Chaosium Kicks Kickstarter Licensees

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Chaosium recently slapped several people who had license affiliation with them for not delivering on Kickstarter projects.

Below is from the newsletter that I subscribe to:

Licensee Focus:

Follow up on several long-overdue Kickstarters by licensees...

Chaosium has recently been in touch with the creators of several overdue licensed Kickstarters. We are keen to see these projects through, and for backers to be updated regularly about progress. Here is our report...

Horrors of War
Chaosium met with Scott Glancy of Pagan Publishing at Gen Con and discussed the Horrors of War license. We have confidence Scott can deliver on this project in the revised time frame he has put forward, and that he will give backers timely updates about progress until it is done.

Punktown
Chaosium recently spoke to Tom Lynch of Miskatonic River Press. Although the Punktown Kickstarter is way, way overdue (launched in Nov 2012!) a 50% preview of the book has been recently shared with backers, and the second half is in the final stages of layout (work on this being undertaken by Angus Abranson of Chronicle City for Miskatonic River Press). For this reason Chaosium has decided to keep the Punktown license in place and we'll hopefully get to see this much-delayed project taken through to completion in the coming months.

Writhing Dark & Writhing Dark Extended Edition
We don't want backers to be prevented by Chaosium from getting what they've paid Shane Tyree to produce, although we would be within our rights to terminate his Kickstarter agreements. But because Shane has the actual product in hand and sincerely states that he still wishes to deliver, we have instead issued a special license extension. This is strictly limited to fulfilling the original Writhing Dark and Extended Edition Kickstarter rewards and expires on completion.


Seems like the rejuvenated Chaosium is getting its (extended) house in order.

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