenge due to protection.

• Tactics unique to attacking caravans.

• Raiding other airships.

• Scouting and intelligence gathering.

• Raids over water and against riverboats.

• T’skrang newots and Sky Raiders.

• Confiscating Theran airships.   

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• 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 armor like Blood Pebble.

• Threaded blood pebble or living crystal armor?

• Email from Captain Olimar: What was the weird cat-thing faced in Josh’s FreedniaCon adventure?

• Elemental affinity of the central tree in the Floating City?

• Using True Shot with Second Shot?

• Horrors from the Cathay books? Half-Horrors?

• Earthdawn novel from Russell Zimmerman?

• When is the next Kickstarter?

• EDSG episodes about the Elven Nations?

• Campaign book about the Harwood Incident?

• Paths for Cavalryman Discipline?

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• Our last Horrors episode: Verjigorm

• The “Big One”, the “Hunter of Great Dragons”, Earthdawn’sGreat 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 onEarth, saw its beauty, and wept the Nammegivers into being.

• Josh speculates how this creation myth might reflect events inthe distant past.

• Not necessarily intended to be a foe to face directly; likethe Great Old Ones from Lovecraft.

• Early stats were likely a way to impress how powerful it is.

• Summary of game statistics and powers.

• Not very active in most recent Scourge, but looms very largein the setting.

• Use and presence of Verjigorm in games – Cult of the GreatHunter

• Getting involved with this Horror will likely draw the attentionof the dragons.

• Obsessions: Hunger for power, fanatical hatred of dragons.

• Captured numerous dragons during the last Scourge.

• This prey is wrapped in astral cocoons that warp them intoHorror-corrupted entities.

• Verjigorm’s spawn as a campaign focus and epic opponent.

• Exploring Verjigorm’s Horror Thread power.

• Lovecraft parallels and cosmic nihilism.

• More than just a giant sack of hit points.

• Most common appearance.

• Closing thoughts.

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• Special 14 Legends 6

• A Fragment From Nutreva

• An Ancient Mystery

• Citadel in the Sky

• The Growing Bones

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• 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 thanhonor.

• Revisiting the dichotomy of troll culture.

• Comparison between highland troll crafts and other cultures.

• Depth and variety found in setting and cultural developmentlater in the game line.

• Sidebar about the Theran Empire book.

• Elemental mining in the Twilight Peaks.

• Crystal weapons and armor as magnets for thread or pattern itemstatus.

• Kintsugi as an inspiration for an aspect of troll culture (anda sidebar about cultural appropriation)

• Josh plugs Designers and Dragons again.

• Airships; crystal raider drakkars.

• Helm, figurehead, and magical importance.

• Magical Law of Similarity.

• True elements used in the process of constructing ships.

• Barsaivian airships versus Theran airships.

• Sailcloth (and trivia about denim).

• Roles on a drakkar crew.

• Possible ritual and ceremony in airship operation.

• Importance of the crew’s focus on airship performance.

• Wrapping up, continued praise for the Crystal Raiders book.

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• 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 to see the Horror’s eyes in any circular or oblong object.

• Curses an item that acts as a conduit for the initial Horror Mark.

• Story twist at the end of the in-setting entry (and an old pop-culture connection).

• Very difficult to break the mark – if the cursed item is not destroyed, the Horror can renew the mark regardless of distance.

• Horror Drain power.

• Combating Aazhvat Many-Eyes: Comparatively low physical stats, but high magical power and advantages of its astral habitat.

• Surreal and mind-warping.

• Film recommendation: John Carpenter’s “In the Mouth of Madness”

• Adventure and campaign potential for the Horror.

• Good Horror to mark player characters because it doesn’t undermine or cripple their abilities.

• The Tempter: Offering its victims their own rope.

• Second-smallest Horror; a thorny seed pod.

• Very difficult to physically deal with.

• Seeks to corrupt those with strong moral codes.

• Marks target and start offering to help them achieve their ends through its Karma Boost.

• Very patient, works to steer the victim to betray their ideals or those they are close to.

• Its powers gradually warp the victim into a Horror construct.

• Not physically potent (though it is very difficult to physically harm).

• Leaves a trail of constructs in its wake which provides a physical challenge.

• Another Horror that could be good to use directly against player characters.

• Cautions about the Horror’s power, and the chance for the character to be lost.

• Fourth edition tweaks to the Karma Boost and the Corruption mechanic.

• Voice whispering in the victim’s ear; like a devil on the shoulder.

• Adventure and campaign ideas using Tempter.

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• 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 hazards in the Twilight Peaks.

• Choice to use Wilderness Survival rules and resources forinspiration about mountaineering.

• Food and diet among the highland trolls.

• Staples and supplements.

• Troll housing and shelter.

• Line marriage, family, and clan structure.

• Responsibilities of the clan chief and his family.

• Newots. Hypocritical slavery or valid cultural practice?

• Treatment of newots as an indication of a clan’s moralstanding.

• Earning freedom and full membership in the clan.

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• 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 timethere “remember” tales they have heard about it.

• Seven bladelike arms, wavy appendage that resembles a flowingcloak.

• Marked individuals suffer damage when Buualgathor uses thelink to find the marking Horror.

• Three options about the current status of the Horror inParlainth.

• Impressive physical stats, multiple common Horror powers likeDamage Shift and Terror.

• Referenced in the Legends of Barsaive adventure series.

• Druistadt

• It’s true Name is only known by its victims, “Druistadt” is at’skrang word describing the entity.

• Mainly haunts the Serpent River basin, devours the hearts ofits victims.

• Likes targeting groups, especially t’skrang riverboat crewsand village covenants.

• Marks victims by making them speak its true Name three times.

• Sidebar about folkloric, pop culture, and RPG history of namesand supernatural entities.

• Once marked, victims face terrifying dreams, and the Horrorreveals itself.

• Serial killers, preferred victim type, and Horror inspirationfrom pop culture and crime fiction.

• Any member in the group speaking the Name three times can markthe whole group.

• Can track marked victims flawlessly; “it can hear your heartbeating from miles away.”

• Powers: Terror, Illusion spells, Karma Tap, Damage Shift

• Unique power: Dream Shape

• Physically tough but will retreat if overwhelmed.

• Not as flashy or dramatic; seems understated compared to otherHorrors in the book.

• Importance of establishing rules for how an individual Horrormight work; “playing fair” by those rules.

