Editing Fantasy Productions (section)

=== Licenses selling ===
Until early in 2007 FanPro was a [[publisher]] for fantasy books and various [[role playing game]]s. The company owned licensing agreements with [[WizKids]] to produce the German-language versions of [[Classic BattleTech]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Pirates of the Spanish Main]], and the "[[Clix (miniatures)|Clix]]" games of [[Mage Knight]] and [[HeroClix]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Start {{!}} Fanpro Verlag |url=https://www.fanpro.de/ |access-date=2022-11-16 |website=Fanpro |language=de}}</ref>

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.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|435}} Fantasy Productions in Germany began divesting themselves of game properties in April 2007 due to their own difficulties, first selling ''Das Schwarze Auge'' 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.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|435}} Boyle and Bills attempted to purchase FanPro LLC from Fantasy Productions but 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 [[InMediaRes]].<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|435}} The license for ''Das Schwarze Auge'' went to [[Ulisses Spiele]]. Since then the company focuses on publishing novels only, although it continued its preexisting novel series for ''Das Schwarze Auge'' ; the ''Shadowrun'' and ''BattleTech'' series ceased publications in 2008, following disagreements between WizKids and Fantasy Productions concerning the German license for those properties.