Eric J. Gibson

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Eric J. Gibson
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

Eric J. Gibson is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career[]

Eric J. Gibson's became the new owner of the West End Games, and the deal was announced by previous owner Humanoids Publishing on November 14, 2003.[1]: 195  Gibson's purchase of West End involved the Masterbook, D6 System and derivative D6 Legend rules systems, plus the Bloodshadows, Shatterzone and Torg settings, and the West End trademark itself.[1]: 195  Gibson's contribution to West End included turning d6 classic into a more generic system.[1]: 195  Gibson intended to publish Torg in a new edition and revitalize the line, but he ended up producing only two PDFs for the Torg line.[1]: 195–196 

When West End was having difficulty financing their publications, Gibson turned to Bill Coffin to publish his Septimus role-playing game, but even with preorders was unable to raise the money to print the book; in 2008, Gibson announced that he was cancelling Septimus, that he could not refund preorders, that he could not afford to ship books to people who wanted to take product instead of a refund, that none of his D6 lines had ever made money, that he had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that he was would be dissolving West End Games.[1]: 196  Gibson claimed that he had decided not to sell off his properties, and did end up refunding Septimus preorders a year later - he also eventually released Bill Coffin's Septimus (2009) as a PDF, West End Games' last product.[1]: 196  Gibson released his core genre books under the OGL, so that the D6 system could be used by other publishers.[1]: 196  Gibson sold off West End's remaining properties: Torg went to German publisher , and the Masterbook system and the Bloodshadows and Shatterzone settings both went to small US publisher Precis Intermedia.[1]: 196 

In April 2016, he sold the rest of West End Games and the D6 System to Nocturnal Media.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. ^ "Nocturnal Media Acquires West End Games" (Press Release). Nocturnal Media. 2016-05-13. Retrieved 2020-09-15.

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