A new player joins your group and he/she never played Earthdawn before. You pass him/her information about Earthdawn, the world, the history, the Namegivers and so on. And of course he/she creates a character.

To encourage the player to reflect the characters history and get a feeling for his character’s attitude I made a questionnaire from several sources that provides Earthdawn specific questions that help to flesh out an Earthdawn character.

Beside those questions that help to build your characters history it is important that you give your character several personality traits. A choice of personality traits is given in the sourcebooks chapter “Character Creation”.

If you have already built your own questionnaire and want to add something, just leave a comment.

The 3 Google Wave accounts for the commenters go to:

1. seaofstarsrpg
2. Deinol
3. Shannon

The other 2 invites for my followers go to:

1. MkaY
2. Asaraludu

Congratulation! I would have given all of you an invitation but random.org made my decision much easier.

I gonna contact the winners. If some of the winners aren’t contacted soon, please let me know.

Wave? High? What’s going on?

 

Today I received my invitation for Google Wave. For all those who never heard of it watch this info video.

But that’s not all, I additionally received further invitations for Google Wave. I will pass two invitations to my current 6 followers and spent the remaining 3 invitations randomly to those who comment on this post until the end of Tuesday Nov. 17th! But please don’t just comment like “Here I want…”. Tell a little bit about your Earthdawn history or your current character you’re playing (Name, adepthood, circle etc.). If you’re not playing Earthdawn tell about which RPG your currently into.

 

The winners will be picked randomly and announced on Wednesday Nov. 18th. I can’t tell you how long it’ll take till you get your invitations from Google.

 

By the way, several articles were already written about using Google Wave for gaming online:

• Gaming with Google Wave @ The Dice of Life
• Playing Online @ The Spirits of Eden

• Read a playtesting of Misguided Ambitions on Endless Bag of Dice
• “Naming the unnamed” a pretty new site of Faelan about his actual Earthdawn campaign
• Mongoose Publishing offers a monthly free magazine called “Signs &  Portents”, in the issue November 09 nr. 74 an Earthdawn adventure “Buried Truths” is included and September 09 nr. 72 edition offers “a collection of weird and wonderful tainted animals and plants”. Enjoy! (found via earthdawn.pl)
• Which Earthdawn miniatures do exist and how do they look like? Find out at the “Earthdawn Miniatures Gallery” that Drucifier opened up on the RedBrick forum. NOTE: don’t comment on his gallery, read and leave comments here. 
• Looking for ancient, nethermantic scrolls? 

Yesterday I discovered those Earthdawn Spell Cards on the RedBrick forum. This great fanwork made by Maskhim shows again what the Earthdawn community stands for, from fans for fans.
I got the permission of Maskhim to upload his files. He made two versions of his spellcards with sheets of 2x2 and 3x3 cards on it, but see for yourself.

UPDATE
I just published this post as I received message of Maskhim that he recently added some new landscape spell cards that got a different layout and are more graphical, but again see for yourself. Note all cards are editable!!!
 
UPDATE #2

Maskhim just published on the Earthdawn forum his translation of the Earthdawn Spellcards. Now you can download a german and a polish version of the Earthdawn Spellcards!

If you like to use cards in your Earthdawn game, maybe you should have a look at the Combat Cards
Links:

• 2x2 Spellcard sheet (mirror)
• 3x3 Spellcard sheet (mirror)
• 2x2 Landscape card sheet (mirror)
• 3x3 Landscape card sheet (mirror)
• 2x2 Polish version (mirror)
• 2x2 German version (mirror)