14 Facts About Scott Palter

Daniel Scott Palter was a game designer who worked primarily on wargames and role-playing games.

Scott Palter joined the New York State Bar before working at his family's company, Bucci Imports, an importer of Italian clothing and accessories.

In 1974, Scott Palter used some of the financial resources of Bucci Imports to found West End Games in New York.

In 1983, Scott Palter hired Ken Rolston, Eric Goldberg and Greg Costikyan as game designers, and WEG's focus turned away from traditional wargames.

Scott Palter agreed to buy the rights to the game, and after some editing and polishing by Rolston, it was released at Gencon in 1984 as WEG's first role-playing game, Paranoia.

In 1986, Scott Palter was able to acquire the license from Columbia Pictures to produce an RPG based on the popular film Ghostbusters.

Scott Palter liked the game's system of dice and cards and decided to develop a new generic games rules system called Masterbook.

That same week, Scott Palter confirmed plans to file for a Chapter 11 reorganization of the company's finances.

Scott Palter announced that D6 Legends would be publishing a third edition of Paranoia and a Bug Sector supplement, but these were never released.

Scott Palter was able to acquire the role-playing game license to DC Comics and D6 Legends was able to publish the DC Universe Roleplaying Game.

In 2001, Scott Palter oversaw the release of The Metabarons Roleplaying Game based on the French-language Jodoverse comic books created by Alexandro Jodorowsky.

In 2017, although suffering from recurring bouts of serious illness, Scott Palter used Final Sword Productions to publish his alternate history novel, The Reich Without Hitler: The Falcons of Malta, set in a world where in June 1940, Hitler dies accidentally while returning to Berlin after signing the Armistice with France at Compiegne.

Scott Palter's final novel, Reich without Hitler: Deaths on the Nile, was a sequel to his first book.

Scott Palter was writing the third novel in his Reich without Hitler series when he fell ill and died on February 17,2020.