From:	David Yiannakos yiannako@*******.edu
Subject:	Earthdawn
Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:46:23 -0400

| The Scourge and the Horrors were the only original things I found in ED,
and
| those were tied to SR. All of the independant ED threads read like AD&D.
| Magicians are common in fantasy RPGs, Therans are your typical oppressive
| ruling state, and dragons have been around for eternity. You come to ED
from
| SR expecting a dangerous and dark past of great magic, and end up in a
mock
| AD&D game. Or worse, the Windlings appear and suddenly you're in Willow.
| -Twist


I think you're generalizing too much, Twist. Any role-playing setting is
going to have common elements with other games in the same setting. That's
what a setting is. Fantasy games have Dragons and Magicians, Futuristic
Games have guns and high technology, Vampire games have blood drinking.
While I don't like playing fantasy games as much as I enjoy playing other
genres, (I find it not as easy to role play) if I am going to play fantasy,
ED is the most interesting concept I have seen. It seems to me that it is a
little more "mature" (for lack of a better word) than AD&D. It's more
thinking about character development (in stats _and_ personality) than about
killing things constantly. (At least in my group, {yeah, yeah, go
Knights!}). Your character becomes more of a person rather than just a bunch
of stats.

just my 2cp/nuyen feel free to disagree...

--Dave ('s not here man)

P.S. How come every time a negative view of ED is brought up, someone (or
several someones) blast windlings? What does everyone have against them? I
play one and I love it. (And no one else in my party seems pissed at him.)