• Praise for the GM advice in Monster of the Week for setting upstories or adventures and creating monstrous opposition.

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• 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/SecondWeapon?

• Email from Anthony: Continuing the Earthdawn demo games!

• Involvement with Free RPG Day?

• The Firescale Moot of the Scol Mountains

• Geographic context for the Scol Mountains

• Dominant moot, absorbed or eliminated all rivals.

• Another aggressive moot, lacking the orthodoxy of theBloodlores.

• Possible alternate cultural development spur compared to theTwilight Peaks.

• Relationship with Iopos and the Denairastas.

• Connection to the Outcast?

• Fleet information.

• Prominent members of the moot.

• The Firescales in adventures and campaign arcs.

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• 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 of dark tendrilsextending out into astral space.

• Bestows knowledge and magic items to adepts to slay otherHorrors.

• Slaver in league with Thera after the Scourge, has multiple strongholdsacross Barsaive.

• The rich and powerful who attend its events to wallow indebauchery.

• Highly charming like Ysrthgrathe but lacks the toxic jealousy.

• Its gifts to adepts is how it marks and corrupts them.

• Ironic fates; the gifts given to save others seal the heroes’doom.

• Classic “deal with the devil” style of story.

• Unique powers: Horror Lore, Transport

• Powerful magician, multiple spell actions in ED1, Wizardspells.

• Perhaps the physically weakest Named Horror, but its networkand powers make it difficult to pin down.

• Story hooks or roles for Nemesis in campaigns.

• Chantrel’s Horror: One of three Named Horrors from the originalEarthdawn core book.

• Only seen astrally; Bloody, demonic humanoid suspended in ametal frame covered in small saw blades.

• Attacks the family and close friends of its chosen victim.

• Known as Chantrel’s Horror because of its connection to theTroubadour Chantrel; real name not known.

• Clive Barker homage.

• Has the ability to bring its chosen victim back to life; evendeath is not enough to be free of its torment.

• May go dormant for years to let the victim think they might befree, then will return to inflict its torments again.

• Unique powers: Astral Slice, Blood Memory

• It can mark those closest to its chosen victim regardless ofdistance, based on how closely they are related.

• Like Ysrthgrathe, loves extended torment, but feels coldlyalien as opposed to Y’s strongly “human” personality.

• Chantrel’s Horror in adventures in campaigns.

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• Email from Matthew: Fourth edition political situation inHaven?

• Email from Nick: Stephen King recommendation.

• Story about using Giftbringer.

• Note: The Velocity spell is not in a first edition book. Itwas created by Morgan Weeks.

• Trollmoots of the Delaris Mountains

• Quiet, serene, isolated.

• Location of the monastery where Elianar Messias allegedlyfound the Books of Harrow.

• Also the area where the Fellowship of Night (Episode 109) arebased.

• Rockhorn moot: Mainly in the eastern Delaris peaks.

• Strong association with obsidimen, strong feelings about theTriumph and Ayodhya.

• Parallel to the Stoneclaws in their cultural cross-pollination.

• Potential conflict with the Fellowship of Night due to their experimentationon a dead Liferock.

• Moot most directly related to the Triumph and Ayodhya plotthread in the post-Prelude to War era.

• Notable members of the Rockhorn moot and Greenstone Liferock

• Skyseeker moot: Furthest west, closest to Vivane

• Broadly neutral relationship with the Therans

• Relationship with Messias and the Books of Harrow monastery

• Cursed to “always seek what they cannot find.”

• Internal debate about their relationship with Thera.

• Working with the Fellowship of Night to try and break thecurse.

• Notable members of the Skyseeker moot and Fellowship of Night.

• The Harrow monastery as a notable legendary site that woulddraw characters to the area.

• Ideas about the post-Second War situation for the Delarismoots.

• Continued praise for the variety and diversity that break upthe highland troll monoculture.

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• 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 byjealousy.

• Powerful illusion powers, masquerades as a travelling peddleror merchant and targets small, isolated communities.

• Sells items, then manipulates people’s desires to covet eachother’s possessions.

• Dark reflections of Chorrolis?

• Natural form is shiny-skinned, winged, pterodactyl/wyvernform.

• Will flee if revealed, but it is a physically potent Horror.

• Trinkets and goods are worthless, masked by illusions.

• Powers: Clarion Call, Gift, Horror Mark, Karma Tap.

• Stat block overview.

• Example of adapting tropes and ideas from other sources.

• Using in adventures and campaigns.

• Doesn’t usually target player characters, they will comeacross its plots and manipulations.

• Classic or traditional Horror in many respects; straightforward,but subtle tactics.

• Ubyr: The Kaiju Horror

• Massive, worm-like Horror that hunts and haunts the SerpentRiver network.

• Four hundred yards long, can stretch up to seven hundred yards.

• Boiling acidic blood, does significant armor-ignoring damageto any exposed to it.

• Can sense beings within 30 feet of any part of its body.

• Mainly aquatic but can travel on land just as easily.

• Responsible for the destruction of numerous t’ksrang kaers andcitadels.

• Siphon Will: If Ubyr is able to envelop a structure, it drainsthe life of all victims within.

• Rapidly drains attribute points, rather than dealing damage.

• Not many powers, its Horror Mark is only used to track victimsthat have escaped it.

• Very physically potent.

• Using Ubyr in adventures and campaigns.

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• 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 sameplace?

• Rites for dead adolescent dragons?

• Strength or weakness of the veil between astral and physical space?

• Where are the orichalcum pillars/loci?

• Future plans or discussion for Cathay?

• Email from Tim: Great Sword Valley and terraced geography ofthe Andes.

• Email from Bart: Campaign story about Horrors and CrystalRaiders.

• Questions related to Bart’s campaign; redeeming the honor ofan Outcast.

• Multiple questions about Horrors and how multiple Horrorsinteract with each other.

• Will we cover Horrors from published adventures?

• Character awareness of success or failure of astral sensing.

• Skinny Minis?

• Email from Mouss: Praise for the show and the game.

• Astral Sight questions. (Check out Episode 57!)

• Seeing in total darkness (Ethereal Darkness)?

• Attributes of a Fog Ghost (from Summon Fog Ghost)?

• Questions about the “Tales from the Omniverse” one-shot.

• Email from Jonathan: Story about the Horror Tempter.

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• 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 of the Outcast path.

• Wide variety of practices depending on where the individual exile came from and what they believe.

• A microcosm of the Twilight Peaks.

