OK, so "official" status has been taken away from Paranioa Press.
I don't mind that -- it certainly wasn't the highest quality material.
What angers me is that GDW should have said this publicly *years* ago,
rather than leading us all on to beleive that these books still had
approval. As far as I can recall, neither GDW nor DGP has ever
published anything that actively contradicted PP. So what were we
supposed to think?
Incidentally -- if PP has gone, what about all the Far Frontiers
adventures published by FASA? Many of these were written by the
Highly-Revered-Brothers-Keith, so Miller and Fugate may well want to
retain them as official. Unfortunately, they are closely linked with
the PP books. Look in _Trail_of_the_Sky_Raiders_ and see how the
Trelyn Domain straddles Coos Subsector in the Vanguard Reaches and
Jungleblut Subsector in the Far Frontiers. Has there suddenly been
a mass exodus of Trelyn citizens into the Frontiers as the Reaches
disappear in a puff of dogma? WHAT IS GOING ON SPINWARD OF THE
IMPERIUM?
I agree wholeheartedly with George William Herbert when he calls for
a clear statement of official policy from GDW as to what old material
is still valid and what has been thrown away, otherwise players
everywhere will continue struggling to rationalize all the numerous
inconsistencies that keep cropping up. What makes matters worse is
that GDW seems to have become excruciatingly bad at checking its latest
works before publication.
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