True. I *think* I can live with this, though. Time will tell.

NOTE: Is it me, or does the timeline end too abruptly? Perhaps there's more coming?

note that it also allows for 20-year-old elves and dwarves in the game.

i know that earthdawn have/had a whole magic school known as nethermancy, but besides that i dont have a clue.

i think i have a old earthdawn promo cd here somwhere. its basicly the whole main book as a collection of html files.

Yes. There were several different resurrection methods in Earthdawn. The Wizard spell called "Journey to Life" called back the soul and resurrected the body, but it took time. Likewise, there was a salve that allowed a dead person to burn all of his remaining healing tests and return to life.

Chantrel's Horror, the most buttkickingest of all resurrection specialists, could apply its own rather massive healing tests to its victims, allowing them to recover from death. It could also use "blood memory" to recreate a person whose body had been completely destroyed.

However, these resurrection magics (with the possible exception of the Horror's) were prefaced on the notion that the anthropomorphic personification of death was imprisoned beneath the Caspian Sea (which was inexplicably made of lava). Since the Caspian Sea is not made of lava any more we can assume that this is no longer the case and, considering the popularity of the Grim Reaper in fiction, it is likely that Death is the only Earthdawn deity to retain a considerable amount of power.

Yes, that is also something that it does for the better.

P.S. The one oldish looking gray haired elf avatar then I guess is some Elf that has done way too much Jazz or maybe off company time he's into the raver punk scene or something and bleaches his hair?

And it wouldn't be the first Shadowrun game to disregard the concept that getting implants stunts your magic.

***coughsnescough***

I don't think that was venenum's point.

Howe'er, yes. It blatantly ignores 'ware messing with your mojo, same as the SNES game did.

At least this is somewhat margianally closer to canon than the original concept.

But a glock could blow up the moon..... you just have to make it really really really big.

Now on a more serious note. there are trying to make a game that a ppeales to the masses and not the select tastes of the original games players. Spells wont damage you either most likely. you will have a mana pool.(most likely) They are trying to make it familier to most other vidio games so people will play it and it will sell. They are after all just trying to make money.

-Mr. President, what did you think was the biggest move of Ares in '16?"
-We developed the POWERED GLIDER!!!!"
-Really? But what about that buy-off of NASA?"
-That's doesn't matter... Now we built POWER GLIDERS!!!!

HAHAHAHA. How did I miss this one? Good stuff.

I can stand up, look anybody in the eye, and say the moon is made of cheese. The ability to lie through one's teeth is not rare.

~J

No, but the ability to do it well is.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

What a fucking tool.

Thought that was quite sweet, personally.

I think one of the articles mentioned that only the human design was the new artwork- the elf design is still the old one as yet. They seem to be moving away from cartoony.

No, I think the RNA elf is a new build for sure. The old elves had legs like Lucky Luke. What they said was that only the human model was 100% finnished.