#7, RE: HBS Shadowrun
Posted by Matrix Dragon on Jan-16-21 at 07:48 AM
In response to message #0
>That said, one of the potential endings of Dragonfall--the worst one--is a >backdoor setup for a different ex-FASA game, which is pretty funny. The A- >plot antagonist in Dragonfall has figured out a way to make dragons extinct, >and if you flip at the ending and help him do it, you get a "some time later" >epilogue where it turns out the dragons, problematic as they were, were >actually holding back something worse, which, in their absence, has now >overrun the world and forced the few remaining survivors of humanity >underground. These things are so powerful, so malevolent, so vile, and so >utterly incomprehensible to the human mind that the survivors just call them >"horrors".>Yep. The Bad End of Dragonfall is the setup for Earthdawn. Nice touch, HBS. >Well bowled. I did some looking around, and apparently Earthdawn was already a prequel to Shadowrun, taking place the last time magic overwhelmed Earth in the time of Atlantis. It's just that the Bad End of Dragonfall means you've condemned Earth to it a SECOND time. Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter
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