Bill Coffin Explained

Bill Coffin
Birth Name:William P. Coffin
Birth Date:17 September 1970
Birth Place:Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education:B.A. English, cum laude
Period:April 1995 – present
Notableworks:Heroes Unlimited

Century Station and Gramercy Island
Palladium Fantasy RPG regional adventure guides
Rifts: Coalition Wars
Septimus
Systems Failure

Spouse:Allison B. Higgins
Awards:George A. Mahan Award for Creative Writing

Bill Coffin (born September 17, 1970) is a writer of novels and role-playing games in the fantasy and science fiction genres. Perhaps best known for his work at Palladium Books from July 1998 through May 2002, he made significant contributions to several of Palladium's game series, most notably Palladium Fantasy, but also Heroes Unlimited and Rifts, and created his own game, Systems Failure.

Career

Bill Coffin is a well-received author who made many books for Palladium Books from 1988 through 2002.[1] He was a contributor to both the Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing and Rifts role-playing games.[1] In his post-apocalyptic role-playing game Systems Failure (1999), Y2K really happened.[1] However, due to a conflict with Kevin Siembieda, the president and co-founder of Palladium Books, Coffin left the company, much to the disappointment of his fans.[2] Siembieda wound up firing Coffin over editorial differences and discontent against the Rifts Coalition Wars (which the two had co-authored).[1] At the time of his departure, Coffin was the lead author of six titles in the final stages of production.[3] He was subsequently demoted to second- and third-author status on two of these books prior to their release,[4] and the other four were ultimately shelved and have not been rescheduled for publication.[5] [6] [7] [8] In addition, having only received limited support from Palladium, Systems Failure has since gone out of print.[9]

In March 2007, it was revealed that Coffin was working on Septimus, a new campaign setting for the D6 Space core book for West End Games.[10] However, due to financial concerns, the publisher cancelled the project in March 2008.[11] Shortly thereafter, Coffin declared that he would release the game as a PDF under Evil Hat Productions' FATE system.[12] [13] In May 2009, West End Games announced that they had agreed to publish Septimus again and that it would be released August 2009.[14] Eric Gibson released Bill Coffin's Septimus in 2009 as a PDF, which became the last product released by West End Games.[1]

Bibliography

Palladium Books

Heroes Unlimited

Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game

Rifts

Systems Failure

The Rifter

West End Games

Novels

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Shannon Appelcline. Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. 2011. 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. Web site: Thread: What's up with Palladium and BTS? . User: Bill Coffin . September 23, 2003 . RPGnet tabletop roleplaying forum . Skotos Tech . . Post 227 . July 15, 2012.
  3. Smith . W. . April 2002 . The Rifter . 18 . 10–13, 15 . . . 978-1-57457-071-7. Rifter Eighteen .
  4. Palladium Fantasy RPG—Land of the Damned Two: Eternal Torment and Wolfen Empire Adventure Sourcebook (formerly Adventures in the Northern Wilderness, Second Edition) – Smith . W. . July 2002 . The Rifter . 19 . 11 . Palladium Books . Taylor, MI . 978-1-57457-076-2. The Rifter Number Nineteen: Your Guide to the Megaverse .
  5. Rifts Dimension Book Six: Cosmo-Knights (final advertisement) – Smith . W. . July 2002 . The Rifter . 19 . 13, 17 . Palladium Books . Taylor, MI . 978-1-57457-076-2. The Rifter Number Nineteen: Your Guide to the Megaverse .
  6. RECON: Modern Combat (final advertisement) – Smith . W. . October 2002 . The Rifter . 20 . 8, 13 . Palladium Books . Taylor, MI . 978-1-57457-077-9. Rifter Twenty .
  7. Hardware/Gizmos Unlimited: A Heroes Unlimited Sourcebook (final advertisement) – Smith . W. . April 2003 . The Rifter . 22 . 96 . Palladium Books . Taylor, MI . 978-1-57457-081-6. The Rifter: Your Guide to the Megaverse .
  8. Palladium Fantasy RPG—Land of the Damned Three: The Bleakness (final advertisement) – Smith . W. . July 2004 . The Rifter . 35 . 29C . Palladium Books . Taylor, MI . 978-1-57457-167-7. The Rifter 35 Summer Swimsuit Issue .
  9. Stott . R. . Merrow . S. . Smith . W . January 2004 . Questions & Answers . The Rifter . 25 . 92 . Palladium Books . Taylor, MI . 978-1-57457-098-4 . amp . Though adventures and source-material for it appear in The Rifter from time to time, the line is dead and the RPG will eventually go out of print..
  10. Web site: Thread: Bill Coffin Returns With New D6 Game . User: hellsreach . March 12, 2007 . RPGnet tabletop roleplaying forum . Skotos Tech . Berkeley, CA . July 15, 2012.
  11. Web site: Thread: Bill Coffin's Septimus Cancelled . User: trechiron . March 31, 2008 . RPGnet tabletop roleplaying forum . Skotos Tech . Berkeley, CA . July 15, 2012.
  12. Web site: Thread: Bill Coffin's Septimus Cancelled . User: Bill Coffin . May 22, 2008 . RPGnet tabletop roleplaying forum . Skotos Tech . Berkeley, CA . Post 193 . July 15, 2012.
  13. Web site: Thread: Bill Coffin's Septimus Cancelled . User: Bill Coffin . May 23, 2008 . RPGnet tabletop roleplaying forum . Skotos Tech . Berkeley, CA . Post 208 . July 15, 2012.
  14. Web site: Thread: Bill Coffin's Septimus coming out August 2009, apparently . User: Kai Tave . May 17, 2009 . RPGnet tabletop roleplaying forum . Skotos Tech . Berkeley, CA . July 15, 2012.

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