Earthdawn at the table, rulings and rolls left in.
Legends of Earthdawn records an Earthdawn tabletop campaign as it is played, following the Redeemers through a battle against Zorg that runs across several episodes and then the question of what comes after it. Rules checks, initiative mix-ups and in-character speeches all share the same audio.
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Legends of Earthdawn is an actual play podcast, so the audio is the game itself: players roll dice and speak for their characters while a game master describes the world and makes rulings. The system is Earthdawn. The recordings follow one campaign through numbered episodes, and the party goes by the Redeemers. Characters heard across these episodes include Virag, who casts spells; Gareth, who flies on his own wings and fights with a spear; Needles; Persnickety; and Scratch, described as the member who handles item research. Episodes 061 through 063 carry a single battle against Zorg. Their cold opens track it plainly, from a fight that grows more desperate to the episode in which, one way or another, it ends. One title from that stretch, 'Episode 062 - AbZORGed', puns on the enemy's name. The mechanics stay in the audio. Players read out totals to hit, spend karma, take strain in exchange for a bonus, and ask whether an effect should have covered the whole team for the past few rounds. The game master says it should and tells them to apply it retroactively. One player discovers in the middle of combat that the initiative they had in mind belonged to the previous turn. Rules questions get settled on the spot, as when the table confirms that bonuses from two thread items do stack. Small moments supply much of the humour. Needles, stuck fast, wriggles encouragingly, and the game master asks to see just how encouraging that wriggling is, which calls for a d4 to explode three times. It does not. Gareth, his war paint streaked, means to fly at the beast with his spear out and spends the turn getting back on his feet. Magic gets careful handling too. Virag reattunes a spell matrix to trade Arrow of Night for Nightflyer's Cloak, and elsewhere the party studies an object in astral space and can find no pattern in it. An earlier-numbered entry, 'Episode 026 - Shadow and Flame', opens with a Shadowcasters Network ident and sends the Redeemers back into the ruins of Parlenth after the lost lore of orcs whose slave labour built the city. After Zorg falls, the game master proposes a jump of roughly six months in game time, and the party turns to its treasure and its next path. The game master also says the campaign will continue, with more stories to tell. Closing credits carry a trademark disclaimer and release the podcast's original content under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, asking anyone who reuses it to give credit.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes hearing a tabletop campaign with the rules talk left in, and who is happy to pick up Earthdawn terms like karma, strain and thread items along the way.
What sets it apart: It stays with the Earthdawn system and one party, the Redeemers, and the rolls and rulings are part of the story rather than cut out. Its original content is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, so others can reuse it as long as they give credit.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
The Redeemers weigh hidden magic, uncertain danger, and what comes after Zorg.
With Zorg behind them, the Redeemers of Psylocke pause to decide where the road leads next, weighing news about Harland alongside a strange discovery no one can quite place.
A hard-won victory turns into a funny, reflective negotiation over wealth, loyalty, and what comes next.
Victory leaves the Redeemers of Sinoch with the less orderly work of deciding what comes after Zorg's death and Sinoch's redemption. The time advance shifts attention away from exhaustive treasure accounting and toward consequences: wealth to divide, a possible new Sinoch to…
A dangerous, messy finale where Astral Spear hits, Zorg holds on, and the table starts looking ahead.
The fight against Zorg reaches a ragged endpoint with most of the party gathered inside a slate building, Gareth spiraling near the cavern's top, and Thundra seemingly dead again after a brief return.
Messy monster hunts with table-side sparks.
Sci-fi actual play with a long memory.
Actual play with jokes, care, and table noise.
Scrappy D&D, sharp banter, real table chaos.
Chaotic dice, big fantasy fallout.
Waterdeep adventures with earned emotional fallout.
The Redeemers of Sinoc travel to the Great Library of Thrall to research the wooden heart taken from the spider's lair, with librarian Nathalie adding a +4 step bonus to Scratch's item history roll.
Legends of Earthdawn Episode 065, "Neo-Cynoch," centers on the party deciding what comes after Zorg while Josh answers a thread-item rules question about bonuses stacking.
Legends of Earthdawn Episode 064, "Cynoch's Redemption," follows the party after Zorg's fall as they divide treasure, spend legend points, and decide what New Synok becomes.
Persnickety's fire bracer hits for 25, pushing Zorg past its unconsciousness rating.
Legends of Earthdawn Episode 062, "AbZORGed," follows the party's fight with Zorg and a bone shambler that keeps forcing spell, armor, and recovery decisions.
Persnickety channels Garland's devotion into shared karma as the party faces Zorg and collapsing defenses.
In Legends of Earthdawn Episode 060, Zorg turns harvested karma into horror constructs as the party regroups by the underground lake.
Zorg's lair is a cavern with a black lake, bloodied corpses, and an airborne horror the party struggles to reach.
The Redeemers of Psynoc explore the ruins of Parlenth, with Virag reattuning a spell matrix while others keep watch.
The episode continues an Earthdawn RPG campaign where the adventurers recover from a battle with horrors, identify magical items, and plan their next move in the city of Parlenth.
A special episode of Legends of Earthdawn where the host interviews Kickstarter creators about the Earthdawn tabletop RPG campaign.
An actual play podcast where players continue their search for missing adepts in a fantasy world, with a brief news item about an Earthdawn Kickstarter.
The Redeemers of Psynoc venture into the ruins of Parlenth after a political encounter in Haven.
A group of players role-play as characters in the Earthdawn fantasy setting, dealing with political intrigue involving elemental coins and a potential coup.
In this episode, the characters help retake the town of Haven from horrors and monsters with the aid of adepts from Eopus.
A group of adventurers in the Earthdawn setting finish a patrol and seek healing at a conservatory after a dangerous encounter.