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was able to make a bid, so Fantasy Productions founder Werner Fuchs invited Boyle to visit him in Germany, and Boyle soon set up and ran the new corporation FanPro LLC, created by two Fantasy Productions principals and Boyle. Fantasy Productions created FanPro LLC as a subsidiary in the USA to hold
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and soon all the others; Fantasy Productions needed support from the gaming stock that FanPro LLC warehoused, so while FanPro LLC needed support from Fantasy Productions they were instead supporting Fantasy Productions. Boyle and Bills attempted to purchase FanPro LLC from Fantasy Productions but
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FanPro maintained a small staff so they used the fulfilment company Fast Forward Entertainment for warehousing and shipping but when that company went under, they took the profits that they had not yet paid FanPro for their books. Fantasy Productions in Germany began divesting themselves of game
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when that failed they threatened to leave bid for the WizKids licenses when they came up for renewal; WizKids came to mediate and while they would not allow Boyle and Bills to start a new company, they did grant the licenses to
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Line Editor; Bills became the second and only other employee of FanPro LLC. FanPro LLC also began producing English translations of German role-playing games beginning with
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From 2001 to 2005, FanPro LLC released over a dozen original Shadowrun titles and reprinted core titles that FASA had originally released. In 2005, FanPro LLC released
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series ceased publications in 2008, following disagreements between WizKids and Fantasy Productions concerning the German license for those properties.
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licensed some of the FASA game rights to the Fantasy Productions principals. Fantasy Productions expressed interest in obtaining a license for
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was centered on a metaplot like the FASA game lines, which was advanced in both adventures and the magazine
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did not sell well in the US, so FanPro LLC did not further supported the game and did not publish
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as intended in late 2006 as another translation of a second German RPG.
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properties in April 2007 due to their own difficulties, first selling
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in early 2001 with Boyle as Line Editor, and FanPro also licensed
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products into German, and when FASA closed in 2001,
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Fantasy Productions Medienvertriebsgesellschaft GmbH
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