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Message no. 1
From: "Paolo Falco, Explorer" <Falco@****.IT>
Subject: FASA policies.
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:07:38 +0100
KAOS, the house organ of the italian NEXUS editorial group, licenser
for FASA, has recently published an adventure set in "New Genua"
which contradicts brutally the GEMITO article of the "Italian
federation".

Therefore, I would like to know what is the position of NERPS towards
FASA's officially licensed stuff, and whether it ever happened that
FASA has contradicted NERPS.

In fact, I seem to recall that while NERPS tends to focus on
unpublished subjects, FASA has more or less acknowledged NERPS as a
canon source of information. Am I wrong?

Please answer, this is a touchy subject since we might find ourselves
with a NAGTTRW that has nothing to do with an officially-licensed
"Italian sourcebook", in a future not so far away!!!!

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Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: FASA policies.
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:07:31 +0100
Paolo Falco, Explorer said on 18:07/21 Jul 97...

> Therefore, I would like to know what is the position of NERPS towards
> FASA's officially licensed stuff, and whether it ever happened that
> FASA has contradicted NERPS.

Sure, but since NERPS hasn't really done any town/country descriptions the
times it has happened, it didn't have all that much of an impact.

> In fact, I seem to recall that while NERPS tends to focus on
> unpublished subjects, FASA has more or less acknowledged NERPS as a
> canon source of information. Am I wrong?

You are wrong. FASA is aware the NERPS list is around, but they don't (to
the best of my knowledge) consider us any more official than anyone else
putting stuff on the net.

> Please answer, this is a touchy subject since we might find ourselves
> with a NAGTTRW that has nothing to do with an officially-licensed
> "Italian sourcebook", in a future not so far away!!!!

Something to keep in mind is that "FASA-licensed" is not the same as
"FASA-published." The Germany sourcebook is apparently a good example of
this, in that the German (original) and English (FASA) editions differ on
some points, AFAIK. There's a bit of German text in the front of the
English edition saying that the German book is the official one in
Germany, so if FASA would publish an English version of an Italian
sourcebook, that's what might very well happen there too. Of course, the
changes aren't world-shocking, so on the whole it doesn't really make all
that much of a difference.

I guess the questions are: when will the "official" Italian SB be
published, and when do we expect the NAGTTW to be finished?

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Message no. 3
From: "Darrell L. Bowman" <bowmandl@*****.DHR.STATE.NC.US>
Subject: Re: FASA policies.
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:08:28 +0000
On 22 Jul 97 at 12:07, Gurth wrote:

> Something to keep in mind is that "FASA-licensed" is not the same as
> "FASA-published." The Germany sourcebook is apparently a good example of
> this, in that the German (original) and English (FASA) editions differ on
> some points, AFAIK. There's a bit of German text in the front of the
> English edition saying that the German book is the official one in
> Germany, so if FASA would publish an English version of an Italian
> sourcebook, that's what might very well happen there too. Of course, the
> changes aren't world-shocking, so on the whole it doesn't really make all
> that much of a difference.

This brings up a question, and I no this isn't really the place, but since
the Germany Sourcebook was mentioned,....

I've got a friend that would like to lay his hands on the original Germany
Sourcebook in German. Anybody know where one might find one?

You may reply to my email if you don't want to post it in the list.
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