Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: Matthew Turner <mr_chinchin@*****.COM>
Subject: Earthdawn
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 06:06:34 -0800
Matt writes...

I know this is off the topic slightly but does anyone know of anywhere
where I can find info for an Earthdawn/Shadowrun crossover campaign. I
am feeling sadistic.

Cheers.




_________________________________________________________
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @*****.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Message no. 2
From: Mark <Mark@******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Earthdawn
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 21:18:58 +0000
Matthew Turner writes

> Matt writes...
>
> I know this is off the topic slightly but does anyone know of anywhere
> where I can find info for an Earthdawn/Shadowrun crossover campaign. I
> am feeling sadistic.
>
I will provide some brief notes here, can discuss in detail but not
on NERPS! i suggest you mail me privately if desired as i don't keep
up with Shadowrn and some data may bne a bit sensitive for there
without spoiler warnings as some GM's have far too many players on
that list :)

There is some stuff on 'crossovers' on the web and someone once
maintained an FAQ on correlations, however opinions on it's accuracy
varied.

A serious search of the Shadowrn archieves will probably turn up a
lot of stuff if you can only identify it/find it in there!

As for game statistics you have to fudge things as the 'power curves'
between 'joe bloggs' and 'great dragon' between the two are VERY
different, SR attribute+2 = ED attribute step and SR skill + linked
attibute(in 3rd ed or work from ED correlations for older SR
editions) í talent/skill step isn't too bad a start. Durability and
the large numbers of hits some horrors have to compensate to not
translate well to SR soak + fixed damage boxes, pick a SR illegal
fudge that suits the result desired. Finally note that even very
'tame' horrors are obscenely powerful things but a minigun (and
larger weapons) do damage on a scale ED critters just cannot handle.
Vergigorm vs UCAS army equals a clever horror (which is how they
operate) in which case the planet stands no chance or a smoking
crater and remains DNA fingerprinting won't identify. 40pts of armour
is indestructable until you talk antitank guns, then its paper.


Mark

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about Earthdawn, you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.

Thwap!