EDSG Episode 22: Email and Horrors - a podcast by Josh H & Dan B
from 2020-04-22T05:00
* Email from Brian: PDF tools - Nitro PDF Reader
* https://www.gonitro.com/pdf-reader
* Email from Rob: Renaming the Weaponsmith?
* Putting best practices and advice for online play in the guides?
* Recording an actual-play session to complement the books?
* Coming soon: An Earthdawn one-shot with the folks from The Critshow
* How do new Disciplines come to be?
* Email from Aaron: What sourcebooks are must haves?
* Tips for keeping players focused on the game?
* How to find players online?
* The Horrors!
* Lovecraftian… but not really.
* A chance to bring in weirdness - outside typical ecologies
* Physically threatening and possible to wipe PCs.
* Should also be emotionally and mentally threatening.
* It can be difficult to have some Horrors affect a player character directly.
* It’s okay to run some Horrors as bizarre, physically powerful enemies.
* Resources and advice on managing mood and horror-genre conceits in RPGs
* FATE Horror Toolkit
* Nightmares of Mine
* Unknown Armies
* Delta Green
* World/Chronicles of Darkness (especially Changeling: The Lost)
* Danse Macabre by Stephen King
* Horrors Sourcebook
* Call of Cthulhu
* H.P. Lovecraft
* Edgar Allen Poe
* Clive Barker
* Effects of the Horrors on the world and setting.
* Gauging difficulty of an encounter in the ED4 GM Guide
* Horror Karma as a spice, not a main ingredient.
* Story arc and campaign-level adversaries.
* Horrors in published adventures
* Favorite Horrors
* Movie Recs: Event Horizon, In the Mouth of Madness, Hellraiser
* Kickstarter for Iopos: Lair of Deceit
Email: edsgpodcast@gmail.com
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