Earthdawn Survival Guide

* 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...

* 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...

* 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...

* 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...

* 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...

* 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...

* 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...

* 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...

* 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...

* 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

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