Oh no intrusion. I love company. Although Grinder might flip out. he's funny that way. Crazy German man.

Anyway Doc, Grinder's been buggin me about starting up another ED game. I've already started teaching one player here on DS who diidn't even have a core book. So there's no problem there. I'm thinking I'll be opening up my game some time this week.

I already have on ED game with a player that has dissapeared. SO I have one opening there, that I think will be Fortunes.
But the new game is open except for laiced, pssobily Nerfherder, and Plan B. I usually go for four, so you're in the front of the line.

Will there be lots of maiming, mayhem, and gore?

Hmm. That would be a great opportunity. I may just get that book out of storage tonight and see if I can do a crash-course on the basics. Out of curiosity, have there been any new editions or anything in the last four or five years? It's seriously been that long since I was given the book, so I have no idea.

Will YOU let me play my Windling Nethermancer? For the love of ... it's not like I'm asking to play a kender or something.

@Fortune - maiming and gore .. gee I hope so.
*checks notes again* Oh! here we go, I have some horrors in that game! Defnitely then!

@Doc - well there have been newer editinos. But if it makes you feel any better, I have the same old ass book in front of me as the one you're looking for. So our really old book notes will match!

Ahh, yes... the great Horrors of Earthdawn: Ysgrathe, Bone Crown, Nebis, Tasslehoff...

Just to throw some oil on the fire but can Theran Windlings (the weird twisted ones) be Nethermancers?

Then you could say yeas to Plan B, we could declare her character killed at first meeting, and she doesn't get to play but you didn't stop her. Everyone is happy. Except Plan B better not mention this plan to her...

*reads plan, eyes Ophis unhappily*


... Seriously, I'm just kidding. (heh) I really don't care what I play. I just like messin' with ya'll.

She's lying!

Hey Plan B. Play a Female Troll Sky Raider, basically a horned, gigantic Valkyrie. We good do with a melee tank. Or maybe an Archer of some sort.

I guess the mighty Fisty o' Doom meant that you're already owning a player slot.

He's using the old FASA rules (1st edition), while I'll run with the RedBrick version. You can find their PDFs at the Battlecorp and Drivethrurpg and their hardcopy books at lulu.com/redbrick. Check them out, they're worth the money.

After some perusing of books Metatron and I have produced this modest request for the beasties Korian has bonded. (This of course presumes the Animal Bond rules suggested in Adept's Way 1 beast per rank).

A Sentinal Hawk (from Crystal Raiders)
A Stone Lion (also Crystal Raiders)
Two Crojan (Barsaive Boxed set and in my experience found in disturbingly large numbers all over Barsaive... We lost more party members to them than i care to remember)
And lastly a Skeorx...

It seems reasonable to me...

Alrighty, see, now I have to glare at you for asknig for pdfs if books that are out and being sold. Don't make me get out the gold text.

I'm using all old books, so you have no need to worry for my game about getting new books.

Coulnd't find aynthing about 1 animal per rank in Adept's Way either.

Can you even have a skeorx and some kind of bird?!

Crap, your animals can kill my character!

The Skeorx won't be in Kratas, no worries. And yes, you can train and Animal Bond that beasts, it's just difficult. And they eat you, when you fail.

Any news about Plan B's character? Ork Wizard/ Archer olé!

I'm trying to remember where it was. It's been too long since I played ED I'm taking ages to remember where rules are. I'll let Metatron do the negotiating for her character.

Last time me and Metatron played ED she had a whole army of animals. My character was the only one who wasn't scared of the Skeorx, it had the advantage of being a useful creature even at higher circles as most creatures become useless or a liability.

she's going for human troubadour/wizard

Ah ha!

Finally found it. Page 101 of the Earthdawn Survival Guide

I ahve to say, I'm realived to see a beastmaster who acutally wants to be a Master of the Beasts, instead of wanting to bed down with them, groom them, and prefer them to people. Sick of beastmasters like that. Bravo. Bonus points for metatron!

So Fist3.0,
Is there a formal process to getting into your game or do I just give you race/class idea and you give me the character creation structure that you are using?

well you give write me up a resume' , but I think it'd be a lot easier to jsut pitch a character .

In contrast to Grinder, my method of char gen is 4D6, drop the lowest dice, and you roll the six main attributes, plus one free roll. That way if one roll bombs out at a 4, you can get a reprieve. I'll be seting the beginning LP in a while, since I don't want to start at 1st circle.

It's not like they are going to go on a rampage through the city or anything... I am in control of them you know

Yeah, but your animals (controlled or not) need to be fed. With meat. And a skeorx is going to need some of it.

My search-fu is strong today - found rules for increasing a familiars abilites (note that you can only have 1 familiar at a time, even though you may have more loyal animals).

Aye, true. They can do their hunting outside the city, and I will have instilled in them a fear of attacking name-givers for food.

Hopefully there will be one or two helpful 'stable' boys (for want of a better word) that have some sort of provision for animals other than mounts, that I will be able to frequent and house the animals there. You know for those moments when it's inconveinient to have the animals outside.

Fist3.0,
I will be picking up my books tonight and getting some ideas together for you. Are there any restrictions in terms of races or classes from the supplements?

I generally stick to the racial restrictions, unless you can convince me otherwise. You'll have a hard sell to get an obsidiman Air Sailor for example. but some of the best characters are a-typical, so something off the norm is usually alright.

Metatron - A skeorx is a scary as beast, and has a pretty strong will. not to mention can tear a name giver apart very damn quickly. You might think you've got it under control, but the gate guards, and possibly the skeorx it's self, may have different ideas. And if you're trainign it to fear Name Givers, well, it isn't going to do you a lot of good in the way of defense in a place like Kratsas. If you let it wander, someone's just as likely to catch the exotic and feared beast and try to sell it for some pit fight. I honestly just think this is one that doesn't jive with our current setting. It'll cause whole loads of problems for you.

The last time I had my players encounter a skeorx, 3 of the characters end up nearly dead and the last one with ~60 points damage before he was able to kill of the beastie.

Yeah sounds a bit like the first time a party I was in met a Skeorx, we got hammered and ran, except the weaponsmith, who jumped in a nearby row boat (I have no idea) and disappeared off down the serpent river never to be seen again....

The next time a party met one the beastmaster dominated it and kept it asleep then went into seclusion until he had it bonded. (This was at about circle 5)

Hey Fisty stop arguing against the Skeorx it will be on our side.

Grinder, do you use MSN or similar as Metatron will find discussing it easier and quicker over that.