| From: | John Jacobsma j.jacobsma@************.com |
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| Subject: | SR/ED connexion |
| Date: | Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:53:32 -0500 |
all connexions between Shadowrun and Earthdawn. He has also said that he
strongly dislikes the IEs and the whole shadow history/conspiracy thing.
Oh, well.
This doesn't mean that you have to get rid of dragons or elves, however.
On the subject of immortal elves, the game is headed back in the
direction of the first edition: there are hints that IEs exists, but
they're ambiguous enough that individual GMs can decide the issue for
their own campaigns. This is the way it should be, I think.
Pretty much the same thing has happened with horrors - sorry, the Enemy.
Mike really disliked this aspect, as well, so it's been downplayed to
the point where individual GMs can now decide whether the Dunkelzahn
Maneuver settled the issue once and for all (at least for long enough
that it will never come up in the campaign) or it's yet another
temporary solution. If your GM loves to throw big ugly nasties at you,
then maybe Dunky died in vain.
As for the lost age of magic, I haven't seen anything in Shadowrun to
indicate that there couldn't have been a fourth age. It's just not tied
to Earthdawn anymore - it can be whatever the GM wants it to be, or a
total myth.
I like the way Mulvihill is handling most of this. He's emphasizing the
elements of the game that he think make it distinctive. The urban
setting, the punk feel, the megacorps, the organized crime, and so on,
and downplaying the elements that head SR toward being just another FRP.
At the same time, he's leaving enough hooks in the game so that if I
disagree when his preferences, I don't have to rewrite everything to do
it the way I prefer. For instance, IEs - I happen to like them. The SR
mileau makes sense whether IEs are real or a myth.
If I had my druthers, everything in the game would be written this way,
but that's impossible. Try to imagine an SR world where the whole return
of magic really didn't happen, for instance. I give FASA & Mike credit
for implementing as much as they have as could be true/could just be a
rumor.
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