Barsaive Campaign Set

Barsaive Campaign Set is a supplement published by FASA in 1993 for the fantasy role-playing game Earthdawn.

Barsaive Campaign Set, the first major supplement for Earthdawn,[1] was designed by Christopher Kubasik, with contributions from Rob Cruz, Tom Dowd, Sam Lewis, Mike Mulvihill, Diane Piron-Gelman and Louis Prosperi.

It comes as a boxed set that includes[2] Content about the land of Barsaive includes geography; its people, societies and social norms; laws; secret societies; notable personalities; and politics.

[1] In the May 1994 edition of Dragon (Issue #205), Rick Swan admitted that he hadn't been enamored of Earthdawn when he first reviewed it three issues previously, calling it "a warmed-over version of the AD&D game."

But Swan found that the Barsaive supplement successfully moved "the Earthdawn game away from light fantasy and toward [a] sophisticated setting-based approach."