About Us

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FARSIGHT GAMES was originally founded by Jonathan Hicks in 2007 to produce a science fiction roleplaying game called SPIRIT. It was abandoned early 2008 as the game was uncompleted and the market simply was not there to support another game system.

In June 2008 it became apparent there was still a lot of unused material in Jonathan's archives, and he set about sorting it all out. In this material he discovered three complete and unused roleplaying systems, two complete settings, the seeds of eight other settings, and copious notes on rules, game types and designs. It was decided that this material would get some use, but there simply was not enough hours in the day or market demand to create and distribute complete games, and support them later on with supplements and adventures.

So the idea came to mind that the games should be made simple, that they should be short and easy to run. Prospective players should be able to download, print off and read and understand the rules within an hour. Not only that, the games should be cheap.

There has been an increasing trend recently in one-shot gaming, the desire to run a simple, one-off game so that minimal effort can be put into creation, a game is needed at a moment's notice or there's a lull between major campaigns. This is where these games come in - initially, they can be downloaded, printed off, learned and be ready to run in less than half an hour. Later adventures can be downloaded, printed off and ready to go in minutes. 

So, it was decided that FARSIGHT GAMES should be restarted as a small part-time company, and that it should create and make available fast, easy games for the new gamer and the experienced one, and not only that but get them involved creating their own simple adventures and settings.

We hope you have fun!

Jonathan Hicks has been playing roleplaying games since early 1984 - that's a lot of gaming. In all that time he has GM'd 27 different systems, played in more than 30, been published in the short lived 'ARCANE' roleplaying magazine, has written various articles for the online roleplaying tips website www.roleplayingtips.com, has been published twice by the British Science Fiction Association in their writer's magazine 'FOCUS', designed the missions and written the dialogue for a video game of new and acclaimed TV series 'BATTLESTAR GALACTICA', and is the author of the short story collection 'THOSE DARK PLACES'.