| From: | "Darrin M. Conant" <dconant@****.spectra.net> |
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| Subject: | Re: What's new? |
| Date: | Sun, 14 Apr 1996 21:30:11 -0400 |
>We would be in a pretty good position to, for instance, take part in
>defining the "world according to ShadowRun" -- Neo-Anarchists Guide to
>the World. Then again, FASA must have some definite views on this, but
>they just haven't collected them all together and given them to the players.
I think that you're giving them too much credit. With as many people
contributing to the game world as there are it isn't likely that this
knowledge is in one place. The writers have to have some freedom.
I think that the Neo-Anarchists Guide to the World is going to be a tricky
thing to deal with from FASA's point of view. Think about it from their
angle. To copy information from "our" product would require that they give
credit (and maybe payment) -or- prove that the information was public domain
(such as history) -or- prove that they had the idea before we did. This
means that they may be forced to avoid expanding upon places that we cover
or they will be forced to actively contradict the NERPS manual to prove they
didn't steal anything.
If we want to do anything, I'd suggest that we expand upon some of the areas
that FASA has already given guidelines for, or things that are already NERPS
(such as an area with some Zombie or minotaur influences). The other option
might be to contact FASA and see if we can work something out
(un)officially. Otherwise, we risk limiting FASA's abilities to expand.
My 2 cents
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