From:	Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: [ot] Fasa is not fasa.
Date:	Mon, 22 Dec 1997 16:14:36 -0800

Steven Heleski [Donley Computer Center] wrote:

> Ok, This is off the topic of the trading card game but I have to
> ask. I attend a Xmas Party this weekend and I was talking about the
> card game and someone told me that FASA is really own by Wizards of the
> Coast. I told them I could not believe this because FASA is privatly
> held and nothing of the three people who own FASA wanted to sell. He
> then told me he heard from a Wizard of a Coast person at Gencon that
> FASA did sell out to WIzards and An anouncement was made on it.

FASA is a privately-held company. I don't know the actual owners, but
it is *not* held by WotC. On the other hand, Wizards holds the license
for the Battletech CCG, so there is that connection, yes.

If there was an announcement, you'd've heard something Very Loud about
it. Remember when they bought TSR? Heck, remember when they snarfed
L5R? (Of course, L5R was initiates with the intention of one day being
sold to WotC, so....)


-Mb