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 Purgatory Publishing became the new owner of 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 its derivative D6 Legend rules systems, as well as the Bloodshadows, Shatterzone and Torg settings, and 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 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 Gibson did not have enough money to print the book, and announced in 2008 that he was cancelling Septimus and dissolving West End Games.[1]: 196  Gibson eventually released Bill Coffin's Septimus (2009) as a PDF, which would be the last product from West End Games.[1]: 196  Gibson released his core genre books under the OGL, making the D6 system available for use to other publishers.[1]: 196  Gibson sold off West End's remaining properties, selling Torg to German publisher Ulisses Spiele, and the Masterbook system and 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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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