Earthdawn Alternative Systems

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