• Scarce resources and various philosophies can cause conflict between groups.

• Place to compare, contrast, and fracture the Crystal Raider culture.

• Adventure ideas and reasons to venture into the area.

• Followers of Nemar: Dedicated to Nemar Firewalker, who brought the airships to the moots.

• Seek ruins to find ancient lore or artifacts that could redeem, restore, or justify their honor.

• Watchers of Death: Dedicated to keeping Death sealed away.

• Often use the eruptions, fissures, and flow of Death’s Sea for augury or mystic insights.

• Pirates of the Scarlet Sea: Independent freebooters and privateers.

• Not part of the exiles; threaten trade and mining operations in the area.

• Votanna, the Grey Woman

• Legendary figure that reportedly lives in the Grey Forest; Baba Yaga vibes.

• Appears at portentous moments, can be a blessing or curse.

• A force of nature, respected by all the moots.

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• 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 an Earthdawn-flavored reason for the classic “trap filled labyrinth” trope.

• Presence can be felt without it being a focus; converts an area but doesn’t really hunt victims.

• Inspiration: Grimtooth’s Traps

• Baits its converted mazes with riches and artifacts it has scavenged to draw people in.

• Limited additional powers; just elemental immunities.

• Primarily astral entity; difficult to get to it to destroy it.

• Can provide an “alien” aesthetic, magitech in a way not usually present in Earthdawn.

• Can help get around the need for “realistic” spaces you normally need for kaer design.

• Straightforward in its own way, but still unique and interesting.

• Ysrthgrathe

• Essay supposedly written by someone possessed by the Horror itself.

• Josh’s favorite entry, likely written by Caroline Spector.

• Horror that features in the Immortals trilogy (Scars, Little Treasures, Worlds Without End)

• Stereotypical suite of Horror powers and abilities.

• Doesn’t have a mechanical gimmick, is iconic because of his personality and approach.

• Vampire lord, supervillain, suave serial killer.

• “Horror of Toxic Masculinity”

• Likely to use methods that make its victim feel helpless and isolate them.

• Very “human” in its evil, strongly relatable to real-world experiences; abusive, gaslighting.

• Targets individuals, especially powerful ones, patiently works to break them.

• Has a personal touch; not an impersonal force of nature like Ristul or Verjigorm.

• Often uses illusion to charm and manipulate people. Infernal, offering deals and bargains.

• Using Ysrthgrathe in a story arc or campaign.

• Being careful not to trigger post-traumatic stress or the like in your players.

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• 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.

• History of the moot.

• Bloodlore chief: Chorak, very traditional.

• Philosophically conservative and orthodox when it comes to Crystal Raider culture.

• The Forgiven of Jaspree: Living Legend Cult that questions the legend of the Gift of Jaspree.

• Political tensions in the Bloodlore moot; Prokkuav: Questor of Raggok looking to supplant the chief.

• Bloodlore fleet overview.

• Blackfang Moot: The highland magicians.

• Most magically advanced moot in the Twilight Peaks, long tradition of magicians.

• Illim Blackfang: Nethermancer from before the Scourge, corrupted by Horrors.

• Order of Silver Twilight and Illim’s vault; now haunted by Illim’s corrupt spirit.

• Blackfang chief: Drolak, primarily concerned with the survival of his moot.

• Delos: Secretly a Nethermancer, has Illim as a ghost master.

• Classic undead mastermind manipulating events to release him from his captivity.

• Blackfang fleet overview and the volcanic stone drakkars.

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• 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 mechanics.

• Email from K Scott: Fourth edition has lasted longer than first!

• Question about casting from your own grimoire “in the field”

• Email from Ian: Mainlined the whole backlog in 3 months!

• New to Earthdawn and introduced his group.

• Audiobooks? (It’s an idea, but nothing locked down yet.)

• Favorite moments in Earthdawn or other games?

• In an audiobook who would voice who?

• Email from Evan: How much info to reveal to players in combat (target numbers, number of successes, etc.)

• Playing fair as a GM so that players can make informed decisions.

• Chat question from K Scott: Can we trust the info provided about Nebis’s appearances listed in the Horrors book?

• Chat question from Jason: Exploring other Theran provinces?

• Only one currently in development is Arancia.

• Chat question from K Scott: Does the physical size of Parlainth make sense?

• Comparisons with areas of other cities.

• Chat question: Anything planned for the Therans in Barsaive?

• Chat question from British Joel: Population loss because of the Scourge?

• Chat question from Brendan: Troll moots and raiding culture during the Scourge?

• Chat question from Jason: Earthdawn mugs (or other merchandise)?

• Wrapping up. Value of the podcast for both Dan and Josh. Thanks from the chat.

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• 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.

• After being defeated, marks the adepts and infiltrates their dreams.

• Manipulates them to trust the visions, getting his hooks deeper into them.

• Tattoo Claim: Adepts wake up with marks on parts of their body.

• Learn of a ritual to cleanse themselves, but it forms a new body for Nebis.

• Great end to the Horror’s entry in the book. Nebis Nebis NEBIS.

• Introduce early in a campaign, followed with a slow burn.

• Standard cautions about messing with player characters.

• Bone Crown the Usurper

• Appears as a Namegiver, solves a problem, impresses onlookers.

• Loves being flattered

• Hates mirrors – connection to classic folklore

• Will often have multiple personae that lead different factions it pits against each other.

• Very socially potent Horror, Aura of Awe, significant illusion powers.

• Karma Step is based on how many followers it has. More followers = more powerful.

• Grand schemer and mastermind rather than a personal Horror.

• Likes infiltrating larger communities because of the number of potential followers.

• Defeated by being unmasked and unraveling his machinations.

• Moral dilemma of dealing with its followers/victims.

• Connection with the destruction of Parlainth.

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• 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 Peaks.

• Founded after the Scourge.

• Refugees and descendants of trolls from Ustrect.

• Strongly against the idea of reclaiming Ustrect or delving into its ruins.

• Raisers of Ustrect, living legend cult devoted to resurrecting the lost troll kingdom.

• Traditional Earthdawn story hooks with the Horror Ago’astia infiltrating the cult

• Moot tries to stay out of Crystal Raider politics

• Loose agreement with the Thundersky moot about the Grey Forest

• Moot size and raiding territory.

• Thundersky Moot – Descended from the Skytoucher Moot, led by an escaped slave.

• Once the richest, most powerful moot.

