Earthdawn Alternative Systems: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 16:40, 21 March 2026

Publishing history of Earthdawn:

First Edition is the original game created and published by FASA Corporation in 1993.
Second Edition was published by Living Room Games in 2001.
Classic Edition was published by RedBrick Limited in 2005.
Third Edition was published by RedBrick LLC and Mongoose Publishing in 2009.
Revised Edition was published by FASA Games, Inc. in 2012.
Fourth Edition was published by FASA Games, Inc. in 2016, funded by Kickstarter

Alternate systems for Earthdawn

Earthdawn: The Age of Legend uses a slimmed down rule set, a customized version of FU: The Freeform, Universal RPG. This game has an official license.
An official Savage Worlds version. Not heavily supported.
An official Pathfinder version. Not heavily supported.
Earthdawn Genesys, a fan-made port to the Genesys system
Wardens of Barsaive uses the Minimal d6 system to support Earthdawn in four pages.
Fourth World is a “drift” of Dungeon World for playing in the Earthdawn setting.
After Sanctuary is an experimental d12 PbtA design to support settings like Earthdawn.
You can find blog or forum threads with half-formed musings on moving Earthdawn to:
- d20
- D&D 5e
- Dungeon Crawl Classics
- GURPS
- Hero Quest
- MERP

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 * [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dkdPrvJ3UWZi45WYbflNQ82MkSMXbyTd/view Wardens of Barsaive] uses the Minimal d6 system to support ''Earthdawn'' in four pages.
 * [https://divnull.com/blog/tags/fourth-world/ Fourth World] is a “drift” of ''Dungeon World'' for playing in the ''Earthdawn'' setting.
+* [https://wordmanward.itch.io/after-sanctuary After Sanctuary] is an experimental d12 PbtA design to support settings like ''Earthdawn''.
 * You can find blog or forum threads with half-formed musings on moving ''Earthdawn'' to:
 ** [http://earthdawn.20m.com/ d20]