EDSG Episode 25: Emails, Metaplot, and Elves

Описание: Email from Spencer: Getting back into Earthdawn and thanks for the podcast!



Email from Rob: Clarifying earlier comment about recorded actual play.



Any plans for the EDSG to talk about the connections with 1879?



Rob will be doing an Earthdawn one-shot for an actual play podcast and will let us know!



Josh’s Soapbox: Metaplot



Focus of the Iopos book on the city and people in it rather than the Deep Lore.



Elven Nations did not go into ancient immortal elf secrets.



The story of the immortals and powerful beings is interesting.



Focus on kings, dragons, and immortals can result in not leaving room for the player characters.



Word of the day: Deprotagonization



Sourcebooks should be gameable, not a novel focused on favored NPCs.



Potential pitfalls of a living setting.



Can’t assume that every game has the same interest in the Deep Lore.



Josh avoids a rant on the obsession with continuity, canonicity, and trivial minutiae.



Only so much space in the book, so choices must be made.



Elves!



Lots of information to take in about them in Earthdawn.



The trouble with elves in RPGs and related backlash.



Elves are people.



The Elven Court and a twist on the cliche.



Tension between Blood Elves and Unprotected Elves.



Lest you forget, Alachia is awesome, but also a garbage person.



Philosophy of the Wheel of Life.



Weaknesses of the Wheel as presented.



Lots of detailed rituals described in the Denizens essay.



Descriptive, not prescriptive.



Elven crafts form as much as function.



Family size and the realities of population sustainability.



The stereotype of long-lived races, patience, and relationship with time.



Number crunching the elf player character.



Combat-type elves should probably focus on defensive talents that lean on their high Dexterity



Good Troubadours and magicians



Fast, agile, middling karma, fragile.








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