• Fallen on hard times because of the Theran assault, many captured.

• Most strongly anti-Theran moot.

• In addition to raiding, also mine and trade. Do not raid other moots.

• Hopes to ally with the other moots to strike back at Thera (prior to Second War).

• Broken Chains – cult dedicated to Lochost and the end of slavery in all forms.

• Trade ore to Ironmongers.

• Strong tactical fighters and raiders, best navigators, and sailors in the Twilight Peaks.

• Most stereotypical trollmoot.

• Moot size and raiding territory.

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• 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 in depth: Joie

• Targets isolated communities, infiltrating as a wandering minstrel or the like.

• Makes itself welcome and tries to appear as a good omen or blessing.

• Unique power: Pervert Emotion

• Slow, insidious sense of things being wrong for those not affected.

• Pop culture references: Bradbury and King

• Good mid-tier campaign opponent.

• For long-term plots, PCs can come across the aftermath of its predations.

• Moral quandry of dealing with the Joie’s victims when they try and protect the Horror.

• Natural form and its unnaturally wide grin.

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• 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 thinking.

• Josh muses on present-day status and development of the Stoneclaws.

• Swiftwind Moot

• Most talented shipwrights and crystalsmiths.

• Legend says one of their founders brought the secrets of the drakkars.

• Partly responsible for triggering the Orichalcum Wars.

• Near the Gray Forest, main source of lumber and True Wood in the Twilight Peaks.

• Conflict with the Ironmonger and Thundersky moots over the forest.

• Chief Ner’ral Skybolt Swiftwind

• Very young, unmarried, hot-headed but willing to listen to advisors.

• Musing on the present-day status of the Swiftwind moot.

• Ulig Stoneshaper: Finest crystalsmith in the moot. Spends lots of time around Mount An’grak.

• Dreams of a crystal that would serve as the foundation of her masterwork (and related story hooks).

• Sk’lag Prowjumper: Master shipwright.

• Either could serve as highly desired mentors for smiths or enchanters interested in airships.

• Trollmoots as allies or antagonists.

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• 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 caught up… what now?

• Question: Interactive Barsaive map?

• Josh teases there will be an announcement at FreedoniaCon 2023.

• Wizards of the Coast and the OGL.

• Josh’s gaming bona fides

• Historical overview, the change from TSR to WotC

• Context of the OGL and changes over the years.

• D&D Fourth Edition, the GSL, and rise of Pathfinder.

• D&D 5e, the rise of streaming and online content.

• Present day: The current ecosystem and OneD&D.

• Leak of the OGL 1.1 and the subsequent discourse.

• Josh gives his opinions on WotC’s decision.

• Lots of uncertainty and strong feelings, watershed moment in the industry.

• Earthdawn and the OGL.

• Call for empathy and understanding.

• Irrevocable damage to the D&D brand.

• Josh takes another 10 minutes to wrap up and land the plane.

• Be kind!

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• 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 Ristul corrupts, Ristul absorbs.”

• Manifestations of Ristul: Nightwists and Ristular

• Very few game statistics in Horrors book: Spellcasting, Mystic Armor, some Horror powers.

• You don’t defeat Ristul, you survive or escape it.

• Stories involving Ristul: Disrupting Horror cults and their machinations.

• Kaer Otosk, Aras Nehem, and the Mad Passions.

• Other inspirations: The Ring, The Wicker Man, Midsommar

• Tone for Ristul-related stories likely to be more traditional horror-genre rather than dark fantasy adventure.

• Taint

• Pictured on the cover of the original Horrors book.

• Essay by Vasdenjas.

• Taints and corrupts the magic used by adepts.

• Gradual, subtle, and by the time you realize you’ve been affected it’s too late.

• Purely astral Horror, very good at manipulating and hiding in corrupted space.

• Loves magicians – their use of magic gives Taint more opportunities to get its hooks in its prey.

• Must make multiple tests to successfully mark the target, but once marked it can manipulate the target’s use of magic.

• As an astral Horror, very difficult to deal with.

• Very patient – once spent 20 years working its way into a kaer.

• Manipulate Magic: Taint’s unique ability.

• If you are marked, it can turn your magical ability against you or your allies, making it even harder to fight.

• Feeds on the helplessness and self-doubt that comes about from knowing you can’t trust your abilities.

• Well suited as a long-term adversary for player characters.

• Caution and advice for gamemasters using Taint.

• More personal and direct a foe than Ristul.

• Sidebar about Josh’s thoughts on Blades related to players being cursed/affected by a Horror.

• Its astral nature and magic manipulation abilities make it tougher than its numbers might indicate.

• Suggestion as a foe for more experienced characters who might have seen it all.

• Ristul and Taint are good examples of Horrors as more than physically powerful monsters.

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• 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 threads?

• Email from Brian: Idea about pacing, advancement, and thread items.

• Revisiting highland troll culture.

• While there are many common cultural traits among highland trolls, there is some variety among the moots as well.

• Moots, Clans, and line marriage.

• The origins of the cultural tradition of raiding and strength.

• Troll honor: personal, clan, and racial.

• Praise for the Crystal Raiders book.

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• 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 secret behind the House but does not want to spoil it.

• Geographic recap of the Serpent River system.

• North Reach.

• Glenwood Deep, Sherwood Forest-like base of resistance against the Denairastas.

• Largest population of windlings in Barsaive.

• Scol Mountains: the Firescale Moot, dracoforms, and the Outcast

• Mothingale Rivers in Blood Wood.

• Mid-Reach.

• Valley between the Throal and Caucavic Mountains.

• Tansiarda: Dwarfs trying to build a bridge across the Serpent.

• Sidebar about bridges across the Mississippi

• Denlikyan: One of the finest shipyards in Barsaive.

• Currently independent, likely associated with Syrtis before the Scourge.

• Lake Pyros: many elf settlements, t’skrang village ruins along the shores.

• Servos River network and Servos Jungle: dominates central Barsaive.

• Inspirations for the jungle.

• Velos: Giant, predatory t’skrang.

• Primitive t’skrang villages and Cathan tribesmen.

• K’tenshin and Travar agriculture and plantations, conflict with indigenous locals.

• Portage: Community near the confluence of the Byrose and Tylon Rivers on the Serpent

• Trosk: Base of operations for questors of Jaspree studying the Badlands.

• Mist Swamps: Great Dragon Aban and the Hand of Corruption.

• Aras Coast: Largely uninhabited.

