EDSG Episode 22: Email and Horrors

* Email from Brian: PDF tools - Nitro PDF Reader * https://www.gonitro.com/pdf-reader * Email from Rob: Renaming the Weaponsmith? * Putting best practices and advice for online play in the guides? * Recording an actual-play session to complement the books? * Coming soon: An Earthdawn one-shot with the folks from The Critshow * How do new Disciplines come to be? * Email from Aaron: What sourcebooks are must haves? * Tips for keeping players focused on the game? * How to find players online? * The Horrors! * Lovecraftian… but not really. * A chance to bring in weirdness - outside typical ecologies * Physically threatening and possible to wipe PCs. * Should also be emotionally and mentally threatening. * It can be difficult to have some Horrors affect a player character directly. * It’s okay to run some Horrors as bizarre, physically powerful enemies. * Resources and advice on managing mood and horror-genre conceits in RPGs * FATE Horror Toolkit * Nightmares of Mine * Unknown Armies * Delta Green * World/Chronicles of Darkness (especially Changeling: The Lost) * Danse Macabre by Stephen King * Horrors Sourcebook * Call of Cthulhu * H.P. Lovecraft * Edgar Allen Poe * Clive Barker * Effects of the Horrors on the world and setting. * Gauging difficulty of an encounter in the ED4 GM Guide * Horror Karma as a spice, not a main ingredient. * Story arc and campaign-level adversaries. * Horrors in published adventures * Favorite Horrors * Movie Recs: Event Horizon, In the Mouth of Madness, Hellraiser * Kickstarter for Iopos: Lair of Deceit Find and Follow: Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeoifzUuBjez9V6wnvzom3g Twitter: @EDSGPodcast Josh on Twitter: @LoreMerchant Dan on Twitter: @boice_voice Get product information, developer blogs, and more at www.fasagames.com FASA Games on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fasagamesinc FASA Games Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/uuVwS9u Earthdawn Guild Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/earthdawnguild Earthdawn West Marches: https://discord.gg/hhHDtXW