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From:	Todd Montgomery <tmont@****.WVU.EDU>
Subject:	Earthdwan and SR
Date:	Tue, 7 Sep 1993 09:47:50 -0400

Message no. 1 From John Fox:
> Hello,
> I looked at the map in the back of my Earthdawn (ED = SR B.C.)
> rulebook and deduced that the basic setting (i.e., the ED Seattle) of
> Earthdawn is Ukraine (formerly The Ukraine), with some overlap with
> Kazahkstan, Russia, Bulgaria, and Romania. So, if you want to run
> adventures where characters find ancient magic items, set them in Ukraine!
> Of course, I may be wrong...
>
1.
I also thought about this. But look at the map scale. I think it is
a little off for the size of the Ukraine.

2.
Does anyone know if ED is supposedly _officially_ the 4th world of SR?
Or is this just a rumor? Personally I think mixing the two (Horrors in
SR, etc.) would really take a lot away from SR. It would make the game
really ascening IMO. I have ran ED once and liked it, so I am not saying
this from a point of ignorance. The game has a good deal of great ideas
and role-playing hooks, but it still seems to be aimed at the new AD&D
player type.

I think it would be a major bad move on FASAs part to link the two games
officially. Of course all this is IMNSHO.

The Horrors coming into SR would make Dark Conspiracy look like a Bar-B-Q.

-- Quiktek
-- Todd Montgomery
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From:	"Dylan Norhtup (PHY)" <northrup@*****.CAS.USF.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Earthdwan and SR
Date:	Tue, 7 Sep 1993 13:18:16 -0400

Message no. 2 On Tue, 7 Sep 1993, Todd Montgomery wrote:

> 2.
> Does anyone know if ED is supposedly _officially_ the 4th world of SR?
> Or is this just a rumor? Personally I think mixing the two (Horrors in

YES, for the final time: EarthDawn is the official precursor world to
Shadowrun. This has been confirmed by many sources not the least of which
is myself :) Also the gurus at Gencon this year said that without a
doubt, the ED world IS the 4th world of SR fame.

> SR, etc.) would really take a lot away from SR. It would make the game
> really ascening IMO. I have ran ED once and liked it, so I am not saying
> this from a point of ignorance. The game has a good deal of great ideas
> and role-playing hooks, but it still seems to be aimed at the new AD&D
> player type.

I think that the best part of the game is the world. (But this the best
part about all FASA games (i.e. SR, ED, BTech). The thing that appeals to
me is the fact that it gives some new exciting ways for your current
campaign to expand. You don't have to go throught the trouble of making
your own prehistorical world with its own history, races, countries,
famous people, etc. Being one who derives much more pleasure from the
Sourcebooks that have almost no rules in them This is great reading. My
group is alot more into role playing than dice rolling. Imagine four hour
sessions with but ten or so dice rolls. It boggles many people's minds.

> I think it would be a major bad move on FASAs part to link the two games
> officially. Of course all this is IMNSHO.

As long as they don't come out with an official conversion from one system
to the other and leave the conversions to the imaginations of the GMs I
think that both the purists and the conversionists will be happy.

> The Horrors coming into SR would make Dark Conspiracy look like a Bar-B-Q.

Ribs anyone?

Doc X
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