Editing FASA (section)

==Shadowrun and Earthdawn==
Inspired by the success of their wargame and [[TSR Games|TSR's]] apparent success with Dungeons and Dragons, FASA decided to have a go at the RPG scene again. FASA developed and released [[Shadowrun]]. The game met with critical success, blending the high fantasy of traditional D&D with the dystopian near future feel of [[Cyberpunk 2020]]. It also boasted 'simple' (read: less convoluted than the average RPG at the time) game mechanics, being played only with standard six-sided [[dice]]. Shadowrun put FASA right up with the big boys of the RPG industry. Shadowrun decided to try out straight high fantasy soon afterwards, to try to grab those fans who may have been adverse to playing in a technology saturated world, and developed and released Earthdawn. Earthdawn was linked to the Shadowrun universe and had a great deal of background in the material. The mechanics were drastically different from Shadowrun though, losing the simplicity and the draw that it generated for FASA's earlier RPGs.