Questions tagged [earthdawn]
This tag is for questions specifically about the fantasy Earthdawn RPG. The default Earthdawn campaign world is a version of Earth where magic works. It is canonically the same world as the Shadowrun game setting, but set thousands of years earlier.
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Can a matrix object have multiple matrices?
I'm a windling sorcerer and I created an (enhanced) matrix object, a ring, can I add another one on it?
I'm playing Classic Edition
I've created my Matrix object with my Talent specialization (...
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Probabilities when rolling more dice than needed
I would like to know whether adding an extra die whose result does not count towards a total into a normal dice roll would affect the probabilities.
i.e. in Earthdawn, if a player rolls 2D8+1D6 and ...
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What is the deal with Earthdawn Age of Legend?
I was quite surprised to see a book by Vagrant named "Age of Legend" pop up seemingly out of nowhere roughly around the same time Fourth Edition by FASA was released.
What is this book about ? I can'...
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There's a sixth world, and a fourth world. Where are the others?
Is there any canon lore anywhere about these periods? (1rst, 2nd, 3rd and 5th worlds)
Wanted to make a Shadowrun game with past "proofs" of earthdawn... and it hit me right in the face... what's ...
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What needs to change to make 1st-edition Earthdawn a single-roll initiative system?
The first edition Earthdawn combat system involves declaring actions and rolling initiative every round, which for me is tedious; I want combat to flow, so I want to skip rerolling initiative every ...
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How do I get players to Name a Horror? [closed]
I'm running an Earthdawn campaign and the party's current adversary is an unNamed Horror. In Earthdawn, Horrors fall somewhere between a demon in D&D and an Elder God in Cthulhu. It's important ...
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What character creation tools exist for Earthdawn?
I am looking for a character builder for Earthdawn, preferably 3rd edition. As the editions are not that different, this is not an important detail for me.
I downloaded the Earthdawn Character Editor ...
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Two-handed weapons for Trolls
In the Third Edition Player's Guide the most damaging two-handed weapons that Trolls can use are also usable by Humans. Kind of pointless being three times as heavy and half again as tall if you are ...
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Is Horror Marking permanent or temporary?
When a Horror Marks a character, is the loss of ability to complete Artistic tasks a permanent effect? Once a character is marked by a Horror, do they lose the ability to ever create a non-tainted ...
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Can a human spellcaster using Versatility learn any spell of their circle?
The Versatility talent allows a human character to learn a talent from Disciplines other than their own.
The only limitations to casting spells are: (ED r2, p152)
Your character must have learnt the ...
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What are the effects of corruption by Horrors?
So I've been reading through Earthdawn again thanks to people talking to me about Horrors, and it occurred to me that I don't know very much about how they mechanically work-
I know for a fact that ...
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Earthdawn: What are Barsaive's jungles like?
I used to GM Earthdawn (1st edition) a lot, quite a while ago. However, I'm still rather doubtful about what Barsaive's jungles are like (and, for this reason, all my stories took place in non-jungle ...
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Earthdawn: Barsaive Name Giver and adept population
How large is the population of the various Name Giver races of Barsaive?
...and how is this population distributed in the province?
What percentage of the population are adepts?
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Differences between FASA's 1993 hardcover and softcover Earthdawn (#6000 and #6001)
Were there significant edits between the hardcover (#6000) and the (second printing of the) softcover (#6001) editions of FASA's original Earthdawn from 1993, or did they just fix typos? :)
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What are the changes in the third edition in Earthdawn?
I like Earthdawn and own the second-edition rulebooks from Living Room Games. There seems to be a third edition. Is it worth it to buy these books too? To answer this question for me, I want to know ...
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Are Earthdawn's dice mechanics as unfair and wonky as my player claims?
After an Earthdawn one-off running Misguided Ambitions with my regular D&D 4E group — because one guy was MIA — I had a discussion with one of the players about Earthdawn's dice mechanics. The ...
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Mechanics for implementing Earthdawn magic items in D&D 4e
I'm a big fan of the Earthdawn take on magic items. When you find a magic item, in order to use it you need to learn some of it's history, and spend legend points (Eathdawn XP) to bind it to you.
As ...
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