Hellgate
If you are into computer and video games you might remember the action RPG Hellgate: London. It has been released 2007 by Flagship Studios. Alas the game was much too ambitious and the...
November 15, 2010
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40 Years a Gamer – A Life in 100 Games
Games I was sad to see go away…
I guess we’ve all had them. The system you love; the one you can’t wait for the next supplement to come out for. And then all of a sudden, BOOM, cancelled! Thankfully in...
October 8, 2010
Interview with the AntiPaladins: Mini Six Bare Bones Edition
Ray Nolan and Phil Morris of AntiPaladin Games recently released a drastically revised and expanded version of their Open d6-based microlite, Mini Six. This new "Bare Bones Edition" comes in a beautiful, easy-to-use...
August 18, 2010
Freebie: Bill Coffin’s Septimus
The only game ever released by WEG under the Open D6 brand was Bill Coffin’s Septimus. Now that Bill got the full rights to this game back by Eric Gibson, WEG’s owner, he...
May 22, 2010
Interview: Bill Coffin
Recently there was much talk about West End Games on this side of the internet and one name that cropped up regularly was Bill Coffin. Bill Coffin is a RPG industry veteran and...
May 13, 2010
WEG: This is the end
I never thought this would happen, but it seems Eric Gibson, owner of West End Games, will be selling TORG (and probably other properties of West End Games as well). According to an...
April 20, 2010
Microlite Interview with AntiPaladin Games
This interview originally appeared on Polyhedral Dreams on January 27th, 2010. There have been a couple small edits.
March 10, 2010
Communication is the key
I usually don’t rant on my blog and I although don’t post my thought on the industry that often either, but there’s something that got my blood boiling. Perhaps you remember the Open...
January 12, 2010
Open D6 Resurrection Wiki
The official Open D6 project may be dead (or at least of uncertain status), but there are still enough dedicated fans willing to resurrect the idea. One of those fans recently created a...
January 5, 2010
Freebie: Mini Six
In the last months I have posted several times about West End Games’ D6 System and the OpenD6 project. A few months ago, Eric Gibson, owner of WEG released the cinematic RPG from...
December 8, 2009
Six-Sided Fantasy SRD released
While WEG’s Eric Gibson hasn’t shown up on the WEG Fan Forums for ages and things are generally looking grim for the future of the OpenD6 project, a fellow RPG blogger has provided...
November 13, 2009
Is there still hope for Open D6?
A long time ago Eric Gibson, current owner of West End Games, announced that he plans to turn the D6 System into an open system. I believe he made that statement in his...
October 1, 2009
OpenD6 beta coming soon
It seems the beta test of the OpenD6 website is just a few days to weeks away. As the developer of the software that will power the OpenD6 site wrote on the WEG...
August 20, 2009
OpenD6 logo revealed
Recently the web developer who is working for Eric Gibson to create the OpenD6 website revealed not only the OpenD6 logo but also posted an early screenshot of the OpenD6 website. The logo...
June 16, 2009
Bill Coffin’s Septimus will be WEG’s first big release under the OpenD6 banner!
West End Games and Bill Coffin’s Septimus are not dead after all! Recently Eric Gibson, current owner of West End Games, announced that the secret project, he’s been working on for quite some...
May 19, 2009
Ad Astra: PDQ vs. D6 1:0
Yesterday my gaming group assembled to play our first session of “Ad Astra”. Alas I wasn’t able to finish everything I wanted to have written down at that point, but we decided it...
May 10, 2009
Open D6 update!
Over at the WEG Fan Forums Eric Gibson, the owner of West End Games, has posted an update on OpenD6. For your convenience, I want to quote his post here: OpenD6 OGL Moving...
April 9, 2009
Theseus Class Medium Starfighter
As I mentioned before I am working on a SF campaign setting for d6 Space. One of the things my players requested were space battles featuring space fighters much like in games like...
March 31, 2009
Some news on Open D6
On the 25th the WEG Fan Forums organized a chat with West End Games owner Eric Gibson. Now the chat transcript is finally available, and I can give you some information on what...
March 27, 2009