[RPG] New (Old) Dawn

[stevekenson]

Our Earthdawn game has finally advanced to the point where our characters have left their kaer to explore the outside world. Even though I’ve played out that particular scenario before, it’s still a powerful idea: explorers seeing a new world for the very first time.

Funny thing is, Kaer Teloris is in the Scol Mountains, so all the stuff we encountered in the adventure (a stone lion, rockworms, the Firescale Moot of trolls) came from the Crystal Raiders sourcebook, which I wrote back in the ‘90s. Stupid rockworms did like 18 points of damage to my character, too! I knew I shouldn’t have made them so tough...

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[xomec.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't have them all in writing (as I don't run the game) but the primary thing we changed was to make step modifiers bonuses or penalties to the die roll, rather than changing steps in-play (which tended to bog things down as folks looked up their new step value). So if you're rolling Step 8 (2D6) and get a +1 modifier, you just add 1 to the roll rather than look up Step 9. The results are close enough, and it's easier in play.

Most of the other stuff involves some additional starting skill ranks for character creation and some reduction of the training time between circles and whatnot, nothing too major. I believe we also agreed to modify the Taunt talent a bit, but since nobody has it yet, it hasn't really come up.