It lasted into 3rd Ed, then there was the 'death of FASA' and later the 'death of FanPro' and with that several years of 'Shadowrun is dead' (on forums and from store-owners who didn't know better because they didn't deign to research even a single fucking google-search.) during its 4th Edition, which also was different enough to finally split off a good deal of the older, engaged fans into the 'I've got my 1st to 3rd books and fan stuff, and I don't need anything more.' grouping of RPG players.Р”Тђth Edition promised to bring some of that engagement back, and it certainly fired me up to create some stuff, but then.

Probably not what you wanted, but I would love to see an interpretation of Earthdawn using the Shaowrun system.Р”В¬lick to expand.You basically missed Shadowrun's 'golden era' of fan engagement. In the end I just felt that moving to another system was a better investment in my time than using the assumptions and crunch of Shadowrun. The question became what system would support all the moving parts that I wanted without having to resort to using a low-crunch system that seemed to involved a lot of hand waving. Ultimately this would set up a rather long process of using generic systems to try and fill the space for a crossover game for Earthdawn, Shadowrun, and (numbers filed off) Equinox. On reflection, strangely enough the mechanics on magic didn't quite support the 'fluff'/background that I was after either. Well, it didn't seem to work out that well at the time. I started with the Shadowrun system as that was the obvious choice and. I've actually wanted to do the whole Earthdawn/Shadowrun thing for the longest of times. Shadowrun is one of those systems that made me realise that system does matter-though perhaps not as much as some people would have it. There's not even much for the base system other than a few fragments here and there.Р”В®dit: I just remembered that there was one major Fallout conversion I found and built on. Homebrew would be a good chassis to build on but my searches keep coming up empty.

The background to this is I kind of want to run Earthdawn using Shadowrun's system, but I've had ideas for other near-future magic and chrome settings, like the Cthulhutech/the Void crossover I sometimes tinker with. Is there some secret homebrew trove out there that I'm missing? I found one brief PDF of homebrewed spells but that's it. Looking around for any kind of conversion, I find a lot of threads about using Shadowrun to run anything other than Shadowrun is a bad idea, a few people who mentioned they did Ghost in the Shell or medieval Shadowrun and provide no details, and almost no fan-made splatbooks or supplements. It seems to me like there's a surprising lack of Shadowrun homebrew, especially comparing it to D&D, whose oceans of homebrew are a hobby byword or Exalted, which also has much-derided rules and a beloved setting but which has multiple fan-made expansions, including entirely new Exalt types, conversions etc.

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