• Kaer Otosk and the Abyss of Aras Nehem.

• Islands in the Aras Sea: Horror cults, “fallen” communities of cave trolls and the like.

• Axalalail: T’skrang and windling village, built in the trees with platforms, bridges, and rope swings.

• Project to build amphitheaters along the southern Coil River.

• Pilgrimage Route

• Ayodhya and the Old Man of the Nets

• Liaj River and the western rivers not part of the Serpent River system.

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• 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?

• Email from Jean-Baptiste: Pacing in Earthdawn adventures and campaigns.

• Balancing downtime, story momentum, and thread item side quests.

• Specificity and off-label uses of spells and talents?

• Similar effects spread across multiple talents (Example: Pick Pockets and Fast Hand)

• Follow-up from Jean-Baptiste: Meme about the balancing act a gamemaster faces.

• Josh sidebars about game balance.

• Email from Tim: More focus and support for Names as a feature in a campaign?

• Unweaving permanent threads?

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• 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% of podcasts.

• Proposed outline of pre-written Earthdawn adventures.

• Dan describes his very rough challenge rating method.

• Night of Desire: Earthdawn Journal 5

• Search for Wisdom (aka Runvir’s Tomb): Earthdawn Journal 2 (or Redbrick Shard)

• Days of Vengeance: Earthdawn Journal 5, sequel to Night of Desire

• The Kiss: Written by Earthdawn designer Greg Gorden

• Into the Breach: Included with 2nd Edition GM Screen.

• Mists of Betrayal: FASA

• Heritance: Earthdawn Journal 9

• Turnabout is Fair Play: Earthdawn Publishing Trust

• Terror in the Skies: FASA

• Rescue: Earthdawn Journal 2

• Gypsies in the Palace: Earthdawn Publishing Trust

• Arcane Mutterings: Earthdawn Publishing Trust

• Ardanyan’s Revenge: RedBrick Ltd

• Infected: FASA

• By the Book: Shadis Magazine 48

• Parlainth Adventures: FASA

• Woodland Whispers: Earthdawn Publishing Trust

• T’skrang Trouble: Earthdawn Journal 3

• And the Path Shall be Perilous: Earthdawn Journal 7

• Blackout: RedBrick Shard (also in Throal Adventures from FASA)

• Pale River: RedBrick Shard (also in Throal Adventures)

• Burning Desires: RedBrick

• Betrayal’s Sting: RedBrick Shard

• Tournament Troubles: RedBrick Shard

• Prelude to War: FASA

• Barsaive at War: Living Room Games

• Shattered Pattern: FASA

• Barsaive in Chaos: Living Room Games

• Blades: FASA

• Frameworks from Ork Nation of Cara Fahd: FASA

• Kratas Adventures: RedBrick Third Edition

• Josh offers suggestions to tweak the list.

• Thank you for your support so far, and we’ve got more on the way!

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• 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 with cults to spread their reign of terror.

• Corrupt Compromise power: Offer power in exchange for the victim doing a task, resulting in corruption points.

• Crystal Entity: Astral Horror that possesses a physical object, changing it to crystal.

• Unable to move but can telepathically communicate with those nearby to cause paranoia and doubt.

• Attacks with spells and spell-like abilities.

• Can be tough to locate if its minions protect or hide it.

• More subtle, often pretends to be a friendly spirit or avatar of a Passion to gain trust before turning their victims.

• Gharmek: Worm-like, death-and-decay obsessed undead spawners.

• Introduced in the Parlainth set, connected in some way to Twiceborn’s Kingdom.

• Not physically impressive, mildly cowardly, hide behind masses of undead servitors.

• Most likely source of “zombie horde” situations.

• Slipshade: Humanoid shadow-Horrors that can shift into two-dimensional form.

• Collect beautiful works of art; whether as bait for victims or appreciation is not clear.

• Fast, deadly ambush predators that feed on the fear and pain of their victims.

• Haunted house slasher-film monster, very difficult to keep them out of places.

• Wingflayer: Mass of small metallic shards that act in a swarm, shredding their targets.

• Level of sapience is unclear, no sense of guiding intelligence.

• Very fast, high-damage, ruin armor or other materials.

• Unsettling audio experience: rattling, buzzing, clattering sound as they move.

• Wormskull: Iconic. Humanoid figure with heads and limbs made of a writhing mass of worms.

• Despite their appearance, are suaver and more personable than bloatforms.

• Skin Shift: High damage power that separates skin from muscle beneath.

• Great as a mastermind or campaign-level antagonist, cruel but patient.

• Reminiscent of the cenobites from Hellraiser.

• Discussion of how to GM for Horrors and keeping it scary but fair.

• Resources for developing and structuring adventures featuring Horrors.

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• 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 additional Discipline Thread Weaving talents?

• King Varulus’s visit to the Shivalahala Syrtis prior to his death?

• House T’kambras

• House of Swift Waters, symbol is white salmon leaping over rapids.

• Longstanding rival of House K’tenshin on the Tylon River.

• Original aropagoi stood against K’tenshin expansion prior to the Scourge.

• House was wiped out by K’tenshin, and the central foundation blown up.

• After the first Theran War, a pirate federation started causing problems for K’tenshin.

• Most prominent captain is Jedaiyen Westhrall of Astendar’s Desire

• Some Scavian bargefolk are part of the new T’kambras, reflecting the potential strength of diversity.

• K’tenshin are trying to financially undercut shipping rates on the river rather than military conflict.

• Most likely involved in games involving Kratas or Travar, or other South Reach situations.

• SPOILERS: Discussion of “Pirates and Thieves” arc in Empty Thrones and the motivations and goals of House T’kambras.

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• 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.

• Feed on feelings of alienation and self-loathing suffered by the victim.

• Opponent for campaign-level or major story arcs.

• Deceiver: Shapeshifting infiltrators that specialize in illusion and deception.

• Empathic and telepathic powers to read targets and replace/impersonate them.

• Feed on feelings of paranoia and distrust.

• Despairthought: The Horror that tormented J’Role in “The Longing Ring”

• Thick, maggoty-looking worm that moves around on stubby arms.

• Astrally projects and deceives parents into infecting their child with it.

• Speaks in their victim’s mind, feeds on their isolation, betrayal, and depression.

• Eventually tries to provoke the victim to kill themselves.

• Doppler: Body Snatchers or doppelgangers.

• Kills the victim and grows a duplicate of them that replaces them.

