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The Earthdawn Fandom is a small, rich, and ''dissappearing'' community. Many fansites have existed over the past 30 years since the games initial publishing, and have since gone dark. What sites are still around are rare, incomplete, or saved via a web archiving service. This wiki was built on the idea of preserving what was for current and future generations of fans of great series. This site is generally English first, sites in other languages will be noted. For questions and comments, please reach out to [[User:Stonedreamer|Stonedreamer]]. | The Earthdawn Fandom is a small, rich, and ''ever-dissappearing'' community. Many fansites have existed over the past 30 years since the games initial publishing, and have since gone dark. What sites are still around are rare, incomplete, or saved via a web archiving service. This wiki was built on the idea of preserving what was for current and future generations of fans of great series. This site is generally English first, sites in other languages will be noted. For questions and comments, please reach out to [[User:Stonedreamer|Stonedreamer]]. | ||
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Revision as of 18:29, 21 April 2025
The Earthdawn Fandom is a small, rich, and ever-dissappearing community. Many fansites have existed over the past 30 years since the games initial publishing, and have since gone dark. What sites are still around are rare, incomplete, or saved via a web archiving service. This wiki was built on the idea of preserving what was for current and future generations of fans of great series. This site is generally English first, sites in other languages will be noted. For questions and comments, please reach out to Stonedreamer.
Wikis
The advent of wikis have really defined the current generation of the fandom, with several in existance.
Official
- The Official Earthdawn Wiki: Published and operated by FASA Games Inc.
Unofficial
- The Earthdawn Wiki at Fandom.com: A community supported wiki.
Non-English Wikis
- Earthdawn-wiki.de: A fansite maintained by the EDW eV
Fan-Sites, Blogs, Legacy Sites & Other Assorted Arcana
A number of people have written up fan content, reviews, writeups and analysis of Earthdawn, across its various editions. Like the internet it grew up alongside of, these Earthdawn fan presences on the web are diverse and are difficult to categorize, but here we are.
Fan-Sites/Blogs
- Panda Grove Gaming: Earthdawn: A fantastic blog covering game mechanics with a really great systems level analysis. (External Link).
- Non-English Sites
- FondationDraco.fr: A french language blog with a large volume of posts covering Earthdawn and Shadowrun. (External Link).
- Legacy Blogs
- Mordom's Earthdawn Blog on Blogspot: An older fanblog, not updated since 2017. (External Link).
Communities
- The Earthdawn Subreddit. (External Link)
- The Earthdawn Discord. (External Link)
Podcasts
- Earthdawn Survival Guide: A podcast updated as of 2025. (External Link).
Legacy Sites & Pages
- Dwarf47's Earthdawn Writeup, reposted from SomethingAwful by Mimir. (External Link).
Assorted Arcana
- Greg's Earthdawn Webpage on Angelfire: This is one of my favorites of "classic" sites. (External Link).
- Shadowrun/Earthdawn Prehistory on the Emergence Campaign Blog: A really great fan timeline connecting the Shadowdawn metaplot. One of my personal favorites. (External Link)
- Dan Volodar's Ancient Files: If anything is a legacy site for the Shadowdawn metaplot it is this one.
- Dan Volodar's Russian Domain: This site seems to be the current working master, but may be inaccessible to US based users. (External Site).
- Ancient Files on the Wayback Machine: This site hosts a version of the Ancient Files recovered from the original Dumpshock forums, though without its formatting. (External Site).
