My first ED GM had rule like that for Karma. His rule was you could buy any number of Karma you wanted, regardless of your rank in Karma Ritual. Your rank in...
... The way I read the official rules is that if a talent is requiring karma and is also a discipline talent you may choose not to spend the required karma. ...
... karma and ... karma. I too followed this rule in the same way with my group. One of the best examples was the Beastmaster's Claw Shape talent. Because it...
I'm a new Earthdawn GM so this may be a silly question. How do people play the effect of offensive social talents? This is mostly for things like battle shout...
... Keep in mind that talents are magic. They do what they do because there is power behind those actions. In the above example, if the PC was taunted with...
I was speaking to one of the editors the other day [e-mails] and he said the Earthdawn 2ED 2nd reprint is out any day. So we will have the corrections to the...
How many lp's to what spells? Do you have a table? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better ...
I don't like the changes. It seems that there was an effort to weaken the magic users in 2nd edition. Multiclassing is difficult now. It now costs more...
personally I think spell users in earthdawn have always been too strong and ive been running earthdawn since it started firstly: there is no restrictions on...
The restrictions you mention are precisely what is wrong with those other games. They are not practical. They are "game balance" without explanation....
the restrictions on the other games make sence armour: if restricts the flow of magic Spellcasting: surely creating a flow of magic through your body and ...
... Any why should there be? ... No, but they are limited to what's in their matrices, which take time to re-attune. ... That's probably part of the long-term...
put a spell user in plate mail he dont look like a spell caster as for threads advanced matrix one less to cast option rules for threadweaving an exeptional...
... Does it matter though? Really? Do you have to look the part? I have never bought into the whole armor restriction business for mages. It adds zero...
... I said "astral" kick-me sign. Spell matricies are clearly visible parts of a mage's pattern. ... And by that circle, the warriors are unstoppable killing...
I am the wizard in our group and we are a low to mid range as far as power goes, I think we are all about 5th circle or so, and I am not the most powerful...
I would be incline to agree with Rich, why sould there be armor rstriction? Fasa built their magic system to avoid having to put restriction in armor, mostly...
1. Getting rid of Acrobatic Strike or changing it? I feel I may want to do something about this talent, especially as it concerns the Warrior discipline. The...
Do you get 'annoyed' when players use these options all the frigging time? I know AA has a cost in strain and a +3 step bonus for the opponent's attack, but...
Do you have 2nd edition? I don't have my book with me, but I was sure that 2nd edition Acrobatic Strike did not require karma and is not a discipline talent...
On paper mages are always way powerful. But then again all disciplines in there area of specialty are. The thing that LRgames looked at when the added the...
One thing I did to limit this was to read the rule that you had to be rushing at your opponite to get the bonus. Eg if you are in melle you can not do it, no...
... Then don't allow them in your game. ... We always played it that it was all you could use it for (well, maybe thrown as well). With the strain cost and...
Well thanks for the response to my questions. I am playing 1st edition and maybe I will switch to 2nd. So, I made some char sheets (Word format) and I was...
