From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Martin Little) |
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Subject: | Target Wastelands and ED/SR connection... |
Date: | Mon Jul 29 13:25:01 2002 |
> According to Rob Harris, on Mon, 29 Jul 2002 the word on the street was...
>
> > How does Earthdawn relate to Shadowrun at all? I have read the Harlequin
> > adventures (granted, awhile ago), and I don't remember any connection to
> > Earthdawn at all! Can someone fill me in on how the two worlds are
> > connected?
>
> The short answer is that ED is SR's history. However, this connection
> didn't exist when the first Harlequin adventure was published, because ED
> probably wasn't even an idea yet at the time. By Harlequin's Back, ED had
> been published, making the links fairly easy to spot if you know a bit
> about both games.
>
>
(Topic almost guaranteed to create a froth of activity :) )
Anyone else notice in the first story of Target:Wastelands that the soon
creation of the spell matrix was hinted at?
In earthdawn casters draw power through astral constructs to avoid damage
from corrupt (high background count) astral space.