* Happy New Year! Welcome to year two.

* Emails and Forge Weapon

* Email from Matthew: Condolences and praise for Dan’s Legends Readings

* Email from Brian: Strengths of alternate mounts for Cavalryman adepts

* Forge Blade/Weapon

* Six different variants of the talent (depending how you count)

* First Edition overview

* Adept’s Way Addendum

* Introduces cap to bonus equal to base weapon damage.

* Introduces more difficult DNs for use on thread items.

* Two consequences of these changes: Starts balance difficulties of mundane weapons versus thread weapons.

* Permanent bonus also warps the setting in certain ways.

* Second Edition Overview

* Introduced time limit bonus lasts.

* Discussion of consequences and issues.

* Classic Edition Overview

* Lots of heavy lifting, covering crafting in addition to damage bonuses.

* Discussion of consequences and issues.

* Lots of fiddly (and extraneous) behind-the-scenes math and edge-case exceptions.

* Reminder: Changes were attempts to address issues each development team had with talent balance.

* Third Edition Overview

* Discussion of consequences and issues.

* Fourth Edition Overview

* Design process to address different issues and consequences.

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* Brief recording hiatus for the holidays. We’ll be back next week. For now, enjoy more entries from Legends of Earthdawn Volume 1, and we hope you have a happy new year!

* Astendar’s Devotion

* Lyllaria’s Mirror

* The Dance of Korrencia

* The Fire Pool

* Lisar’s Wondrous Pack of Tales

* The Nameless Lad

* The Lost Dream of Wyrm Wood

* How Lor’jak Bonetusk Found His Passion

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Happy holidays! In honor of the season, and with the kind permission of Critshow producer Rev, we bring you the Earthdawn one-shot Josh ran for the cast this past spring.

If you like what you hear, check them out at thecritshowpodcast.com

Happy holidays! In honor of the season, and with the kind permission of Critshow producer Rev, we bring you the Earthdawn one-shot Josh ran for the cast this past spring.

If you like what you hear, check them out at thecritshowpodcast.com

Happy holidays! In honor of the season, and with the kind permission of Critshow producer Rev, we bring you the Earthdawn one-shot Josh ran for the cast this past spring.

If you like what you hear, check them out at thecritshowpodcast.com

Happy holidays! In honor of the season, and with the kind permission of Critshow producer Rev, we bring you the Earthdawn one-shot Josh ran for the cast this past spring.

If you like what you hear, check them out at thecritshowpodcast.com

Happy holidays! In honor of the season, and with the kind permission of Critshow producer Rev, we bring you the Earthdawn one-shot Josh ran for the cast this past spring.

If you like what you hear, check them out at thecritshowpodcast.com

* This one is episode Fifty-Three.

* Ship rules and Josh’s design goals for Fourth Edition.

* Link to the blog post about chase rules.

* There’s more to water travel than t’skrang riverboats.

* Canoes, rowboats, and sailboats.

* Overland travel may encounter rivers or lakes that provide an obstacle.

* Josh describes canoe design and overland transport.

* Rowboats and sailboats tend to be used more locally

* Canal boats and the Floating City

* Barges

* Josh wanders into a sidebar about the classic Sierra game Gold Rush (which does feature water travel)

* Ferries and the ferryman as an important NPC

* The Scavians and their barge villages

* T’skrang riverboat design (with a brief discourse on keels)

* Lots of waterways in Barsaive with the Serpent River and its tributaries.

* Larger populations along waterways.

* Advantages of riverboats versus airships.

* Riverboats in adventures.

* Perilous Tides (by The Critshow) uses Rapscallion from Magpie Games.

* Pop culture sources for inspiration.

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* We’re back from our hiatus with an email episode. Thank you for your patience.

* Remembering Mary Harrison

* Email from Lee: Suggestions about spirit desires and goals.

* First Email from Shane: Mounted path for other Disciplines?

* Tips on crossing to a new edition?

* Second Email from Shane: Name variation in Earthdawn and monocultures.

* Email from Jesse: Momentum attack once per round.

* SETTING DEEP SECRET SPOILERS

* Email from Maciej: Orichalcum deposit under Vivane, magic level stability, and elemental clocks.

* Voice message from Tristan

* You can leave a voice message, too!

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* Regular episodes should resume next week. In the meantime, enjoy some more readings from Legends of Earthdawn Volume One.

* The Questor and the Magician

* Ciarra Shy-Ru

* Parliament of Mermaids

* T’selas Vriimon and the Vyrkanogen

* The King Who Ruled the Passions

* The Way of the Beasts

* The Grass Bridge

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @EarthdawnG

Josh on Twitter: @mataxes

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Earthdawn West Marches