If the Temper Other Test fails, the target automatically takes a number of Damage Points equal to his Wound Threshold, taking both the Damage Points and a Wound. Physical armor does not protect against this damage, and the character can suffer knockdown.

If the Temper Self test fails, the character automatically takes a number of Damage Points equal to his Wound Threshold, taking both the Wound and the damage. Physical armor does not protect against this damage, and the character can be knocked down.

Each Discipline has a unique variation of the Thread Weaving talent, as listed below.

Record the appropriate Thread Weaving talent on the Character Record Sheet. For example, the Character Record Sheet for an Archer would list Arrow Weaving.

The Thread Weaving talent also gives characters a limited version of the Astral Sight talent. The astral sight provided by Thread Weaving allows characters only enough vision to see threads and patterns. See the Workings of Magic section for more information on threads, thread weaving, and True Patterns.

Using the Versatility talent, human characters may purchase ranks in Thread Weaving talents other than the one listed for their Discipline. These talent ranks cost the same as normal for Thread Weaving.

During combat, if the character triggers a trap after his normal Initiative, this talent allows the character to make an additional Initiative Test to see if he can avoid the trap. Using Trap Initiative in this way causes 1 additional point of Strain to the character.

Marcon is a Thiefwith Rank 2 Trap Initiative. While investigating an old kaer, Marcon and his companions encounter a group of ghouls. Opting to flee, Marcon runs down a corridor, declaring Full Movement as his combat action, which will allow him to get as far away from the ghouls as possible. While running, Marcon triggers a pit trap located in the corridor. Though Marcon has already taken his action for the round, he can use Trap Initiative to try and avoid the pit trap. Marcon makes a Trap Initiative Test with a result of 12. The trap has an Initiative of 14. Poor Marcon falls into the trap, thinking he might have been better off with the ghouls.

The Versatility talent and talents bought with Versatility do not count toward the requirements to advance to a higher Circle. This means that characters who consistently purchase talents from other Disciplines using the Versatility talent will take much longer to advance through the Circles of their own Discipline.

Characters with Versatility may buy ranks in variations of the Thread Weaving Talents. For example, a human Wizard could buy ranks in the Elementalism variation of Thread Weaving.

A character cannot use the Versatility talent to purchase talents available in his own Discipline. This includes talents available to the character at a higher Circle. For example, a First Circle human Archer could not purchase the Melee Weapons talent using Versatility because Archers have access to the Melee Weapons talent at a higher Circle.

An Average success reveals one of the weapon's Key Knowledges from its history. A Good success provides two Key Knowledges from its history, an Excellent succcess reveals three Key Knowledges, and an Extraordinary success reveals four Key Knowledges from the history of the weapon. The Weapon History talent can be used multiple times on the same weapon, each time after a week of study. On each subsequent effort to learn additional information about a weapon, the test result represents the number of additional Key Knowledges from the weapon's history the character discovers.The character's rank in Weapon History is the maximum number of Key Knowledges that a character can learn through this talent. Once he increases his rank in Weapon History, he can then learn more Key Knowledges. The rank of Weapon History is also the maximum thread rank of any Key Knowledge that can be learned from a weapon.

Thom Hammerblade, a dwarven Weaponsmith, has devoted some weeks of study to a weapon known as Grag's Battle-axe. His previous studies have revealed to Thom three Key Knowledges from the weapon's history. On his latest attempt, Thom gets an Excellent success, earning him knowledge of 3 more Key Knowledges from the axe's past. This means Thom now knows 6 Key Knowledges from the history of Grag's Battle-axe. But because Thom has only Rank 5 in Weapon History, he can only learn up to 5 of the Key Knowledges.

A character may attempt to use Winning Smile against any single target a maximum of three times in one 24-hour period. After the third attempt, the character must wait 24 hours before trying to use the talent again on the same target.

Though effective most often against members of the same race, characters can use the Winning Smile talent successfully on members of other races. The gamemaster should judge such attempts to be either Hard or Very Hard on the Success Level Table (see Gamemastering Earthdawn), using the target's Social Defense as the Average Difficulty. For example, a human trying to impress a dwarf of Social Defense 7 might be thought of as attempting a Hard task, increasing the Difficulty Number to 12. That same human attempting to impress a t'skrang would have a Very Hard task, raising a Social Defense of 7 to a Difficulty Number of 15. See Gamemastering Earthdawn for more information on Interaction Tests.

The character must use one of his available Recovery Tests for Wood Skin each day the talent is used. The character can only use the Wood Skin talent once per day, but the effect lasts for a full 24 hours, or until the character ends it. The character makes a Wood Skin Test, adding the test result to both her Death Rating and Unconsciousness Rating. The character can now take more damage before dying or falling unconscious.