 Which Earthdawn books to pick up?, Just finished Dragons. |
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 Mar 15 2007, 10:12 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 141 Joined: 12-August 05 From: Helsinki Member No.: 7,552  |
Yep, I just read Dragons, and since my gaming store has some more ED-books, I was wondering if you guys could help to choose which ones to buy. I don't plan on playing Earthdawn, so no rules material. I play Shadowrun, but I'm also interested in ED, especially if it's even slightly relevant in SR. So if it has even some relevance to Shadowrun, please advice me.
These are the books my store has: Adept's Way Barsaive at War Barsaive in Chaos Blades Blood Wood Sourcebook ED Companion (probably only rules right?) Infected Ork Nation of Cara Fahd Path of Deception Scourge Unending Secret Societies of Barsaive Serpent River Shattered Pattern Terror in the Skies Throal Adventures (adventure module?) Throal: The Dwarf Kingdom Wanderers Way: Makers of Legend Volume 2 Way Of War: Makers of Legend Volume 1 |
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Mar 15 2007, 12:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 870 Joined: 2-October 06 From: Athens Ga Member No.: 9,517 |
Wrong forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mar 15 2007, 01:45 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
No sweat. ----moved--->
Garro, calm down bro! ;) It's been a long time since I read any of the ED stuff, but I remember liking the Companion (and yes, IIRC it's mostly rules; akin to the SR Companion). |
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Mar 15 2007, 01:57 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Retired Admins Posts: 1,784 Joined: 28-July 04 From: Cleveland, OH Member No.: 6,522 |
These two are largely rules.
If memory serves, all of the above are adventures.
These 5 are world sourcebooks, and are probably the ones that will be most interesting to you as a Shadowrun player. Of the five, I liked Blood Wood the best. I seem to recall some rather interesting bits from Serpent River, but it's been a while.
The first two of these are event books, the second two are NPCs. Unless there's a Shadowrun NPC in those books (and I don't remember any, but it's been a while), these should probably be a fairly low priority for you. |
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Mar 15 2007, 02:07 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 141 Joined: 12-August 05 From: Helsinki Member No.: 7,552 |
I was under the impression that Scourge Unending was a book about Horrors? Thanks for the info. |
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Mar 15 2007, 03:01 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Well, if it's anything like the old Fasa SR stuff, it may well be both.
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Mar 15 2007, 05:32 PM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Scourge Unending is aobut horrors, mostly stats, some smaller fiction, with some plot hooks tossed in there. Not as good fiction wise as the original Horrors books, but has more stats for lesser horrors, so a bit more useful.
I would suggest Adept's Way and the ED Comapnion next if you're planning on playing. Very imoprtant stuff there, like expanding on what you can do with patterns, more thread item,s talents for cirlce 9-15 (which are awesome), and the Aept's Way explains things like talent crisis', variant discipline paths, combinations, and fleshes out the disciplines much better. |
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Mar 15 2007, 07:25 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Second the Fisty of Doom here. If you have money to spend after you picked the ones, go for the world books like Serpent River.
If you want updated rules, check out RedBrick's version: http://www.earthdawn.com/ and their webshop at http://www.lulu.com/redbrick Right now they're finishing Nations of Barsaive, Vol.1, which has Serpent River and the Throal sourecbook into one book with new content added. |
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Mar 15 2007, 09:08 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 392 |
Yes, this one is mostly rules, although it does give more info about thread magic, blood magic, and the Passions, all of which are in SR. You probably don't need it unless you have lots of money to burn.
The first book is actually very light on rules. It is mostly descriptions of each Discipline by a practitioner of that discipline. It is invaluable if you are really into portraying Adept Paths in SR. The other ones are all sourcebooks. The one that applies the most to SR would be Blood Wood, which is actually my least favorite, but directly applies to SR's Immortal Elves (probably why I hate it).
This one was sort of a rehash of the old Horrors book with new critters added in as well as a mini-campaign. Not the best buy. You'd be better off with RB's GM's Compendium. Then again, no offence intended, I consider most LRG stuff to be crap.
See my quote above about LRG stuff. The first two are metaplot books and are only necessary if you like LRG's storyline and want its events to be reflected in SR. The second two are their crappy attempt at the Adept's Way sourcebook. I'd recommend Adept's Way over these two any day.
These are in fact adventures but they are extremely important for the ED metaplot and for the Great Dragons. The first involves a little girl who is being transformed into a drake hybrid and the second deals with a Horror cult that has kidnapped a GD's drakes and a pattern item. I highly recommend these.
None of these have direct SR connections except that Blades is part of the return of Cara Fahd, which was bascially the only Ork nation in ED. Could be important if you want to explore the origins of Orks in SR. |
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Mar 16 2007, 10:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 141 Joined: 12-August 05 From: Helsinki Member No.: 7,552 |
Yey, thank you guys for the info!
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