Earthdawn Survival Guide

* An apology and some useful context.

* Email from Matthew: Pronunciation of Floranuus

* What’s up with the dwarfs of Scytha?

* Anything from LRG’s Barsaive in Chaos that was left?

* Discussion of Vivane’s fate in Second versus Fourth Edition

* News about the Iopos book?

* Email from Arran: Why the change to multi-Discipline cost from first edition?

* Josh goes on quite a bit about that one.

* Magic Theory: Threads and patterns...

* Weaponsmiths!

* We will avoid the weeds of Forge Weapon

* Dan’s first character was a Weaponsmith.

* Fills the narrative niche of craftsman or smith, and makes it a playable role.

* Crafting systems can be a thing.

* Downtime and a brief aside on Josh’s campaign calendar...

* Email question from Ste: Immortal elves?

* Email questions from Joel: Resizing of magic items?

* Bluff talent? (With an extensive sidebar about social mechanics)

* Crushing Blow versus Down Strike?

* How to help other Disciplines be more than window dressing in combat?

* What tests do modifiers apply to?

* Super Secret Project?

* What thing not yet updated do you want to bring back? What don’t you want back?

* More Paths? Adept’s...

* The Archer as folkloric archetype...

* Josh’s audio quality is still off.

* Timeline: Landing of the Triumph to the release of Fourth Edition.

* A brief mention of the forked ED2/ED3 Timeline

* Triumph Lands

* Varulus assassinated and Battle of Prajjor’s Field

* The perfidy of the Denairastas

* Post landing cold war.

* Ork migration and the rebirth of Cara Fahd.

* Building alliances and preparing for the inevitable conflict...

* Emails! Lots of Emails! Please forgive Josh’s audio quality.

* From Ryan: Thread item design advice.

* From Guillaume: Thoughts about playing characters emerging from a kaer...

* Introductory levity

* Wizards!

* Wizardly “design niche” in relation to other magicians

* Bookish, scholars, study magic as magic

* Karma Ritual

* Symbol, synchronicity, and correspondence

* Academic, intellectual, learned; magic as “pure art”

* Spell Matrices

* Novice-Tier Discipline Talents

* What is Patterncraft?

* Dispel Magic, Tenacious Weave

* Steel Thought

* Novice Talent Options

* Fifth...

* Email: Pronunciation of Ayodhya?

* Email: Determining what spell is being cast when weaving threads?

* Email: Where is the info about Therans “pausing” the mana cycle?

* Email: Old plot threads or story hooks that weren’t followed up or that we used in our games?

* Places of Note: Bartertown

* Founded to avoid Throalic authority (and dodge taxes)

* Mercantile city not originally intended as a permanent settlement

* A hive of scum and...

* Air Sailors!

* Earthdawn development context

* Elevator pitch: What is the Air Sailor’s theme?

* Inspiration: Age of Sail

* Air Sailor vs Sky Raider

* Specialists, not primary combatants

* Karma Rituals

* Half Magic

* Design Insight: Free Talents

* Talent Discussion: Novice Tier

* Throwing vs Missile Weapons

* Talent Discussion: Journeyman Tier

* Important Attributes

* What to expect as an Air...

* Email: Why don’t the spell lists in ED4 match the ones from earlier editions?

* Email: Can magicians use grimoire casting to cast spells from other Disciplines?

* Email: Thoughts on the effect of the mana cycle downturn on the setting?

* More timeline discussion: After the Scourge

* The Earthdawn

* Throal opens its gates and offers land grants

* Therans return to Barsaive

* First Theran War

* Discovery of Parlainth

* Prince...