From: | Tzeentch tzeentch666@*********.net |
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Subject: | Dragons and True Magick |
Date: | Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:20:36 -0800 |
reminds me a LOT of Mage: The Ascension. I doubt that Dragons would be able
to be so powerful as to do all the fun things they used to do in
Earthdawn..yet.
After all the mana curve just started and is nowhere near as strong as it
was in the Fourth Age of Earthdawn. Look at all the powers dragons lost from
their ED stats for one thing. Another thing is the mana level does not
support some of the metaraces such as the obsidemen, t'skrang and those
windling dudes. Will they ever show up now that Earthdawn is confined to the
same FASA dustbin as their Star Trek RPG? Not likely. So does that mean they
can do all that nifty magic stuff they could in ED? Maybe not.
In the context of Shadowrun (not Earthdawn) certain things are not present,
like threads. Maybe these will show up later in future magic supplements,
but we can agree we won't be seeing much more of the Earthdawn system ported
over unless we, the players, do all the hard work. Since the old
super-dragon magic was based on simply grabbing threads and yanking them
around you can't assume they can do that in SR. If you want to play it that
way in your games thats cool, but don't assume others will allow the dragons
to monkey with magic at that level.
I'm not a giant fan of the more blatant Threats SR has been beating us over
the head with (though the Invae were VERY cool IMHO) and as far as a player
or GM is concerned there is little difference between a dragon and a CEO or
a corporation. You can argue round and round and round about how dragons
could make Ares their beotch but that's a GM opinion - not something based
on the game 'reality'.
I REALLY like the Earthdawn tie-ins and hope it sticks around a bit (the
uncovering of Thera mentioned lately in Cyberpirates, Invae, blood magic,
etc). Does not mean I'll have dragons smacking around everyone and owning
the world. That smacks WAY too much of dungeons and dragons.
Ken
Still hoping K will take pity on me and send those secret ED to SR
conversions...