I gotta update that verdamnt thing. After exams.

Well.

Earthdawn was conceived of and created as the Fourth World to Shadowrun's Sixth World, but the conscious decision was that we would make all of the connections pretty vague and would not, in product, unequivocally link the two so that gamemasters could chose to ignore or exploit the connection as they wished. We also wanted to be sure that we were not hamstringing either the SR or ED writers by forcing direct continuity between the two lines, and so therefore kept things rather vague. Some authors chose to make more direct connections - I being one of them - in the "Voices From the Past" short story. So, yes, that is meant to be Vestrial in that story, but it could either be the Mad Passion, or just Harlequin's hallucination of him. Regardless of which, the connection is deliberate. The entirety of Harlequin's Back is a tap-dancy link to Earthdawn.

The most notable exceptions to that (that occur to me right now) were Caroline Spector's three novels Scars (Earthdawn), Little Treasures (Earthdawn), and Worlds Without End (Shadowrun). I have to admit that I was phasing out of FASA and into FASA Interactive as those novels were being worked on and I had little to do with them and do not remember why it was decided to create a definitive bridge. It was most likely marketing driven, to try and pull more SR players into ED. Only WWE was published in the US due to the cancellation of the ED book line by the publisher.

Tom Dowd

A limited edition trade-paperback edition of Scars was published in the US in 2005.

Yup and you can get a new copy for $2,499.99 or a used copy for $927.17 through Amazon.com...

(I should have been clearer and said that only WWE was published at that time.)

Tom Dowd

Which begs the question I've had about other items from time-to-time:

1. What are some amazon and eBay sellers thinking ?
2. Has someone actually sold one for even a tenth of that ?
3. Was one price a typo, and subsequent just follow blindly, without applying any common sense ?

I saw an Iron Kingdoms RPG Character Guide for over $3,000 once. I laughed so hard everyone in my office stopped to look at me. And if anyone's THAT desperate for a book. . . well, it must be nice to have money.

You can indeed resolve a lot of issues by throwing large amounts of money at them... if you care to do so that is... and if you have the large amounts of money in the first place...

Me, I have to schedule my purchases a bit and the ludicrous prices out there are very entertaining indeed...

Keep the Faith

Speak of the Devil...

Apparently RedBrick Limited has been publishing new Earthdawn novels, and they added Scars on 25 April 2010.

• RedBrick Limited info page
• Lulu press order page

According to an e-mail response I got from Ms. Spector, Little Treasures should be available later this year.


The other Earthdawn novels from RedBrick via Lulu are:

• Anarya's Secret by Tim Jones (2007)
• Dark Shadows of Yesterday by Hank Woon (2008)
• Immortal Twilight by Hank Woon (2009)