D20 Vaporware

[Desdichado]

I didn't see any mention of ERB's Barsoom d20, which was advertised in Dragon no less, and then didn't appear.

 

[Desdichado]

No one has mentioned Earth 1066 yet.
http://www.earth1066.com/

Actually, yes it was mentioned on the first page and again on the second (and now, again on the third. )

 

[JoeGKushner]

Was it ever promised, or just much desired? Can't really call it vaporware if it's just the latter.

I could be remembering things wrong, but I thought that Of Sound Mind 2 and 3 were both in the 'queue' at one point or another for Fiery Dragon?

 

[Razuur]

All of mine have been mentioned:

Dune D20 line
Earth 1066
Windhaven
Pulp Cthulhu
Glorianna

Razuur

 

[Arnwyn]

I could be remembering things wrong, but I thought that Of Sound Mind 2 and 3 were both in the 'queue' at one point or another for Fiery Dragon?

You are correct - I remember them both being "announced".

 

[Crothian]

Primer of Avadnu, I was really hoping to see it at Gen Con but that didn't happen and its still coming at some point. So, not a year late yet but approaching Vaporware styatus I imagine.

 

[Pbartender]

Adamant's Glorianna may or may not become vaporware, I for one really, really hope it does not. I like that period, and I like the fey, what more could I ask for?

My gaming group was slated to playtest it. The playtest was delayed by a month, and then cancelled indefinitely. Last I'd heard, one or more of the primary authors had ditched the project, and left poor G-M in the lurch.

It's a shame, we were really looking forward to the playtest.

 

[WayneLigon]

I can't think of a d20 vaporware right now. I'm still waiting for the nanotech RPG setting from the guys that did Megatraveller, and the other continents for Questworld.

Then again, I'm still waiting for 'Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League', History of the World Part 2, and Dr. Detroit 2: The Wrath of Mom. OK, I know the last two were jokes. I still want to see them

 

[Raloc]

I was looking forward to Master Tools. Dundjinni and E-Tools are nice, but not nearly the same.

 

[AegisEversoaring]

I fear that it never got written, I do know that I wasn't involved in any playtest of it. I believe that it was one of John Wheeler's projects. The company partially broke up when John Wheeler left Maine.

For a while the Companions were publishing Behind Enemy Lines, which they picked up after Wm. John Wheeler went to work for FASA. (He later went to work for TSR, and was responsible for editing Desert of Desolation when it was released in a single volume.)

Do you know where Mr. Wheeler is now? I have been wondering about him for years, and for once Google let me down.

I wonder about some of the other folks involved with the company now and again. Patrick Hill was in a coma following an automobile accident, eventually passing away. DeRoche, another playtester had cancer but has (last I heard) recovered. Patricia Hutchinson and Ray Estabrook got married. Ted Nutter graduated and left the state. The others I do not know about.

The Auld Grump

I worked with a guy named Chris Hewish, he said that he playtested some of the Companions stuff in Maine. He's doing quite well as a product producer for Activision, the electronic game company. I think Chris just got married a year or so ago.

Aegis