EDSG Episode 25: Emails, Metaplot, and Elves

* 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. 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