>From: Alan Huscroft [email removed]
>Subject: (1407) WARNING: Incoming Grouchy Diatribe...
>OK, so "official" status has been taken away from Paranioa Press...
>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...
As far as I know (and I remind you I'm just another
ignorant fan) everything the HRBK has ever thought
or breathed is official -- at least these are the
vibes I have gotten from Miller and Fugate at
various gaming conventions. I would expect (and
this again not "official" :-] but only my guess)
that anything that DGP does in the future would
match what the Keiths did. If they don't, we can
all flame them.
>What makes matters worse is
>that GDW seems to have become excruciatingly bad at checking its latest
>works before publication.
I just found out the other day (but didn't realize
it was important enough to post) that GDW has hired
Gary Thomas of DGP as their "MegaTraveller
Consultant" for Challenge. He told me that GDW has
two goals in mind: first, to make sure the stuff
matches, and second to make sure that the stuff is
interesting. He told me (I'm not sure I'm supposed
to repeat this, either) that Challenge has missed
both of those targets pretty badly in the past, and
GDW wants to fix it.
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Hope this is useful,
Bayliss
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