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Eric J. Gibson
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Nationality	American
Occupation	Game designer

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

Career

Eric J. Gibson through his company Purgatory Publishing purchased West End Games, and the deal was announced by previous owner Humanoids Publishing on November 14, 2003.^[1]^: 195 Gibson becoming the new owner of West End involved the Masterbook, D6 System and its derivative D6 Legend systems, as well as the Bloodshadows, Shatterzone and Torg settings, as well as the West End trademark.^[1]^: 195 As part of his contribution to West End, Gibson made the d6 classic system into a more generic rules system.^[1]^: 195 Gibson intended to publish a new edition of Torg, but only produced two Torg PDFs.^[1]^{: 195–196}

West End began having difficulty financing their publications, so Gibson offered to Bill Coffin to publish his Septimus role-playing game, but even after taking preorders Gibson did not have enough money to print the book, and announced in 2008 that Septimus was cancelled and he was dissolving West End Games.^[1]^: 196 Gibson ultimately released Bill Coffin's Septimus (2009) in PDF, which would be the last product from West End Games.^[1]^: 196 Gibson released his core genre books using the OGL, making the D6 system available for use to other publishers.^[1]^: 196 Gibson sold the remaining properties for West End, selling Torg to German company Ulisses Spiele, and the Masterbook system with the Bloodshadows and Shatterzone settings to Precis Intermedia.^[1]^: 196

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

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
^ "Nocturnal Media Acquires West End Games" (Press Release). Nocturnal Media. 2016-05-13. Archived from the original on 2020-08-30. Retrieved 2020-09-15.

External links

"Eric Gibson :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on 19 May 2007.

[designers-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. Archived from the original on 2020-08-30. Retrieved 2020-09-15.

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 ==Career==
-Eric J. Gibson's [[Purgatory Publishing]] became the new owner of the [[West End Games]], and the deal was announced by previous owner [[Humanoids Publishing]] on November 14, 2003.<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702- 58-7}}</ref>{{rp|195}} Gibson's purchase of West End involved the ''[[Masterbook]]'', [[D6 System|d6 classic]] and d6 legend rules systems, plus the ''[[Bloodshadows]]'', ''[[Shatterzone]]'' and ''[[Torg]]'' settings,  and the West End trademark itself.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|195}} Gibson's contribution to West End included turning d6 classic into a more generic system.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|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.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|195–196}}
+Eric J. Gibson through his company [[Purgatory Publishing]] purchased [[West End Games]], and the deal was announced by previous owner [[Humanoids Publishing]] on November 14, 2003.<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}</ref>{{rp|195}} Gibson becoming the new owner of West End involved the ''[[Masterbook]]'', [[D6 System]] and its derivative [[D6 System#Variant resolution systems|D6 Legend]] systems, as well as the ''[[Bloodshadows]]'', ''[[Shatterzone]]'' and ''[[Torg]]'' settings, as well as the West End trademark.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|195}} As part of his contribution to West End, Gibson made the d6 classic system into a more generic rules system.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|195}} Gibson intended to publish a new edition of ''Torg'', but only produced two ''Torg'' PDFs.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|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.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|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.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|196}} Gibson released his core genre books under the OGL, so that the D6 system could be used by other publishers.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|196}} Gibson sold off West End's remaining properties: ''Torg'' went to German publisher [[Ulisses Spiele]], and the ''Masterbook'' system and the ''Bloodshadows'' and ''Shatterzone'' settings both went to small US publisher [[Precis Intermedia]].<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|196}}
+West End began having difficulty financing their publications, so Gibson offered to [[Bill Coffin]] to publish his ''Septimus'' role-playing game, but even after taking preorders Gibson did not have enough money to print the book, and announced in 2008 that ''Septimus'' was cancelled and he was dissolving West End Games.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|196}} Gibson ultimately released ''Bill Coffin's Septimus'' (2009) in PDF, which would be the last product from West End Games.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|196}} Gibson released his core genre books using the [[Open Game License|OGL]], making the D6 system available for use to other publishers.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|196}} Gibson sold the remaining properties for West End, selling ''Torg'' to German company [[Ulisses Spiele]], and the ''Masterbook'' system with the ''Bloodshadows'' and ''Shatterzone'' settings to [[Precis Intermedia]].<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|196}}
+In April 2016, he sold the rest of West End Games and the D6 System to [[Stewart Wieck|Nocturnal Media]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nocturnal-media.com/blog/2016/4/13/nocturnal-media-acquires-west-end-games |title=Nocturnal Media Acquires West End Games |publisher=Nocturnal Media |type=Press Release |date=2016-05-13 |accessdate=2020-09-15 |archive-date=2020-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200830222912/https://www.nocturnal-media.com/blog/2016/4/13/nocturnal-media-acquires-west-end-games |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 ==References==
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+{{Reflist}}
 ==External links==
 * {{cite web|url=http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=10944 |title=Eric Gibson :: Pen & Paper RPG Database|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519224855/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=10944|archivedate=19 May 2007}}
+{{Authority control}}
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