• Actual psychological syndrome: Capgras Syndrome

• Dread Iota: Microscopic Horrors that infect water and are ingested by their victims.

• Cause victims to suffer a wasting death, then animate their corpse to spread them.

• Cross between modern germ theory and old ideas of illness caused by evil spirits.

• Kreescra: Short, twisted humanoids with out-of-proportion limbs and features.

• Stalk victims and cause nightmares, preventing full night’s sleep.

• Prevents recovery and can cause death if not defeated.

• Mindslugs: Small, black worms that burrow into your skull and eat your brain.

• Ambush and Gain Surprise make them difficult to notice.

• If they get started on a victim, it is painful and difficult to remove them.

• Miseryworm: Larger, more powerful, despairthought variant.

• Similar tactic of approaching parents and targeting their children.

• Rather than driving the victim to suicide, warps them into Wretched Imps.

• Scurrier: Small, chubby humanoids with exposed brains.

• Create and repair traps in ruins and kaers, feed off the pain of adepts that get trapped in them.

• Can complicate kaer delves or Horror lairs because even previously traveled areas might not be safe.

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• 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 Iopos

• Closely allied with the Denairastas

• New arrivals on the scene—unknown prior to the Scourge.

• Early encounters were aggressive, started taking control of villages from House Syrtis.

• Ignores the Free Trade Compact.

• Use overtures of diplomacy to take advantage of rivals; underhanded skullduggery and intrigue (like the Denairastas).

• Capture of Lake Vors

• Very firmly in the antagonist camp.

• Not a lot of detail provided about them in books because of their status as villains.

• Possible origins of House Ishkarat.

• Possible insight into the future threat Ishkarat might pose.

• About Lake Vors.

• Glenwood Deep as a base for anti-Denariastas and Ishkarat activity.

• Ihskarat in adventures and campaigns.

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• 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 humanoids.

• Ranged attackers, operate behind physical constructs and target the back line.

• Kruhz Ehrlgren: Misshapen humanoids of melted corpse flesh.

• Multiple mouths that continuously wail, causing Harried penalties.

• Robiech Ehrlgren: Hairless, scarred, gangly humanoids that could stand ten feet tall.

• Fast, cunning, ambush attackers.

• Gnashers: The most basic Horror type; hordes roamed the surface during the Scourge.

• Semi-mindless bestial entities that devour whatever they encounter.

• Likely the first true Horror adepts are likely to face.

• Crackjaw: 18-foot-tall monsters with two mouths, front limbs with long, sharp spikes.

• “Like a T-rex gone bad.”

• Deepcrawler: Long, snake-like tunnelling Horrors.

• Their aura causes vertigo in those nearby, bite damages their target’s armor.

• Gravetail: Lizard-like Horrors with eight legs and four tails.

• Can drain Recovery tests from its victim which the Horror uses to heal itself.

• Can target Mystic Defense with their physical attacks.

• Gyre: Flying, pony-sized Horrors with bright plumage.

• Can reduce target’s Wound Threshold and cause multiple Wounds.

• Slitherhorn: Large, canine Horrors with slender, pointed head.

• Can create darkness, long-range tentacles, enhanced charge.

• Spikestalker: Horse-sized feline Horrors with large saber-like teeth.

• Ambush predators that hunt in packs.

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• 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 familiars shareable?

• House Syrtis: House of the Dragon Moon.

• Oldest aropagoi; controls the Mid Reach.

• Loom large in t’skrang cultural mythology.

• Discovered and developed the t’skrang hibernation addition to the Theran rites.

• Made up of multiple noble houses, often squabbling and trying to one-up each other.

• Limited cooperation with the Therans before the Scourge.

• Horror attacks during the Scourge and the fate of the shivalahala.

• Slow to recover from the Scourge, remained neutral during the First Theran War.

• Politically complex internally, but no longer a major player in provincial politics.

• The Shivalahala Syrtis – “The Prophetess”, the child leader and timeline updates.

• Sidebar about homebrew setting material disagreeing with official publications.

• Thoughts about the Shivalahala as the focus of a campaign goal.

• Political hierarchy and management of House Syrtis

• The noble houses and private hatcheries.

• The Cliff City of Lalai Gorge

• Can house thousands, but only about ten percent occupied.

• Lots of adventure potential, especially for a t’skrang focused game.

• The Dreadnought: A massive battleship (and financial boondoggle).

• The obsidimen of Zirabul

• Praise for the variety of settlements and locations in the game’s development.

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• 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.

• Nightworm: Giant, transparent, worm-like creature.

• Typically found in groups and target sleepers with nightmares to drive people mad.

• Can also wrap victims up in webbing to feed on them.

• Norikot: Large, vicious, canine beasts.

• Enhanced senses, pounce and charge attacks.

• Shadow: Insubstantial infiltrators and spies.

• More powerful in shadow, can control and expand darkness.

• Can possess a victim’s body while leaving their mind in place.

• Skullfiend: Massive pile of skulls and spines that scream.

• Long reach, area effect damage, terror-inducing scream.

• Spectral Child: A variant on the Spectral Dancer.

• Dealt with in a similar manner, with added creepy child vibes.

• Umbral Stalker: Aka “Soul Hunter”, corrupted Beast spirit.

• Can mark victims and pursue them over great distances.

• Echoes of the Wild Hunt.

• Wind Hag: Namegiver soul bound to an air spirit.

• Haunts high mountain peaks and kills living things that get near.

• Wretched Imp: Small, gargoyle-looking thing.

• Created from children betrayed by their caregivers.

• Not physically imposing, but annoying and difficult to deal with in groups.

• Wrap up and discussion of using constructs in your game

• Importance of player consent and boundaries.

• Tone and presentation with multiple examples.

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• 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.

• Email from Scott: Getting into Earthdawn and Maine connections.

• Video of the Live EDSG episode 60: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kawJkaVV1AA

• House V’strimon and the Coil River.

• Very old aropagoi, long stood against the Therans, anti-slavery.

• One of the “good guy” factions on the Serpent.

• First to establish trade with Throal, Urupa, and cross the Aras Sea.

• Longstanding rivalry with House K’tenshin.

• V’strimon Protocols: Recording the aropagoi’s history and oral traditions.

• The Floating City: Reed islands with canals in place of streets.

• Strong Elementalist themes

• Festival of Flowers

• Shivalahala V’strimon: Powerful Elementalist, canny, but puts forward a grounded demeanor.

