The Earthdawn Brief Description

[LADRILLON]

Hi:

When describing the Earthdawn game to players w/out any knowledge of it, how would you do it, succinctly, like in one or two sentences?


Thanks!
L

[Telarus_KSC]

In a post-apocalyptic sword & sorcery land (where lovecraftian Horrors came from beyond space during the dark night of the Scourge to eat the land and it's Namegiver peoples), heroes and villains known as Adepts fight to claim a piece of the action, treasure, and legendary status in a new age of high magic. Population centers must discover their lands a-new after emerging from the magical underground shelters known as Kaers. A ravenous empire over the southern horizon thirsts for raw resources (including people) to fuel its ever expanding war machine. Far to the east, the Dragons rule openly... here in Barsaive it is best to assume otherwise.

[LADRILLON]

Hi:

I thought the Therans (the southern Empire, right?) we pretty much defeated in 3rd Edition. Were they?


L

[Telarus_KSC]

No, that was a 2nd Edition plotline, Barsaive At War (produced by Living Room Games.... which I have played through actually). 3rd Edition is not a continuation of 2nd (different companies).

3rd Edition is a continuation of 1st/Classic*, and the time-line ends when the Therans land their flying castle on top of the Ayodya Liferock near Lake Ban. The K'tenshin T'skrang House of the Nine Diamonds actually has an internal faction comprised entirely of Therans, and House K'tenshin controls the river (and river-based plantations) for miles and miles around the southern Serpent. Vivane is still theirs, and they continue to grab chunks of Landis (and other parts of Vivane province) by posting forward garrisons. In the current setting, the Therans control a large amount of South and Southwestern Barsaive's population centers.

*ED Classic was the "Big Red Brick" edition, a compilation and slight editing/streamlining of all the 1st Edition material.

[LADRILLON]

Hi:

Could these [Living Room Game's 2nd E] cycles (Prelude to War, War & Aftermath) still be played in 3rdE timeline as it stands?


Thanks!
L

[ukhata]

even in the barsaive at war series all we barsaivans defeated was like 1 or 2 bataljons.
they have like 20 more or so. which are busy keeping order in indrisia, marac, vivaine etc etc etc.
basicly they have no more time to waste on us for fear of losing more.