Resources

Utilities

Here are a few tools useful for Earthdawn.

The Second Step, a very good 2nd edition character generator. This is what I use for the character sheets in the Characters section of this site.
Official 2nd ed. character sheet from Living Room Games.
Character Folio – a character record and reference created by Carsten Damm.

The Willow font, used in various Earthdawn publications and for the headings on this site.

The Chelsea Studio font, a somewhat similar font obtained from Absolute Font Archive.

Creatures of the Serpent River and Servos Jungle – Zipped files to add creatures from The Serpent River to the Creature Creator data files that come with brain millipede, eddypad, giant spider, Henghyoke otter, inshalata, jub jub, k'sathra, mangrove eel, river steed, sand lobster, shilagrue, shilagrue Horror, velos, and water strider.
Talents – Zipped files to add to the data files for The Second Step character generator. Contains new talents from The Way of War.
General Skills – Zipped files to add to the data files for The Second Step character generator. Contains new general skills from The Way of War and Denizens of Earthdawn, Vol. I.
General Equipment – Zipped files to add to the data files for The Second Step character generator. Contains Windling equipment from Denizens of Earthdawn, Vol. I, and the now frequently-encountered used Death Cheat amulet...

Some movies, books and music to get in the mood for magic and mayhem.

Logar's Diary, a German fantasy power metal band for Earthdawn – how cool is that?
Dead Can Dance have several albums that are good atmosphere music for Barsaive.

The Earthdawn novels: "Longing Ring", "Mother Speaks", and "Poisoned Memories" by Chris Kubasik; "Prophecy" by Greg Gorden; "Talisman" by Sam Lewis (ed.); "Shroud of Madness", by Carl Sargent and Marc Gascoigne; "Lost Kaer", by Nigel Findley.
The Lost Earthdawn novels: "Scars", by Caroline Spector, and "Liferock", by Jak Koke.
Glen Cook's Black Company series.
Barbara Hambly's fantasy novels, for example the Darwath Trilogy and the Sun Wolf and Star Hawk series.
J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Duh.

Ladyhawke (1985): Richard Donner, with Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Rutger Hauer.
Legend (1985): Ridley Scott, with Tim Curry and Tom Cruise.
The 13th Warrior (1999): John McTiernan, with Antonio Banderas.
The Dark Crystal (1982): Jim Henson and Frank Oz.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003): Peter Jackson, with a bunch of now famous people. Duh.
Xena, Warrior Princess (1995-2001): With Lucy Lawless and Renée O'Connnor.
Willow (1988): Ron Howard, with Val Kilmer.