Anyone ever make Earthdawn References in their runs? Either refering to events, people, artifacts, etc. Or going there some how? (Rifts, rituals, etc)

I love dropping hints about it during runs; and those of my players who understand them hate me for it. Not because they dont like the crossover, but it always means magical opposition in most cases - and thats usually the weak spot

I really could not play without them anymore - esp when i am the GM. Im not really throwing imortal elves or stuff like that at them, but subtle hints - esp recognisable names of places or artifacts - make their appearance from time to time: I had this company called Parlainth Security guarding a place once... (too bad only one player got the hint and i should mention that they screwed up the run because security looked so though )

I got to admit though that I have been playing Earthdawn for about five-six years.

I woould love to drop Earthdawn references but alas my current group has absolutely no knowledge of Earthdawn. IN fact I think I'm the only one in the city that does....such a good system.

Been playing ED since it was released....btw.

Even been thinking about bringing over T'Skrang and maybe Obsidimen into SR. Throwing T'Skrang all along the Mississppi and Obsidimen in the Rockies and maybe Applichians.

Personally, I was just glad to see a subtle reference in Street Magic. I mean what is Metamagic Filtering if not a precursor to the spell matrix...

I made use of some Immortal Nazi Elves, but not too often. Other then that, I used nothing in the past, but only because my group didn't know too much of the ED-background back then. Nowadays it changed, but we don't play SR at the moment.

The ED campaign I'm about to start is going to end with an SR campaign where the runners defeat the Big V with cameos from their ED Adepts (I house rule that 15th circle adepts are immortal).

I played in a game that did that and it didn't work very well sadly. I do however run lots of cross over related stuff and do have T'skrang around, deep in Amazonia where VITAS never found them.

^Huh? IIRC correctly VITAS occurred before the awakening. And I'd think that the T'Skrang havne't been running around here during the downcycle.

Not in your 6th world

Although to be fair, I somehow doubt that mankind was producing as much Background Count by iteself in the Fourth World, although not being a huge Earthdawn fan I could be mistaken...

also, the BC is not everywhere, which it was in ED.

Well I did put in some poor bastards that were being used to plant 'blood roses'. However the planter didn't actually realize where they were from originally, he was just a sick bugger.

True, but there's a difference between background count and drain

cheops, I think what you're thinking of, the increased damage from raw magic casting depending on the are, is more akin to mana warp damage than standard drain.

i so miss earthdawn. i want to find a game again.