From: | Adam J adamj@*********.com |
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Subject: | SR books online (was Re: Source Vs. Rule) |
Date: | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:36:17 -0600 |
> I had asked this question to Shadowrun@****.com, but, well, they're
>pretty busy people. Has anyone ever talked to the FASA group about
>"digitizing" the old and OOP sourcebooks? Stuff that they aren't ever going
>to reprint. Warner Doles talked to Brian/Randall about it for the old House
>books for Battletech, and that seemed to fly pretty well. (Of course, with
>B-tech...they've gotta remove all the "Unseen" most likely...but no such
>problems in SR)
> I know that a lot of the material from the older books is getting
>updated in newer ones, but why let it all slide into "Out-of-Print Hell"?
>I'd hate to see all of those older (source)books disappear (even if the
>stats are in 1st/2d edition stuff...I can convert).
I'm pretty sure that the Battletech books being released online are kind of
the "test", so FASA can decide if they'll release more stuff online.
Also, I know Mike has said several times that he doesn't want to release
the books as-is, he wants to try and release versions with SR3 updated
stats and page references. Personally I don't think this is really
necessary, although it would be very nice in some cases - Adventures being
the most obvious.
It's obviously taking a back-burner to the attempt to ramp the production
schedule up to a book a month, though. :/
Adam
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