• House V’strimon’s hierarchy and goals.

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• 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. Earthdawn version of an iconic fantasy image.

• Dil’kava: Creation of the crystal entity Ago’astia.

• Variant cadaver man with hardened armor, drawn from prior lore.

• Dreamer: Merged obsidimen victims of a Kreescra.

• Physically tough with strange mind-affecting dreamlike powers.

• Better to focus on surreal imagery and psychic weirdness rather than physical threat.

• Fire Wraith: Corrupted fire spirit.

• Like the storm wraith, inspiration for tainted or corrupted spirits.

• Flesh Beast: Undead Namegiver with an animal head attached to the body.

• Low-powered horde minion with body horror flavor, good novice-tier opponent.

• Pestilent Ghoul: Variant ghoul, spreads disease that turns others into ghouls.

• Earthdawn slant on the zombie plague monster.

• Gloomwing: Large winged humanoid, impose feelings of despair and sadness on their victims.

• Their aura imposes penalties and can lead to internal hemorrhaging.

• Grosteque: Formless mass of tentacles and toothy maws.

• Attackers must successfully perceive its form to strike without penalty.

• Kaer Crawler: Construct with a Namegiver torso and two extra pairs of arms instead of legs.

• Fast, unsettling opponent that climbs well. Ambush attacker, very dangerous in groups.

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• 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://www.dasixes.com/podcastfeed.php?feed=6

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• Email from Aaron: Ghoul venom questions. Stacking? Healing? Duration?

• Table tales?

• Email from Daniel: Melee Weapons requirements for Tail Dancer and Windmaster paths?

• Design philosophy on low Circle spells?

• Thoughts on designing and creating custom talent knacks?

• Email from Leamon: Dealing with attendance issues?

• Comments on knacks in Second Edition.

• Email from Scott: Origin story of an Earthdawn fan and bringing in new players.

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• 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 shivalahala is a high Circle Warrior.

• Tensions with Travar.

• Founded around the start of the Orichalcum Wars about 1300 years ago.

• Woke from their Scourge-induced hibernation late – not until the Therans returned to Barsaive.

• Found that one entire foundation and its riverboats disappeared during the Scourge.

• Invited members of House Carinci that were didn’t want to return to Thera after first Theran War.

• Sixteen massive towers, largest on the river, arranged in a diamond pattern.

• Inner four towers have dry-dock facilities for riverboats.

• When allied with the Therans, took t’skrang from the jungle as slaves (mainly to sell to Thera).

• Alliance with Thera and the aftermaths of the wars have left K’tenshin in poor situation.

• Not overt villains, but a convenient target to look down on and in a rough spot in Serpent River culture.

• The Shivalahala K’tenshin – Warden-tier Warrior. Headmistress of the War College.

• K’tenshin Council – 24 members from the aropagoi’s 12 nialls. One member is the Advocate, who can veto the shivalahala.

• K’tenshin numerology.

• No direct representation of affiliated villages.

• House K’tenshin’s goals.

• Josh theorizes potential updates for the current timeline.

• The War College – Six year commitment, mostly t’skrang from House K’tenshin.

• Ideas of working the War College into games.

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• 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 overrun its opponents causing extra damage and knockdown.

• Cadaver Man

• Zombies… with an Earthdawn twist. High-Novice tier challenge.

• Still retain some semblance of their personality.

• FRENZY

• Falsemen

• Created by Therans as automatons

• Strawmen and waxmen are low-powered, mindless cannon fodder in Parlainth’s War Games.

• Stonemen and Steelmen are tougher, officers and commanders.

• They often have a basic personality.

• Ghouls

• Flesh-eating undead construct, feral pack animals. Mid-Novice tier challenge.

• Damaging venom that goes inert if the ghoul is killed.

• More powerful “leader” is presented in the GM Guide.

• Sidebar about the “Cadaverous” mask to turn any creature into an undead/cadaver version.

• Jehuthra

• Giant spider-like construct created from a Namegiver. Low-Journeyman tier challenge.

• Magical abilities: Frost Web binds a target.

• Iron Web creates maze that divides a group of targets that the jehuthra will hunt down.

• Cunning but not intelligent.

• Plagues

• Tall, gaunt humanoid that spreads disease.

• Not physically imposing as an opponent, but it has illusion abilities that allow it to infiltrate or operate unnoticed while it spreads its disease.

• Disease is slow-acting and contagious, could cause lots of problems even after being defeated.

• Qural’lotectica

• Amorphous blob of a body with hooked tentacles and drinks blood.

• Ambush predator, moves slowly but has a paralytic venom.

• Resembles barnacles from Half Life.

• Spectral Dancer

• Created from highly charming and charismatic individuals, cursed to have no ability to interact with the physical world.

• Best way to deal with them is to soothe their torment by connecting with them, a social challenge.

• Stormwraith

• Horror corrupted air elemental

• Aggressive, vicious, electrical attacks.

• Difficult to damage with physical attacks.

• Notable hazard for airships and air mining operations.

• Cadaverous and corrupted masks to make Horrorspawn from other creatures.

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• 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 Serpent River trade

• Bakshevas – a ritualistic toll extracted by the t’skrang who controlled a stretch of river.

• The Free Trade Compact – the aropagoi retain exclusive rights to their tributaries, but the Serpent trade is open.

• Standard unit of freight: the duari. A cask that holds 300 pounds of dry rice.

• About 16 hours of travel per day, approximately 5 silver per day.

• Brief comparison of riverboat versus airship travel.

• Types of passage.

• Freighter: mildly cramped, eat with the crew, may work to reduce passage.

• Passenger line: Passengers only, planned routes and known stops.

• Warship passage: Not commonly available, only adepts who can fight.

• Ferry service: Crossing the river, low cost, no berths, short jaunts.

• Dwarf barges: Easy travel downstream, must pay a riverboat to tow them upstream.

• Showboat: Floating entertainment, carnival, or circus that travels the lower Serpent and Coil rivers. More diverse.

• Lots of pop culture and historical inspirations in this episode for river travel flavor and story ideas!

• River travel is a great source for color and excitement, and mot places in Barsaive aren’t too far from part of the Serpent River network.

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• 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 Olimar: Iberian peninsula?

• Territories outside Barsaive but not described in books?

• Email from Bryan: J’role in his campaign.

• Email from Patrick: Status of podcast listenership?

• Thoughts on mass combat and player characters interacting with it?

