Monday, May 13, 2013

Earthdawn Appreciation Day June 14th, 2013 (Official Launch)


On June 14th we will be celebrating one of the best Role-Playing Games to ever be produced (In my opinion). How can you participate? By creating some new and fun content for Earthdawn and posting it to your blog, G+ or by emailing your submission to me at epicrpgblog@gmail.com on June 14th. Reply to this post to add your blog to the blogroll of participants. The Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day had over 100 blogs participating, I'd be happy with that many.

FASA Games, Inc has put up some prize support,
via Drivethru RPG with 100% discount vouchers. (requires valid email address)
First prize = choice of any 4 Earthdawn PDFs
Second prize = choice of any 2 Earthdawn PDFs
Third prize = choice of any 1 Earthdawn PDFs
product from the current or back-catalogs
I will have the Following Earthdawn alumni as Guest Judges, Steven Black, Andrew Ragland, and Hank Woon.

Create new original content for Earthdawn (Including Savage Worlds and Pathfinder editions). This can include, but is not limited to:
Thread Items
Adventures
Artwork
Card Games
Charts & Tables
Cities
Equipment
Horrors
Maps 
Monsters
Mundane Flora and Fauna
Namegivers
New Disciplines 
New Sections of the Map (South Africa, Antarctica, Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu, Australia, North/South America, Greenland...The Moon, Mars?)
New Settings (Using Earthdawn Rules in a new setting)
New Talents
NPCs 
System Conversions (Earthdawn Setting in different ruleset.)

I'm setting the date to June 14th, 2013. Entries should be done by midnight on the 14th, so we can use the cool new material for the Free RPG Day!!!

NOTE! All content submitted for Earthdawn Appreciation Day remains your intellectual property, I will lay no claim to your IP nor responsibility for any copyright infringement you commit. If I am informed that your entry infringes on someone else IP, the entry will be disqualified and the Link removed. No Challenge is created to the Earthdawn Intellectual properties, all IP remains the property of their respective copyright holders. All rules subject to change.

If you wish to release your work under CCNA, add a rider to your work stating that it is released under Creative Commons.

If you wish to participate, put a link to your blog in the comments of this post, I will create a separate blogroll  specifically for EAD2013. Multiple entries will be allowed, however remember, that more is not always better, entries should be really impressive, a single well written article will beat out multiple poorly written articles. Note also, that only 1 prize will be awarded per person, so even if you enter 5 amazing pieces, you can still only win 1 prize. Though the community will love it, and the Judges will see it as well. 
  
 (I'm still looking for additional sponsors as well, so if you'd like your name attached to this fun project, something as little as a $5 gift certificate prize would be a welcome addition. Contact me at the email address above.)

EDIT: If you're going to participate and just send your entry in, PLEASE still let me know so I can keep track of how many people are participating. It may help in getting additional sponsors.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Earthdawn Appreciation Day Banner (In work)


So here's the working banner, any suggestions? This one's kind of large, I'll end up making smaller ones for you to post.

Earthdawn Appreciation Day - My personal contribution

In addition to my other writing I'm doing, as part of the Earthdawn Appreciation Day, I'm going to update my old Merits/Flaws system I did for Earthdawn to 3rd edition. (I would do it for Revised, but I don't own revised).
APPRECIATION DAY - June 14th

From the first time I played Earthdawn I loved it, I was already tired of 2nd edition AD&D, and Earthdawn was just so different, it instantly changed the way I thought about Role-Playing Games, yes it had levels, but it also had the little addictive increases.

Legend Points instead of Experience
Legendary Thread Items instead of tossing away the old sword for the shiny new sword. It increased with you, it required your own power to make it better, and you had to perform deeds!! AMAZING.
The Magic system was just so different from the Vancian fire and forget system. Weaving threads and utilizing skills to cast.
The step system is easy to use once you know what you're doing. And exploding dice make it so much better.

More as we get closer.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

1st Annual Earthdawn Appreciation Day June 14th

So as a LONG time Earthdawn fan. I have decided to Create an Earthdawn Appreciation Day like the Swords & Wizardry  Appreciation Day put on my Tenkar's Tavern and Dorkland blogs.

APPRECIATION DAY - June 14th


Create new original content for Earthdawn. This can include, but is not limited to:
Thread Items
Adventures
Horrors
Cities
Monsters
Namegivers
Tables
Charts
Maps
NPCs
New Sections of the Map (South Africa, Antarctica, Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu, Australia, North/South America, Greenland...The Moon, Mars?)
New Disciplines
New Talents
Equipment

Savage Worlds and Pathfinder Versions are acceptable as well.


Prizes (edited)
FASA Games via Drivethru RPG with 100% discount vouchers. (requires valid email address)

First prize = choice of any 4 Earthdawn PDFs
Second prize = choice of any 2 Earthdawn PDFs
Third prize = choice of any 1 Earthdawn PDFs
product from the current or back-catalogs


Judges
Myself
Steven Black
Andrew Ragland
Hank Woon (Cathay Sourcebooks, and work on RedBrick's 3rd edition of Earthdawn!)
awaiting information on additional guest judges

I'm setting the date to June 14th, 2013. Entries should be done by Midnight on the 14th, so we can use the cool new material for the Free RPG Day!!!


NOTE! All content submitted for Earthdawn Appreciation Day remains your intellectual property, I will lay no claim to your IP nor responsibility for any copyright infringement you commit. If I am informed that your entry Infringes on someone else IP, the entry will be disqualified and the Link removed. No Challenge is created to the Earthdawn Intellectual properties, all IP remains the property of their respective copyright holders.

If you wish to release your work in CCNA, add a rider to your work stating that it is released under Creative Commons.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Machinations of the Space Princess

If you haven't checked this out yet, you have to. Based upon the Lamentations of the Space Princess, but HEAVILY modified. This is amongst the OSR based systems, but HEAVILY modified.

Go to Post-Mordem Studios download the Rough playtest (version 2).

Warning, Mature Language included. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

Earthdawn Appreciation day...

Based Upon the overwhelming popularity of the Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day on Tenkar's Tavern I was wondering if I might run an Earthdawn Appreciation day.

I'm wondering what the level of interest might be...

Well this is the most liked post I've had so I think I will go ahead and see if I can get some prizes, and see about getting some cool guest judges.

Dungeon World links

Huh,

So I haven't been able to play Dungeon world yet, I know Mike Olson was running it at Gamex 2 years ago, but I didn't get to play in it. (it was full).

But this post by Jeremy Friesen has given me a lot to look at.

And then there's the original XML site that has the creative commons originals on it.

As Soon as I have time I'll be checking them out.