Earthdawn Survival Guide

* Year End 2025* Spotify for Podcasters Wrapped* Numbers breakdown: Followers, listening time, etc.* Analytics* Thanks and looking back* Mailbag!* Email from Frank: Kind words and thanks* Email from Jesse: Beast spirit questions* Invertebrate beast spirits (e.g. octopus)?* Edge cases, writing inconsistencies and oversights* Where to draw the line on categories?* Happy New Year! See you in 2026!Find and Follow:Email: [email protected]: https://www.youtube.com/@EDSGPodcastFind and follow Josh: https://linktr.ee/LoreMerchantGet product information, developer blogs, and more at www.fasagames.comFASA Games on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fasagamesincOfficial Earthdawn Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/officialearthdawnFASA Games Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/uuVwS9uEarthdawn West Marches: https://discord.gg/hhHDtXW

* Vivane Province: Travel and Encounters* We're wrapping up our sixth year!* Great Roads: Heavily traveled* Some elemental earth built into them to help ease travel* Real world parallel: Roman roads* Vivane is (overall) more developed than Barsaive* Real world parallel: Pioneer-era United States West vs East* River travel* Vivane t'skrang compared to the Serpent River aropagoi* Musing on Riverboats and t'skrang culture* Piracy* Theran military patrols; where and how often* Reasons for military encounters* Typical patrol composition* Non-military members: Kedate and Praetori* Coaching hostelries* Earthdawn equivalent of a "truck stop"* "Not Tolkien" sidebar* What you can find at a hostelry* Outlying areas around the cities* Reactions to adepts walking around armed* Thoughts on updates for Fourth Edition* Highlighting differences between Vivane and BarsaiveFind and Follow:Email: [email protected]: https://www.youtube.com/@EDSGPodcastFind and follow Josh: https://linktr.ee/LoreMerchantGet product information, developer blogs, and more at www.fasagames.comFASA Games on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fasagamesincOfficial Earthdawn Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/officialearthdawnFASA Games Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/uuVwS9uEarthdawn West Marches: https://discord.gg/hhHDtXW

* Blades: Grave Wisdom* Interlude: In Search of Knowledge* Timeline and time limit discussion* No specific location; just in a library* Connected NPC: Vanyk Auldsinger* Like the previous interlude: Points the PCs in the direction of the answer.* The Adventure: Travel to Cara Fahd to find the Hold of Courage* Suggested travel encounters.* How post-Krathis Gron Cara Fahd can change things* Finding the Hold of Courage* Entering the Hold* Problems with the "rules" of entering the Hold* Statues and Soul Stones* Description of other aspects of the Hold* Attack by corrupted spirits* Answering the question* Destruction of the Hold* Capsule review: Straightforward location-based encounter* Possible tweaks and expansionsFind and Follow:Email: [email protected]: https://www.youtube.com/@EDSGPodcastFind and follow Josh: https://linktr.ee/LoreMerchantGet product information, developer blogs, and more at www.fasagames.comFASA Games on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fasagamesincOfficial Earthdawn Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/officialearthdawnFASA Games Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/uuVwS9uEarthdawn West Marches: https://discord.gg/hhHDtXW

* We're back!* Post-hiatus update on Josh's latest theatrical production* Legends of Barsaive chapter 13 should be released soon!* FreedoniaCon: February 28-March 1* Overview of Theran Provinces from Vivane boxed set* Great Thera: Island in the Selestrean Sea (aka the Mediterranean)* Present-day Santorini/Thira* Creana: South of Great Thera; city states along river and up along eastern coast of the Selestran Sea* Inspired by ancient Egypt; desert, ancient tombs* The groundwork for the Theran Empire sourcebook was laid in this supplement.* Indrisa: Far to the east/southeast of Great Thera* Indian sub-continent* Brief descriptions of orks and trolls feels like Barsaive rehash* Marac: West/southwest of Great Thera* Inspired by Arabian Nights and similar materials* Talea: Due west of Great Thera* Italian peninsula; fell to Thera due to internal squabbles* Multiple city-states* Vasgothia: Northwest of Great Thera* Dense, haunted forests and forbidding mountains* Inspired by Roman interactions with Germanic tribes, Black Forest, etc.* Other areas* Araucania: Amazon Basin* Aznan: Sub-Saharan AfricaFind and Follow:Email: [email protected]: https://www.youtube.com/@EDSGPodcastFind and follow Josh: https://linktr.ee/LoreMerchantGet product information, developer blogs, and more at www.fasagames.comFASA Games on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fasagamesincOfficial Earthdawn Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/officialearthdawnFASA Games Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/uuVwS9uEarthdawn West Marches: https://discord.gg/hhHDtXW

* We're still getting new listeners!* Sidebar about "jumping into the middle"* Continued sidebar about James Gunn's Superman* Mailbag!* Email from Eli: Ideas and inspiration for seaborne adventures?* Sidebar about campaign theme: Scavenger Hunt* Email from Scott: Recommended reading order for Earthdawn novels?* Email from Tim: Highland trolls outside Twilight Peaks?* Forgot to mention trolls from Kaer Otosk in southeast Barsaive* Email from Magic Octopus: Authors of Blades?* Our experience with running any of the adventures?* Another Email from Scott: More about Blades* Timing of learning about the curse?* What if they decide to discard the titular Blades because they're cursed?* Email from Patrick: Why weave a thread to the cursed Blades?* Sidebar about Josh's love of putting PCs he is playing in difficult situations.* Email from Robert: Callback to episode 51 and making game "less corny"* Attribute values and whether they make an actual difference in play.* Different ways to offer options and make mechanical choices "matter" in RPGs.* Some game design philosophy and examining assumptionsFind and Follow:Email: [email protected]: https://www.youtube.com/@EDSGPodcastFind and follow Josh: https://linktr.ee/LoreMerchantGet product information, developer blogs, and more at www.fasagames.comFASA Games on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fasagamesincOfficial Earthdawn Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/officialearthdawnFASA Games Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/uuVwS9uEarthdawn West Marches: https://discord.gg/hhHDtXW