(Mongoose) Earthdawn Sale

MongooseMatt · Jan 3, 2012

All Earthdawn books have had their prices greatly reduced (many are now less than half the original price), starting at just £10 or $14.99.

This will only go on for as long as current stocks last, and it is first come, first served!

US Site: Earthdawn
UK Site: Earthdawn

Treebore · Jan 3, 2012

I'm not familiar with the line, so $19.99 for the GMG is the sale price? I would not be confused if I saw an original retail price and then what the sale price is.

Reynard · Jan 4, 2012

As long as we're here: can someone who is familiar outline the significant differences, if any, between 2nd and 3rd edition ED? ED is, by far, my favorite "not-D&D but really D&D" on the market, all the way back to 1st Edition.

MongooseMatt · Jan 4, 2012

Treebore said:
I'm not familiar with the line, so $19.99 for the GMG is the sale price?

It is - normally $39.95.

Voadam · Jan 4, 2012

Treebore said:
I'm not familiar with the line, so $19.99 for the GMG is the sale price? I would not be confused if I saw an original retail price and then what the sale price is.

The Game Master's Guide is a 304 page book and covers rules, campaign advice, setting info, magic items, and a bestiary.

Earthdawn was originally done by FASA and this is sort of like Shadowrun's version of their ancient high magic mythic age the way Exalted was for World of Darkness. Both sort of started out with that as a hidden premise then developed off in their own ways. So you get orcs and trolls as PC races plus new ones of obsidimen and windlings, etc.

mach1.9pants · Jan 4, 2012

Sold! The 40$ price put me off but I am in now.

Jhaelen · Jan 5, 2012

Reynard said:
As long as we're here: can someone who is familiar outline the significant differences, if any, between 2nd and 3rd edition ED? ED is, by far, my favorite "not-D&D but really D&D" on the market, all the way back to 1st Edition.

Well, wasn't 2nd edition the one published by Livingroom Games? If, so, you'd best forget it ever existed.

Redbrick's 3rd edition is definitely the best edition of the game yet. They've spent a lot of time reorganizing all of the exisiting 1st ed. material and have fixed just about every issue I've had with the original rules.

I'm not even sure where to start, there's so many great changes (though at it's core, the system hasn't changed).

Some highlights from the top of my head:
- they got rid of the d20 and d4
- every class has a bunch of set class talents and a list of optional ones to pick from now
- races, talents, skills and spells have been rebalanced
- advancement rates and multiclassing rules has been changed
- monsters now have levels and monster creation rules have been greatly improved

It's been a while since I read the books and unfortunately my ED group decided to stick with the 1st ed. books since they're the only edition available in German

Matrix Sorcica · Jan 5, 2012

Jhaelen said:
- races, talents, skills and spells have been rebalanced

Sadly, a great deal of Talents are still woefully underpowered bordering on useless. This is my major beef with Earthdawn, keeping me from playing the game.

Voadam · Jan 5, 2012

RedBrick reduced their prices on 3e Earthdawn PDFs to match the physical book sale.

They've gone from very expensive to merely expensive.

Treebore · Jan 5, 2012

Voadam said:
RedBrick reduced their prices on 3e Earthdawn PDFs to match the physical book sale.

They've gone from very expensive to merely expensive.

Tis a shame, my PDF requirement is 50% of retail, and the only core book, as far as I can identify not knowing the RPG, is the GMG. If they had just lowered the other books by about $2.50 I would have bought into this to see what its all about, and if I liked it I would have then ordered from Mongoose.

Maybe I'll get the GMG to see, and if that impresses me just buy the print copies from Mongoose.