These days Earthdawn celebrates its 20th birthday. Earthdawn was introduced at GenCon 19th August 1993 and since then we saw various Earthdawn editions, many sourcebooks and several publishers which took command of the Earthdawn product line……..

Nevertheless it is one of the few great high fantasy RPG’s out there, with a great setting, complex stories and great adventures. 20 years, where fans all over the world got connected cause they play, played, want to play or simply heard of Earthdawn where “the heroes of today are the legends of tomorrow” – King Varulus III of Throal.

Birthday present?

Well, I got there two final quizzes for you, which were created with the help of Sethariel (thx).

Final quizzes, right! I had quite a bunch of Earthdawn Quizzes on the blog now which can be found at the quiz section.

It’s been a while since the last Earthdawn quiz was published and to give this series a good ending, these last two shall take you on a small journey of 20 years of Earthdawn. Enjoy.

About a week ago Sethariel posted a nice information on the Google+ Earthdawn community about a PDF of Carsten Damm aka Dammi. The post title says it all, the PDF is an Outline for the Chronicles of War project of the former Earthdawn publisher RedBrick LLC. So what about the 18 pages outline PDF?

This document was a first draft outline for the Chronicles of War project, the proposed final book in the Earthdawn Third Edition line. The core ideas were brainstormed in a larger team, and many of the details of that brainstorming would have made it into the final book if it had made it into the development queue

It would have been the first epic campaign published by RedBrick. In my opinion the original Chronicles of War campaign wasn’t/isn’'t that good at all, but an epic campaign in general was always the thing Earthdawn needed. But today …… yes today …… things are “different”.

Did some of you recently have a look at the Facebook page of Tableau Infractus? No, I just did today, since a long time…..

You might discover there a nice link to the site of Jett Cat where she provides a nice collection of Earthdawn cards.

I recently wrote about some interesting crowd funding RPG projects, wherein a Kickstarter project for professional MP3 background loops for RPGs was mentioned. The project for these MP3 files was funded successfully.

As a gamemaster it is always hard to find good background music or atmospheric sounds that fit your game. Sometimes a gamemaster has to create his own sound, sometimes you can use some existing sound.

Background music and music for use in RPGs in general was already several times a topic on the Earthdawn Blog. The two most interesting projects so far were the Free Nature Sounds and the Roleplaying music by Erdenstern.

The latest RPG music project, I was made aware of (thx to  Kyn), is the Realmsound Project by Orange County Gaming Group. Of course it is a Kickstarter project and there are still some days left to get it funded. Here’s a small example of what we can expect from this project:

The recently announced Earthdawn Appreciation Day was yesterday and I am a little bit late but nevertheless, here’s my late contribution.

Based on this article at Inkwell ideas I made up an Earthdawn study & research topics table.  The table should give Gamemasters a short overview of book titles, the players could see when they have a short look at a bookshelf.

- Creatures

• Habitats of the Griffon near the Tylon mountains
• Ecology of Cave Crabs
• Behavior of the common wolf
• Reproduction behavior of Espagras
• Treatise on salt water fish's near Urupa

- Cities

• Common clothes of Travar
• Boarding rules of Urupa haven
• Violence rates in Throal / Bethabal
• Heraldry of Throal families

- Landscapes

• Old trading routes
• The Hills around Kratas 
• A Windsailors thoughts on the Throal mountains
• Storm season of the Tylon mountains

- Trading / Financial / Faith

• A merchants treatise on trading routes (for campsites, state of some routes in southern Barsaive etc.)
• Trading houses of Throal
• Analysis of financial benefits in Travar
• The superiority  of Chorollis