[Marzhin]

Well there's also that T'Skrang (or close enough -- the "lizardman changeling") that serves Lofwyr and appears in Missions and in Artifacts Unbound

[Michael Chandra]

I want to kill that guy.

[Crimsondude]

Heh.

Lizard, wood, stone, and bugmen; and Ganesh as changelings are all possible thanks to Runner's Companion. That's ... something.

[Maddoux1]

Good Luck to the bugmen, though!

[Red Canti]

Well, there's plenty of room for you over there in the Tin Foil Hat Brigade, but there is nothing in any of the text to support your conspiracy theories. This is the kind of thing that would make Plan 9 take a step back and say, "Yeah, that's a little too far out there for me."

I fragging doubt it. It's Plan 9 after all.

[Manyfist]

So why hasn't Catalyst bought Earthdawn?

[Sendaz]

Catalyst just is a subdivision of Topps, so probably doesn't have the finance for that by itself.

Convincing the higher ups to buy up a property that doesn't have quite the same draw and you have been separating yourself from is gonna be a hard sell because end of the day they are still a business and will look at the bottom line.

Would getting ED back be awesome? Sure.  Would it be profitable enough to warrant the outlay?  Well, that is the question isn't it?

[Michael Chandra]

Besides, iirc FASA has plans for ED. A FASA guy once posted at SRU I think.

[Mirikon]

Yeah, I heard somewhere that nu-FASA had plans for Earthdawn, and were also going to do games set in the 2nd, 6th, and 8th worlds. So, pretty difficult to put Shadowrun alongside that now.

[CanRay]

Besides, would you want someone like me writing for those games?

[Sendaz]

Besides, would you want someone like me writing for those games?

I will reserve judgement until after you pop out the NetCat/Toaster shipping fic.

[Mirikon]

Besides, would you want someone like me writing for those games?

I dunno. I expect you'd make an interesting go of the Outcast's relationship with his children, or how Icewing and Mountainshadow were able to turn true drakes into the kind that could breed.

[Reaver]

Seeing as how Earthdawn has changed hands several times since FASA (original) closed its doors, I don't think that franchise is very profitable... Or popular which makes it all the more unlikely that catalyst will/would pick it up...

[Crimsondude]

Perhaps it could be due to the glut of fantasy settings in tabletop RPGs, and that there are games which are much better in terms of mechanics and/or setting.

[Reaver]

Perhaps it could be due to the glut of fantasy settings in tabletop RPGs, and that there are games which are much better in terms of mechanics and/or setting.

Well, when you look at the fantasy games market, the big 2 right now seem to be pathfinder and D&D... And from there you have dozens of less well known titles (and Earthdawn). So yea, the fantasy market is pretty flooded....