>>422902
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/dark-earth-french-rpg-collateral-victim-of-the-market.27028/
There's some sad news in France today, for the RPG scene.
>We had a very good post-apocalytic RPG called Dark Earth.
The game used to have two editions, the first one being co-produced by Multisim (tabletop RPG publisher) and Kallisto (CRPG publisher), because a computer game was issued at the same time as the RPG, with the same background (and some people belonged to both companies, like Frederic Weil, former Multisim president).
>Kallisto, like lots of high-tech company, used to be a very successful company in the 1998-1999 period (the president of Kallisto, Nicolas Gaume, was everywhere in the media, and was regularilly invited by officials, including French president François Miterrand), but had major commercial setbacks in 2000 (plus, they somewhat forged their acounting, ouch).
>Since then, Kallisto has been agonizing, and Multisim completely severed the links between the two companies (and they recently stopped the Dark Earth line, seeing bad news coming).
Last week, an announcement was made (but not on the Multisim official site ...) : all intellectual properties of Kallisto are forbidden to be sold, and this includes both Dark Earth rulebooks (but not the supplements, for some mysterious reason).
>I don't know how this is going to be enforced, but it really sucks. I think I'll rush to my FLGS, as soon as possible, to grab the last copy before it is trashed ...
>It's a good thing that no CRPG was made about Nephilim, Agone and others ...
It's history as of circa 2002. There was never an English translation and its production was seized by the French Government from the author, which has most likely been sold off in some bulk intellectual property rights deal to god knows who. The only way you'll find anything on it is if you can purchase it from a French collector and anyone that owns the game will be loath to part with it.