Editing Paranoia (role-playing game) (section)

===Unreleased West End Games Third Edition===
Following the unfavorable reception of the Fifth Edition, West End Games began planning a new edition of the game, which would be released as the "Third Edition". Pages from this planned edition were exhibited at [[Gen Con]] in 1997<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.costik.com/weblog/2004/02/paranoia-returns.html |title= Paranoia Returns
 |access-date = 2007-01-17
 |date    = 2004-02-19
 |last     = Costikyan
 |first       = Greg
 |author-link  = Greg Costikyan
 |work        = Games * Design * Art * Culture
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20080612082821/http://www.costik.com/weblog/2004/02/paranoia-returns.html
 |archive-date = 12 June 2008
}}</ref> — two years after the release of the Fifth Edition. Due to West End Games' financial problems this edition was never completed. In an interview in 1999<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=731
| title = Pyramid Interviews: Scott Palter
| access-date = 2007-04-24
| last = Haring
| first = Scott D.
| date = 16 April 1999
| publisher = Steve Jackson Games
}}</ref> [[Scott Palter]] of West End expressed hopes that the Third Edition would be published that summer; however, he also disclosed that court proceedings had been begun by the original designers in order to reclaim the rights to the game. The designers did succeed in purchasing the rights to the game, putting an end to any possibility that the final West End Games edition would be released.

A single adventure has surfaced which contained a summary of the Third Edition rules.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.tasteslikephoenix.com/articles/tubes.html
| title = Down the Tubes
| access-date = 2007-08-28
| last1 = Hepler
| first1 = Chris
| first2=Jennifer |last2=Brandes
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070828035939/http://www.tasteslikephoenix.com/articles/tubes.html |archive-date = 2007-08-28
}}</ref>