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WEG and all it’s properties are for sale, and I’m taking bids. I’ve been talking with some of the more interested publishers already but I was recent bitched out (what else is new) for not offer WEG for sale to fans publicly.

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Eric Gibson
Publisher, West End Games/
Purgatory Publishing Inc.

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I posted a fundable project. I’m not really expecting it to go through, but it is up.

https://www.fundable.com/

Please note. This does not represent the “buy” price for D6. This is an attempt to secure funding for the project itself. If project is funded, I’ll be donating the D6 IP to the Open D6 Project. Open D6 is something I really believe if and I think it is a step the industry needs, especailly given the backwards steps the the GSL represents to the Open Gaming movement.

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OK guys, here’s the deal. I have a lot of freelancing on at the moment which means I’m going to have a fair amount of spare cash at the end of it. This gives me the opportunity to do ’stuff’ that I*might not otherwise do. I have various personal projects lined up for after the freelancing hump but I*want to make you an offer you can’t refuse…

Social Networking is important to me as I*like to engage with my audience - or potential audience and get feedback on what I’m doing. To date it has been hard to get that and I think the issue is somewhat down to audience size. It’s also an important part of my ‘process’ as a writer to get a lot of stimulation and ideas from what’s going on around me, in the news and on the net. Conversation works better than static information for that.

So, you get me contacts, followers, friends and other voyeurs to my creative process and I’ll get you a third edition of the free Neverwhere RPG, ahead of my other projects, for free. If I can get 100 followers across Twitter, Livejournal, Facebook and Myspace by the end of the month (June 30th 2008) that’ll be the next thing I work on. For every 50 followers over that I’ll commission some extra art to make this into a completely professional and lavish production as well as improving the rules and updating the information.

Seems like a good deal doesn’t it?

I’ll keep count on Twitter/Facebook and if you don’t make it this month, we’ll try again later on.

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This game was originally written during the summer of 1980. Back then, only “A New Hope” and “The Empire Strikes Back” had been released. “Return of the Jedi” was still in storyboards. Only a couple books had been written, and there was Marvel Comics’ Star Wars series trying to fill in some of the gaps between the movies. That was about it, as far as information on the Star Wars universe was concerned. When I decided to write a role-playing game based on the movies, there was a whole lot of stuff I had to guess at and as more movies and books were released, a lot of it turned out to be wrong. I’ve tried to incorporate as much of that as I could without disturbing the flow of the game. Some of my wrong guesses, such as the availability of Force training, the history of the Clone Wars and where Stormtroopers come from, I’ve left in because I think they result in a more rounded game. I’ve also kept the setting in a hypothetical era between the end of the clone wars and the destruction of the Jedi. A nascent rebellion is just beginning to make itself felt, but isn’t big enough yet to be a problem to the Empire. This way we can have Stormtroopers AND Jedi together. And the limitations of my clever little ‘Droid system have been blown completely out of the water.
I’ve ignored the specialized combat ‘Droids of the Clone Wars and concentrated on the general service ‘Droid hulls with which Adventurers will have most contact and use. I’ve expanded the Force powers a bit, and
there are always more Aliens to add. And until George Lucas Himself tells me otherwise (in person, of course), I’m going to insist that Yoda was from Dagobah.

My original intention was to produce a fully featured, functional and playable game that would fit in about 100 manuscript pages, resulting in a 40 page magazine-sized book that could sell for about $5-$6 US. I also hated having to use all those weird shaped dice that cost way too much money. I wanted my game system to use 6-sided dice exclusively. This was way before West End Games got the role-playing license and made their d6 only system.

After my game was pretty much done, I started hawking it to different game publishers, and tried getting permission to do so from Lucasfilm and Kenner (the holder of the game & toy rights at the time). Neither would talk to me until I got permission from the other. As I continued to push, I got a “friendly” little cease-and-desist order (Included at the end of the book) that scared the bejeebeez out of me. So I ceased
and desisted. Until now.

I hope you enjoy playing this game as much as I did in designing it.

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Congratulations!*We’ve reached the target and stand at 105 adds for the month with a week still to go!

This means that my next project, barring freelancing, will be Neverwhere 3rd Edition, before anything else. I’ll commission a little more art for it in the next week or two but if you can get me to 150 followers before the end of the month I’ll pump some more money in and get even more art. So, what you’re campaigning for now is an even shinier, even better Neverwhere 3rd edition than before!

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Neverwhere Third Edition released!
The third – and probably final – edition of the Neverwhere RPG, produced with permission and available for PDF only. This is the final, comprehensive edition of the game with an improved system, more detail an expanded A-Z and advice for running the game in tabletop, online or as a LARP.

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OpenD6 OGL Revisions

My plan, at this time, is to revise the OpenD6 OGL entries, to remove exemptions for use of the OpenD6 trademarks. This to eradicate the need for any type of system trademark license. When completed, there will no longer be any restriction from using the D6 system text copyrights, as well as the Open D6 trademark.

My desire to remain on active participant of the Open D6 Revolution (at the risk of sounding like hyperbole) is waned.

I’m sure that some will consider me a bad person for the harm some think I’ve caused to their beloved games, but I hope that, at worst, I’ll simply be considered a tremendous fan, who had greater aspirations than talent to put them into action.

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