[2]: 186 In 1983, Palter hired Ken Rolston, Eric Goldberg and Greg Costikyan as game designers, and WEG's focus turned away from traditional wargames.
Then Costikyan and Goldberg brought Palter a manuscript for a role-playing game that originally had been conceived by their friend Dan Gelber.
[2]: 191 Experiencing high expenses and low margins, Palter made the decision in 1988 to move WEG from New York to the more rural Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
Palter used this new system for in a series of licensed role-playing adaptions of popular franchises: Indiana Jones, Necroscope, Species, Tales from the Crypt, Tank Girl, The World of Aden, and WEG's final product, the Hercules & Xena Roleplaying Game.
[2]: 194 Palter looked for someone to bail the company out, and on March 23, 1999 he announced that the French company Yeti Entertainment (itself owned by Humanoids Publishing) had purchased West End, creating a new entity called D6 Legends Inc.[2]: 195 After a court-supervised sale of WEG products and assets to pay off debts,[6][7] Yeti purchased West End's remaining intellectual property and trademarks, as well as licensing contracts for Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Xena, and brought in Palter in to manage them.
[2]: 195 In 2001, Palter oversaw the release of The Metabarons Roleplaying Game based on the French-language Jodoverse comic books created by Alexandro Jodorowsky.
[11] In 2017, although suffering from recurring bouts of serious illness, 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 Compiègne.