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Message no. 1
From: Adam J adamj@*********.com
Subject: SR books online (was Re: Source Vs. Rule)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:36:17 -0600
At 08:20 31/10/2000 -0700, JLantrip@******.COM wrote:

> 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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Message no. 2
From: Nexx nexx@********.net
Subject: SR books online (was Re: Source Vs. Rule)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:48:44 -0600
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam J" <adamj@*********.com>

> 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. :/

Just as a note, WotC is trying to release all the old TSR stuff on-line,
either free (which is great, because I've been able to pick up a lot of
stuff for my D&D game) or for a very small cost ($2.95 a supplement is the
current going rate, I think). I hear they've been getting good response.

Incidentally, if anyone wants to look for some old Shadowrun products, my
local stores carry a lot of older stuff... I know I've seen several copies
of Shadowbeat and other such stuff out on the shelves. I can give you a URL
for one of them, or go get a list of product for those interested.

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