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I would handle it not as 1 per CR but beasts add up to a the current CR. Circle 8 Adept with 2 CR 4 Beasts will be powerful with all the animal enhancements and curability available to them. The Beasts will be able to contribute but not outperform. Utility animals usually don't count for much, unles...

Thanks for the lengthy input, ragbasti. I'm curious - was there a primary motivation behind restarting at Circle 1 with new characters for ED4 versus doing a conversion to ED4? There is some weirdness as Talents appear/disappear, Talents increase/decrease in relevance/value with rule/text changes, ...

I don't really want to get into the overall discussion here but wanted to add my own eperience based on the OP. To set the baseline: I have been playing ED 2 regularly with the same group for well over 6 years now. We were basically the same group with some characters actually existing for the entir...

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I am certainly one of those players from whom these rules would never work. Not only do these house rules significantly alter gameplay, as far as I am concern they also break the fluff of earthdawn.
Still thought it to be a good read though.

I've had this case in a previous game and we also handled it through a knack.
We made it a rather low-rank Knack that the adept could get early, somewhere around Talent Rank 4 or 5.

I did limit its use though, to a single attack per round.

During the development of ED4, the bonus to Claw Shape was restored (Rank + STR +3) to make it a comparable choice to an actual weapon, rather than forcing Beastmasters to spend skill points on a weapon skill as a crutch for early Circles. While this can equal, or even exceed, a broad sword at Firs...

Personally, I am super excited for the Weaponsmith. I used to play one in 2nd edition and it always bothered me that he was basically a giant damage sponge for physical and especially magical damage but had very little cababilities to retaliate. Or just do things in combat in general. This also wasn...

On that note, in which book will we find the Shaman that Morgan teased on his blog?

The way I see it, Spliced Weave is very powerful and comes late for a reason. Concise Casting and Spliced Weave basically allow you to cast multiple spells per round. Getting Concise Casting first enables you to cast 0 Thread spells at first and later on Spliced Weave upgrades this to casting multip...