Earthdawn Survival Guide

By Josh H & Dan BLeisure Games

Earthdawn Survival Guide episodes

July 13, 2023 EDSG Episode 179 - Third and Fourth Circle Nethermancer Spells
* 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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48 min
July 05, 2023 EDSG Episode 178 - Third and Fourth Circle Elementalist Spells
* 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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41 min
June 28, 2023 EDSG Episode 177 - Exploring Mountain Regions
* 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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57 min
June 21, 2023 EDSG Episode 176 - Third and Fourth Circle Wizard Spells
* 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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31 min
June 14, 2023 EDSG Episode 175 - The ABCs of Raiding
* 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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40 min
June 07, 2023 EDSP Episode 174 - Mailbag!
* 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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33 min
May 31, 2023 EDSG Episode 173 - Verjigorm
* Our last Horrors episode: Verjigorm
* The “Big One”, the “Hunter of Great Dragons”, Earthdawn’s
Great Cthulhu
* One of three Named Horrors from the original core rulebook.
* Entry is very similar to the entry in the Dragons sourcebook.
* The “Dark One”, at the beginning, spawned the “Horoi”
* One Horoi – Nightstlayer – left the darkness and woke on
Earth, saw its beauty, and wept the Nammegivers into being.
* Josh speculates how this creation myth might reflect events in
the distant past.
* Not necessarily intended to be a foe to face directly; like
the 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 large
in the setting.
* Use and presence of Verjigorm in games – Cult of the Great
Hunter
* Getting involved with this Horror will likely draw the attention
of 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 into
Horror-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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43 min
May 24, 2023 EDSG Special 14 - Legends 6
* Special 14 Legends 6
* A Fragment From Nutreva
* An Ancient Mystery
* Citadel in the Sky
* The Growing Bones

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33 min
May 17, 2023 EDSG Episode 172 - Crystal Raider Arts and Crafts
* Email from Chris: New listener excitement!
* Josh is running an in-person game!
* Trolls: The final (?) episode.
* Arts and crafts.
* Purpose first, beauty second.
* Crystal, stone, leather.
* Steel is rare; resource and labor intensive.
* Stonesmiths and crystalsmiths.
* Troll crafts and spirituality; more complex and personal than
honor.
* Revisiting the dichotomy of troll culture.
* Comparison between highland troll crafts and other cultures.
* Depth and variety found in setting and cultural development
later 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 item
status.
* Kintsugi as an inspiration for an aspect of troll culture (and
a 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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58 min
May 10, 2023 EDSG Episode 171 - Aazhvat Many-Eyes and the Tempter
* 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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43 min