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hank_woon:
Is anyone aware of any fan attempts to convert Earthdawn to SR5?

I've always been more of an Earthdawn gamer, but my group and I played a lot of SR back in the SR2 days. Been trying to keep up since, and have most of the books, but haven't actually *played* any of the editions since. Always wanted to run an ED/SR crossover campaign, and one of the hangups would be getting a group to have to learn 2 separate systems. I've always liked the SR rules more, so thought I'd give it a crack. Started converting Earthdawn books, got through a lot of the 1st Edition rules, but then realized that -- given I've never actually played SR5 -- I might be making some tremendous mistakes. So I'm hoping somewhere out there this work has already been done by someone more qualified than me.
 

Spooky:
Not by me, but it is an interesting idea......

hmmmmm

PiXeL01:
It’s an interesting idea indeed, but the amounts of work that would need to go into it would be staggering

OneSidedDie:
Each game has it's own atmosphere it's trying to convey and I think they both do their jobs well using the rules they have.

Earthdawn is about grand heroics and spreading your legend while exploring a world that has been ravaged and untouched by people for 400 years.
It does this by giving you LP (legend points) not only by defeating monsters, but collecting trophies, treasure, and even telling other people about your adventures (seriously, you get LP for turning in a diary at the great library and get paid for it).
Healing is quick and easy which leads to toe to toe heroic combats.

Shadowrun is about subverting the system in a world where the rich and powerful have already won. You get karma for doing jobs and surviving with a little extra for doing it for a good cause. Combat is deadly and healing is slow or expensive. This leads to avoiding fights when possible or planning for them smartly.

Earthdawn dice all explode leading to larger than life heroics. Shadowrun dice are more of a calculated numbers game.

Now, I'm not saying that you shouldn't do this. I ALWAYS mix my 4th world peanut butter with my 6th world chocolate but it's the stories and interconnected history that I mix together.

Stretching the metaphor a bit, just changing the wrapper for that candy won't make it taste any better.

hank_woon:

--- Quote from: PiXeL01 on ---It’s an interesting idea indeed, but the amounts of work that would need to go into it would be staggering

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In that case, would you -- or anyone else on this thread -- be willing to look over the work I've already put into it, and help steer it in the right direction?

So far I've "converted" the 1st Edition Core Rulebook, the Earthdawn Companion, the Barsaive Boxed Set, The Adept's Way, Magic: A Manual of Mystic Secrets, and about 75% of Arcane Mysteries of Barsaive.

My design goal was to find a way to retain the flavor of Earthdawn -- Circles, Karma Points, Spell Matrices, Threads, et al -- but try to remain as elegant as possible within the rules of SR5. I wanted to keep the idea that the adept of this era are slightly more powerful than in the 6th World. But I'm sure I've unnecessarily duplicated certain rules or made them more complicated than they should be, or underpowered/overpowered, and every other design sin. Admittedly, it's rushed and a little sloppy, but I kind of figured I would just get something working going, so when I finally could get a campaign going, I could adjust as play went along.

 

 

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