From:	SyphonAC@***.com SyphonAC@***.com
Subject:	The ED/SR Connection
Date:	Mon, 19 Jun 2000 14:37:08 EDT

I've been toying around with the idea of running some type of connected
Earthdawn Shadowrun game (hey they didn't make 'em parallel for nothing,
right?) but wanna know what kinds of crossovers there are...I know a bit
about ED, as I own the book and have flipped through it a couple of times,
and I have a good amount of SR knowledge; basically I understand the idea of
the cycles of magic, (i.e. ED is the fourth world, "ours" the fifth, SR's the
Sixth); that the ED world is ours, to a point, with Thera being Atlantis,
etc; and about the races in general- the immortal elves, the other races, and
dragons. What things have I missed?

Also, where presicely might Throal be located, could Dunkelzahn have existed
about the time of ED (my idea is for a ED group to be shuttling back and
forth between the fourth world and 2056 magically in order to do
something--what I don't know yet-- and it would be neat if he would remeber
them), and I'd like to hear any speculation on why we haven't seen Windlings,
Obsidimen and T'Skrang by 2060. My own guess is that, as those particular
races are perhaps a bit less related to the human genome, so to speak (I
mean, them not neccesary being close variations on Homo Sapiens--- I don't
care what you say, a 8 and a half foot tall rock creature is about as related
to a human as your average chimp is :) that magic levels aren't high enough
yet to support them, and so they haven't "awakened" yet..another possible
game idea...another wave of changes in which these races start appearing.
Well I've taken up enough room...lemme know what ya think.

Syphon

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