| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Source Vs. Rule |
| Date: | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:23:56 +0100 |
> 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.
On the list, we've been having the occasional thread about this for at
least three or four years, and at GenCon '99 Mike Mulvihill was talking
about releasing the OOP adventures (updated to SR3) on the FASA web site.
Not much seems to have come from it, though, probably because of the tight
release schedule they're working under (IIRC, they're working on three
different books at a time these days). This sounds like I'm a
FASA-apologist, I know :)
FWIW, even though I myself have own a near-complete collection of SR books
(everything except the FASA version of Into The Shadows and Matrix), I'd
like to see them go through with this. I have sort of given up hope on it,
though :(
> 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).
>
> Anyone know the odds of getting FASA's approval for this?
For doing it ourselves? Slim to non-existant, I would guess. In the
past, various listmembers have offered to help FASA with things like their
web site, and their offers have always been declined.
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