After FASA closed its doors, I lost track of what has happened to the Earthdawn franchise. So I was pretty surprised that the current license holder, RedBrick Ltd., is actually releasing a 3rd Edition of Earthdawn. Earthdawn was a pretty cool game with a truly original setting that broke with a lot of fantasy clichés but the rules were a pain. I really hope that RedBrick has managed to make the 3rd Edition rules a real improvement over the FASA rules. But at least the covers of the first core books look pretty sweet:
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They haven’t announced when the books will be released, but the books were already sent to the printer a few days ago. By the way, has anyone played the second edition of Earthdawn? Or does anyone know what RedBrick will change in the 3rd Edition?
From what I've gathered it's largely the same system. It's updated, a bit, with some of the options, errata, and changes that have been made over time but the basic system is still unchanged. Which, for me, isn't bad really. I never had a problem with the system… I caught on to the steps and even had the first 20 die steps memorized, but I know a lot of people had trouble with it.
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Hey ho,
there is no overview released yet, that shows all the changes of classic to third edition. I gathered most of the forum questions concerning the upcoming changes.
But a free demo adventure called Misguided Ambitions was released that introduces the new system. I'd recommend to have a look and play it.
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