• Group masks in Empty Thrones page 213.

• Band of Blades for other system ideas on large-scale goals and campaign integration.

• Using Mystic Paths in earlier editions?

• Comparison of different editions?

• Email from Maciej: The Invae Burnings and Chorrolis?

• Information on Landis?

• Email from Bart: Ally spirits and overshadowing other characters?

• Advice on handling GM burnout?

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• 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

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• 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 options.

• New to the Companion: Eidetic Memory, Matrix Sight, Netherwalk, Second Chance, Soul Aegis, Spirit Strike

• High circle build options and analysis.

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• 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: Updating old adventures to fourth edition?

• “Commoner” stat block supplement as a GM aid?

• Soapbox moment: Earthdawn vs D&D, Shadowrun connections.

• Email from Chris: Shosara questions. Firbruid? Dragons?

• Other events or themes for Shosara?

• City in a Bottle revamp?

• Second email from Chris: Five ancient cities referenced in Travar book?

• Print version of Misguided Ambitions?

• Email from a different Chris: Circle advancement and acquiring new talents.

• Email from Lee: Other uses for the Eye of Throal.

• Suggestions on future topics.

• Quick overview of the Dragons’ Network.

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• Secret Societies: The Eye of Throal

• Hey listeners, is there anything you would like us to cover? Whether new or revisited?

• One of the largest movers and shakers in the Secret Societies book.

• Thera doesn’t know who runs it, but it is revealed in the Throal sourcebook: J’role.

• Five major leaders below the Senior Gatherer, only one known by the Therans.

• Discussion in this episode about the “present day” Eye might differ from eventual published material.

• One of the largest (if not the largest) intelligence network in Barsaive.

• Essay focuses mostly about Throal’s connections and interactions with other powers in Barsaive.

• Partnership between the Eye of Throal and His Majesty’s Diplomatic Corps

• Role of the Eye in late first edition products and potential role in the fourth edition timeline.

• Using the Eye of Throal in adventures and campaigns.

• Not just an employer – use as a complicating factor.

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• High Circle Sky Raider

• GenCon! Josh talks about his (delayed) prep!

• Technical problems continue! But not as bad as before!

• Recap of Sky Raider themes and ideas.

• Ninth Circle Discipline ability: Strength of the Sky

• Warden tier bonuses and Discipline talents.

• Warden talent options.

• New to the Companion: Lion Spirit, Relentless Recovery, Resist Pain, Storm Shield, Vital Ward

• Thirteenth Circle Discipline ability: Stormcall

• “Names are hard” and Josh goes through the math of the “big-ass lightning attack”.

• Master tier bonuses and Discipline talents.

• Master talent options.

• Josh misspeaks – Resist Pain would reduce effect of Wound-causing abilities, not Unflinching Fortitude.

• New to Companion: Aura Armor, Champion Challenge, Critical Hit, Eagle Eye, Second Chance, Undermine, Weapon Breaker.

• High circle analysis and build options.

• Talent option system and making choices interesting.

• Other Disciplines can deal as much (or more) damage, but the Sky Raider style is great.

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• Sorry about the technical and sound issues this episode!

• Secret Societies: The Liferock Rebellion

• What makes a “secret” society?

• The founding of the Liferock Rebellion.

• Omasu: Leader and one of the founding members.

• Membership mainly obsidimen and t’skrang.

• Josh defends Theran strategic decisions.

• The Rebellion acts as a go-between and partisan force behind efforts to unite Barsaive against the Therans.

• Omasu flexing his financial and political muscles.

• Status of the Liferock Rebellion post-Second Theran War.

• A second round of Josh defending the Therans.

• Using the Liferock Rebellion in adventures and campaigns.

• Use as an antagonist in Theran/Iopan campaigns.

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• Sorry about the technical and sound issues this episode!

• Email from Riley: Thoughts on grimoire prices.

• Email from Brian: Second Chance can be decent, actually!

• Email from Tim: Burned through episode archive!

• Rites of Protection and Passage interactions with spirits, Passions, or Netherwalk?

• Thoughts on lack of change in kaers during the Scourge?

• Reason for kaer secrecy and trapped Horrors as mana level dropped?

• Liferocks and obsidimen during the Scourge.

• How quickly did the Mad Passions fall? Their questors?

• Development of new spells in the setting?

• Age of Exploration vs Looking to the Past?

• Mystic Paths errata.

• High Circle Nethermancer

• Ninth Circle Discipline Ability: Otherworldly Willpower

• Warden Tier bonuses and Discipline talents.

• Warden Tier talent options.

• New in the Companion: Armored Matrix, Astral Pocket, Contest of Wills, Perfect Focus, Range Pattern, Safe Thought, Soul Aegis, Summoning Circle

• Thirteenth Circle Discipline Ability: Astral Face

• Master Tier bonuses and Discipline talents.

• Master Tier talent options.

• New in Companion: Casting Pattern, Confront Horror, Effect Pattern, Lion Spirit, Resist Pain, Second Chance, Shared Matrix

• High circle talent analysis and build options.

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• Secret Societies: The Holders of Trust

• Not to be trifled with!

• Potential spoilers in this episode!

• The Holders are the mechanism through which the Denairastas maintain (and expand) their control.

• An intelligence network… but more.

• Sworn to the scion of the Denairastas family first, Iopos second.

• Iopos and its ruling cult of personality; authoritarian regimes.

• Three levels.

• Silver Branch: Public face, city guard, and army.

• Judge, jury, and executioner.

• Not swayed by bribes or corruption.

• Patrol in “triads” – squads of three.

• Copper Branch: Informers, intelligence gatherers, spies on their fellow citizens.

• Unlike the Silvers, hidden, secretive. Could be anyone.

• Operate in cell-like groups, passing information up the chain.

• Informs much of Iopan way of life.

• Gold Branch: High-powered, high-Circle agents and operatives.

• Usually members of the Denairastas clan.

• Operate in other parts of Barsaive in furtherance of Denairastas goals.

• Association with House Ishkarat and the Firescale Moot.

• Orichalcum Branch: Denairastas elite personal bodyguards.

• Very skilled, high-powered combatants. Often enhanced with blood charms and other magic.

• “The Broken Keys” – a possible Denairastas faction in Indrisa.

• Recruitment to the Holders.

• Commentary on the Holders and the Denairastas.

• Ultimately petty but backed with incredible power.

• Using the Holders in adventures in campaigns.