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Matrices are not Talents but rather advanced magical constructs and if you want more of them than the average mage there should be a real cost. Making them knacks isn't a real choice because eventually everyone will take them if they get access to them. I agree with pretty much everything you said,...

FASA has said that, at its core, 1879 RPG will be using the step system. So I suppose you could run the two systems in parallel to each other. However, I get the feeling that, with the lack of true 'magic' amongst the British, there will need to be different rules for things like 'talents', 'spells'...

As a side note: I really like where this thread is going. Having Flows and Penagain both telling us about what they wrote and what we can expect to see is awesomely transparent. I really want to see these books!

I agree with a lot of what has already been said. Both by Josh and by Utsukushi. I think that the Spell Matrix talent was a required option, and upping it doesn't really make for an 'interesting' use of legend points. Turning matrices into a class feature makes a lot of sense based on these Edition ...

Awesome Josh! Thanks for the timeline!

I will be excitedly waiting for these books to hit the streets.

The plan is to have the books at GenCon, which is August, so end of summer really. It looks a lot more tight when you don't know what all is going on behind the scenes. Now when you say 'the books' is the plan to have EVERY book available by Gen Con? I would be very surprised to see you guys get th...

You forget that Earthdawn is a system based on yards, then you see that a spell goes 30 hexes then you as a gm go 'well, we aren't on a mat, how far is that? Uhhhhh.....' One hex is six feet. It's a Theran unit of measurement. Haha, is that true? If so I missed it in the fluff...in any case. I stil...

I never liked giving measures in yards (hexes). It should be one measure given. Is it realy that hard to divide yards to get hexes? Heck I am from Poland and we use metric system, and I don't have a problem with calculating inches, feets, yards to meters and pounds to kilograms. You could save spac...

Congratulations on reaching $80K! Lets shoot for 100 in the next 30 hours!

I'm amazed that the kickstarter has been so successful, so my sincere congratulations. We've given you are money, now all that you have left to do is wow us.

With ED4 doing away with other defensive talents in favor of Avoid Blow, I think your rule sounds like a pretty good tweak. If not to the base talent, I could see it becoming a pretty good knack. 'Grazing Blow', spend some extra strain, use the avoid blow roll instead of physical defense for a singl...