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JULY 2001

July 2001

Contents

B OOK OF T OMORROW

The EDPT’s Earthdawn Fanzine

6 Turnabout is Fair Play by Simon Withers

A spice merchant cries foul play when his livelihood

is threatened. An adventure for low-Circle characters.

How to Reach Us

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c/o S. Keith Graham

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Roswell, GA 30075

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15 The Little Judge and the Most Wise

by Kathleen E. Czechkowski

The Little Judge faces a challenging case in this tale from Cathay.

16 Peril Erkart and the Halls of Death

by Mark Watkins

An obsidiman Nethermancer bargains with Death to inspire a scorcher

band to victory.

18 The Ways of Nethermancy by Mark Watkins

Obar Stastes, obsidiman Nethermancer, dispels some misconceptions

about those who follow his Discipline.

19 The Hunter’s Folly by Attila Hatvagner

Thirst for revenge turns hunter into hunted. A tale, creature statistics,

and adventure ideas.

22 A Plea for Silence by Jan Kilger

A lahala’s boldness and wit earns a weapon to protect her people. A tale

and magical item well suited for a long-term campaign.

24 Festivals of Barsaive by Kathleen E. Czechkowski

A sampling of the more unusual celebrations held in Barsaive, along

with adventure ideas, items, and other goodies.

35 On the Wandering of Souls by Jan Kilger

Contacting the dead can be dificult, and the answers gleaned from spir-

its are often unsatisfactory. This could be why.

37 A New Beginning by Peter Lydall

Savage murders and a stranger set a town on edge.

40 El Kabong! by Kathleen E. Czechkowski

This tongue-in-cheek magic item may lighten up your game.

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Submission Guidelines

Submission guidelines are available at

the EDPT Web site (see URL below)

or by sending an e-mail message to

edpteditor@yahoo.com.

Deadline for issue four:

August 30, 2001

Coming in Issue 3:

• Ash Phantoms: A new creature

• Accents of Barsaive

Add lavor to your in-character

dialog with this game aid

• Blood Duels

This optional rule allows players to

engage in dramatic duels

• The Town of Farram

This setting is more than it seems

on the surface

• Lest ye...

A tale of revenge—and relection

• Veins of Throal (see preview, p. 40)

An exploitable weakness revealed

Editor’s Notes....................................3

Legal Information.............................4

Earthdawn Abbreviations................4

Advertisement...................................6

Tip: Using Style Guides.................15

Tip: When Writing Adventures....17

Tip: Racial terms............................21

Tip: Capitalization..........................36

For more information, please visit the EDPT Web site:

http://www.earthdawn.com/edpt/

On the cover:

Image © Nikodemus Siivola

EDITOR’S NOTES

Your choice of two

Book of Tomorrow

June 2001 • Issue 2

There is a well known joke in the publishing industry, one that I think is particularly

apt at the publication (several months behind schedule) of our second issue:

You can have it CHEAP

PUBLISHING

P UBLISHER E ARTHDAWN P UBLISHING T RUST

You can have it GOOD

You can have it FAST

(Pick any combination of two)

EDITORIAL

I NTERIM E DITOR S AKO E ATON

A SSISTANT E DITOR K ATHY C ZECHKOWSKI

C ONTRIBUTING E DITORS E LEANOR F ISCHER

The joke here, of course, is that it is not possible to publish a product that is all of

those three things at once. Inexpensive publications that are published in a hurry are

rarely good; high quality publications that are published in a hurry are never inexpen-

sive; and high quality, inexpensive publications are not very fast.

As a free publication, one of our variables is already ixed—“cheap” has already

been selected. We at the Earthdawn Publishing Trust would like to think that the

Book of Tomorrow is also good, which means that it may not always be fast.

Does this mean that the Book of Tomorrow will become an annual publication?

We strongly doubt it. Our production process is still being ine tuned and new people

are being trained to handle different aspects of the job. With the production of Issue

2, our staff welcomed two new faces: Shane Hyde, who will be our new production

manager, and Eleanor Fischer, who will be our second Associate Editor. Chris Zar-

nosky has also volunteered to join our editorial staff, starting with Issue 4. So, as you

might expect, our production schedule will become more manageable as we distribute

the workload among the members of our growing production staff.

