About this episode

The episode discusses travel and encounters in Vivane Province, highlighting its development compared to Barsaive and various cultural aspects.

* Vivane Province: Travel and Encounters * We're wrapping up our sixth year! * Great Roads: Heavily traveled * Some elemental earth built into them to help ease travel * Real world parallel: Roman roads * Vivane is (overall) more developed than Barsaive * Real world parallel: Pioneer-era United States West vs East * River travel * Vivane t'skrang compared to the Serpent River aropagoi * Musing on Riverboats and t'skrang culture * Piracy * Theran military patrols; where and how often * Reasons for military encounters * Typical patrol composition * Non-military members: Kedate and Praetori * Coaching hostelries * Earthdawn equivalent of a "truck stop" * "Not Tolkien" sidebar * What you can find at a hostelry * Outlying areas around the cities * Reactions to adepts walking around armed * Thoughts on updates for Fourth Edition * Highlighting differences between Vivane and Barsaive Find and Follow: Email: edsgpodcast@gmail.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EDSGPodcast Find and follow Josh: https://linktr.ee/LoreMerchant Get product information, developer blogs, and more at www.fasagames.com FASA Games on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fasagamesinc Official…

People in this episode

Host: Josh

Topics covered

• Vivane Province
• Travel
• Encounters
• Elemental earth
• Roman roads
• Pioneer-era United States
• River travel
• t'skrang culture
• Piracy
• Theran military patrols
• Coaching hostelries
• Fourth Edition updates

Keywords

• Earthdawn
• games
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Vivane, FASA Games

Books & works: Fourth Edition

Places: Vivane, Vivane Province, Barsaive, United States, East, the Serpent River, aropagoi

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