dmccoy1693
Adventurer
If I had the money, I would love to buy WEG. I could do so much with that d6 system.
West End Games for Sale
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prosfilaes
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Is D6 really worth anything right now? D20, Fudge, GURPS, and Hero pretty much have the market covered for generic systems, and it seems like every other publisher has their own in-house generic system that they'd probably license to you for a song.
TORG would be nice, but either a lot of work would have to go into setting it in the 21st century (Zelda 5? 64-bit computers? Wow, Japan is advanced!) or trying to sell it based on the 1990s. I'm afraid that the used book market probably fills the demand for TORG, but I may be wrong there.
TORG would be nice, but either a lot of work would have to go into setting it in the 21st century (Zelda 5? 64-bit computers? Wow, Japan is advanced!) or trying to sell it based on the 1990s. I'm afraid that the used book market probably fills the demand for TORG, but I may be wrong there.
Wow, what a ridiculous and petty group of people. Honestly, I don't understand the motivation for putting this as a news story on Enworld, Wizards, Wikipedia, etc. These bitter, harmful people deserve their company to go under without any compensation. If anyone pays them a dime for their slipshod company, I will be severely disappointed.
Plane Sailing
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Whether they deserve anything or not, it is news. That is why it appears as a news story on ENworld!
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Right there with you.
I wonder... would it be possible for a colaboration of fans from here to put together a large enough pile to make a bid? Then the company could be run with appointed corporate officers, freelancers and other writers who are awesomely common on EnWorld, with everyone who put up cash for the bid as "shareholders". Maybe it could even be done through ENWorld itself as a part of ENWorld publishing...
And now I realize that I'm talking about some rather ridiculous cooperation from a bunch of people that have never met, and that the whole idea is less than sane to realistically consider. Still, if any online community could pull it off, I'd bet it would be ENWorld.
jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
Efforts are underway at both RPGnet and theRPGsite to collect funds for just such a 'fan' bid (though whether such collectives would be bidding for individual properties or the whole company does not seem to have been decided at either forum).
Levi Kornelson (sp?) has suggested that Eric Gibson make D6 available via Fundable and, if the asking price is met, that he release it to the public domain. I like that idea a lot. This way Eric gets paid, fans get access to D6, and the system is 100% open (not controlled by any kind of license).
jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
WEG was a huge player in the RPG market during the 1980s and early 1990s. They were the former producers of the best selling Star Wars RPG, and had produced such award-winning games as Ghostbusters and Paranoia in the past. That they are up for sale is pretty big news. They still own a few properties that may be worth buying, to boot.
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d6 is still a nice, simple system. If I'm throwing together a simple game, I find it easier to use than any class-based system, a LOT more lightweight than either GURPS or HERO, and easier to explain than Fudge. It's definitely got a niche - though I never thought enough of Nu-West End's version of it to replace my classic-West End copy of the generic d6 rulebook.
I love Torg. It was the first non-D&D campaign I ever ran, and it was until recently the longest campaign I ever ran. However - running it recently reminded me of how much a product of the early 90s it was. Compared to modern games, the game moves kind of slow, especially if you have one or two people at the table who never played the "old games" and aren't all that interested in them.
I'd love to see an "open game" version of the Torg rules released, if only to see what folks would do with it these days. But as much as I love the game and the setting, I'm not sure that it would work these days without a major rules revamp.
And the setting would need a total revamp. In fact, the best way to handle the setting would be to take the premise of multiple worlds invading the Earth and just do it as a modern day setting with no ties to the original "Possibility Wars" (an "Earth-2" or "Ultimate" version if you will). You could keep the invading realms that worked and replace the ones that didn't work so well with something new. Plus the new geo-political realities of the world ca 2008 would make for a remarkably different "Core Earth" setting than the post-Soviet Union collapse of the original game anyway. I'd love to see it, though I doubt it'll ever happen.
I actually sent an enquiring email asking for more info.
Brown Jenkin
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Would that be for a ENWorld Fan/Membership bid or would that be for ENWorld Publishing to buy it. Either would be fine.