There will no doubt be some who will say that our release of Issue 2 is too little,

too late. Indeed, much of the content in this issue has been online for some time.

What we would like these people to remember, however, is that we are trying to do

more than simply produce a fanzine. We are attempting to build a system that will

allow fans to take an active role the game’s development in ways never before possi-

ble—and, of course, we are trying to do it in our spare time. We do hope that fans will

be patient if we fall behind schedule (and not simply assume that EDPT has quietly

died). Once we get our production process standardized, it won’t happen often.

We do recognize, however, that people do not want to wait for months before the

material they contribute is published (and that people need some sign that their con-

tributions will see the light of day if they are going to continue to contribute). With

these things in mind, we have been streamlining our editorial process with an eye on

decreasing the turnaround time on contributions.

It is for these reasons (and also to give our production staff more time to synchro-

nize our systems) that we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions for our

fourth issue. The new deadline is August 30, 2001 .

D AMIAN S HARP

PRODUCTION

P RODUCTION M ANAGER S HANE H YDE

A RT D IRECTOR I NGE V ERMEYLEN

P UBLISING C ONSULTANT S AKO E ATON

W EB D EVELOPER S. K EITH G RAHAM

W EBMASTER

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

W RITERS : K ATHLEEN E. C ZECHKOWSKI ,

A TTILA H ATVAGNER , J AN K ILGER , C HRIS

P ERKETT , M ARK W ATKINS , P ETER L YDALL

A RTISTS : R ITA M ÁRFÖLDI , N IKODEMUS

S IIVOLA

ONLINE

E ARTHDAWN P UBLISHING T RUST

http://www.earthdawn.com/edpt

EDPT MAILING LIST AND ARCHIVES

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edpt-l

EDITORIAL POLICY

The views and opinions expressed in this

publication are those of their respective

authors and are not necessarily those of

the EDPT. The Book of Tomorrow

shall be kept scrupulously and faithfully

open to expression of all viewpoints of

interest and concern to the Earthdawn

community and interpretive comment

shall be encouraged.

Contribute and win—Simon did it, you can too!

Although it has taken us a while to announce the results, our irst contest was very

successful. So successful, in fact, that we decided to divide the entries and produce not

one but two issues! Given such great results, we have decided to award a copy of the

most recently released Earthdawn product to the individual or group that contributes

the best article (as determined by our editors) for each issue . Given that each issue is

made up of work from a handful of authors (usually between ive and seven), your

chances of winning a prize are pretty good.

EDPT would like to extend its congratulations to Simon Withers, who won a copy

of Barsaive at War for his contribution to this issue. Check out his mini-adventure,

Turnabout is Fair Play , on page 6.

CORRECTION

Inge Vermeylen's name was misspelled

on page 2 of our last issue. The

EDPT regrets the error and has made a

corrected version available.

NOTICE

Some of the illustrations in this issue

come from copyright-free collections.

S AKO E ATON

LEGAL INFORMATION

(and Earthdawn Abbreviations)

L EGAL I NFORMATION

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of this publication.

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Listed authors and artists retain the copyright for all contributions contained herein. Unless otherwise indicated, all other

trademarks in this publication should not be viewed as a challenge to those copyrights or trademarks. Any use of copy-

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by applicable law.

ED Earthdawn

EDC Earthdawn Companion

EGM Earthdawn Gamemaster Pack

D1 Denizens of Earthdawn, Vol. I

D2 Denizens of Earthdawn, Vol. II

LE Legends of Earthdawn

CoB Creatures of Barsaive

AW The Adept’s Way

HOR Horrors

SR Serpent River

BE Book of Exploration

TDK Throal: The Dwarf Kingdom

ESG Earthdawn Survival Guide

BW Blood Wood

TE Theran Empire

SS Secret Societies of Barsaive

CR Crystal Raiders of Barsaive

CF The Ork Nation of Cara Fahd

DRG Dragons

MMS Magic: A Manual of Mystic Secrets

AM Arcane Mysteries of Barsaive

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