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Flying Pen Press announces Of Dice and Pen anthology
July 28, 2008 | Comments Off
Flying Pen Press announces an anthology of short stories by professional game industry people, titled: Of Dice and Pen. The anthology is due out August 1st and will be sold at GenCon, at the ICE booth.
Buy it now at B&N
Authors include:
Gary Gygax and K.R.Bourgoine, A Wizard’s Thief (Gary’s last Gord story)
Rick Loomis, Xavier’s Story
Andrew Looney, Message in a Bottle, Delusions of Hunger, and The Emperor Must Die
Matt Forbeck, Prometheus Unwound
Elizabeth T. Danforth, Imp Possible Situations
Chris Clark, A Christmas Story, Bad Day At The Office, Beauracracy, and Sweet Silence of Solitude
Lisa Steenson, Space 28
Curt Covert, PSY_JACK
Catherine G. Thomson, The Book Sorter
Graeme Thomson, Under the Tuscan Snow
Jason S. Walters, Lefty Sanchez Reporting
Andy Vetromile, Fear of Success
Carey Grayson, The Vegetarian
David Wainio, A Homecoming, and Legend of Santa Claus
James L. Cambias, Murder in Messidor
Tim Pelzel, The Sweetness of Suffering
Thomas Rafalski, A Taint Upon the Kingdom
Lee Kamberos, The Dark Side Of Choice
Patrick Matthews, The Queen’s Gambit
ISBN 978-0-9818957-2-7, trade paperback, $17.95.
Will be available to the trade through Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and
Diamond.
Jul
25
West End Games
July 25, 2008 | Comments Off
I suppose that most everyone into role playing now knows that Eric Gibson, owner/operator of West End Games has declared that he is getting out of the business and that WEG and its string of IPs is going on the auction block. This statement was made after a lengthy argument between himself and long-time heckler Dana Jorgensen over at the RPGnet forums. Mr. Gibson posted his intentions at RPGnet and asked to be permanently banned as a result of all the negative remarks hurled at him by Jorgensen and others in a thread where several upset, former customers of WEG made justifiable complaints about not receiving a refund or alternate product after the failed launch of Bill Coffin’s Septimus RPG under WEG’s D6 system. Mr. Gibson followed up with similar posts at his own forums and declared that he would be accepting bids on the various properties in a piecemeal type auction. Shortly after making the statements, he issued another post declaring that he would be out of town for at least a week and that any offers made would have to wait for a response until he returned.
Now the question is whether Mr. Gibson is really going to give up his company or sell off a couple of his least favorite IPs in order to gain some money with which to pay off those consumers that invested in the pre-order of the Septimus RPG and then try to revive WEG on his own. From statements made in the heat of the moment, it appears he is determined to drop WEG like a hand grenade and run for his life. Perhaps a week off to cool down a bit will change his mind. If not, there are several interested parties already lined up to make their offers to Mr. Gibson for various chunks of the properties he controls.
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