| From: | Tim Kerby drekhead@***.net |
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| Subject: | DRAGONS Available |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:32:29 -0500 |
> Just because they've been releasing books doesn't mean anyone's been
> buying them in great numbers. They haven't been dead for years in a
> literal sense. Figuratively however, they've been dead since they started
> and they started dragging Shadowrun with them with all those "kewl"
> crossovers.
And wrote:
>Earthdawn, initially designed to ride some of the popularity of
>Shadowrun with the hints about the two being intertwined somehow,
>became a gaming leech. Though it was a game system of its own right
>it only really managed to hold in as a seller because of its ties to
>Shadowrun. Finally, even that couldn't sustain it (you can only go
>so far with the IEs before you run out of interesting historical
>figures) and it died. End of story. Now I hope everyone can forget
>half the stupid IE ideas and ED crossovers with half-horror IEs and
>so on, and get on with a decent game.
I only have one thing to say : "PREACH ON, BROTHER!"
This isn't a Reese's Cup we are talking about here. Earthdawn and
Shadowrun are two great tastes, but they do not taste great together
(like the chocolate and peanut butter in the old Reese's Cup
commercials).
Linking them together killed Earthdawn, and damn near killed
Shadowrun (at least for me) until the present developers got it back
on track to it's cyberpunk roots.
I remember a couple years ago I overheard two people talking in a
game store. The one guy picked up an Earthdawn book, and asked
"What's this?" The other guy yawned and said "Another Fantasy RPG."
The first guy nodded and put the Earthdawn book down. A few minutes
later, he picked up a Shadowrun book. "What's this?", he asked again.
"Oh, that's Earthdawn with guns." "How stupid." "Yup." He
then put
that down as well, and then they bought some Magic cards and left.
Moral to this story? Perception is reality.
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