HeroQuest
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Author BiosGreg StaffordRobin Laws Peter Metcalfe Roderick Robertson Greg Stafford
Greg Stafford discovered Glorantha in 1966 and began a life-long creative effort to explore and popularize the world. In 1974 he began his first game company, Chaosium. He published the first Gloranthan game the next year, named White Bear and Red Moon, which was followed in 1977 by Nomad Gods, another board game. In 1978 Chaosium published RuneQuest, a revolutionary and popular roleplaying game also based upon Glorantha. Since then, Greg has contributed to dozens of supplements and hundreds of articles on Glorantha. Greg is also game designer, developer, and author of King Arthur: Pendragon, the award-winning game on Arthurian Roleplaying; many Pendragon supplements; five other board games; and another six roleplaying games and books. Greg is also on the board of directors of Shaman's Drum, a magazine about real world shamanism. Greg is an inductee of the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Hall of Fame and the Pen&Paper Fan Awards Hall of Fame. Greg was born in 1948, is married to Suzanne Courteau, and has three children: Noah, Alisha, and Jason. Greg founded Issaries, Inc. in 1997 to continue the publication of Gloranthan games and books. Issaries, Inc. released the Hero Wars roleplaying game in 2000. Glorantha and HeroQuest, a new roleplaying game to be published in 2002, continue Greg's lifelong commitment to Glorantha. Robin LawsRobin D. Laws has been designing games for a living since 1993. His notable credits include the hit RPG Feng Shui, the Over the Edge novel Pierced Heart from Atlas Games, and the co-designer duties on the trading card game Shadowfist. Robin is the author of over a dozen roleplaying sourcebooks and adventures, and a contributor to many more. His publishers include Wizards of the Coast, FASA, Pinnacle, Mayfair and Steve Jackson Games. Robin also served as a member of the design team for another exciting Glorantha project, the computer game King of Dragon Pass from A-Sharp. Upcoming projects include Pantheon and Other Roleplaying Games from Hogshead Publishing, as well as a veritable slew of contributions to Last Unicorn's Star Trek line. Robin lives in Toronto, well-known as the best city in the world, with his lovely wife Valerie. In his secret identity, he indulges his interest in cinema and continues to accumulate an alarming number of CDs. A Glorantha fan since he was a teenager, Robin feels profoundly honored to help bring Greg Stafford's world to a new generation of gamers.Peter MetcalfePeter Metcalfe lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was born in the year of Woodstock and has been trying to act contrary to its ideals ever since. Having misspent most of his adult years in dissolute study of esoteric topics in an ivory-towered asylum, he is now happily free. He has been interested in Glorantha ever since he was in short trousers.Other hobbies of his are all kinds of history, nitpicking and being a smartarse in various forums. This is his first work. Roderick RobertsonRoderick is a native Californian, who never learned to drive. He is married, with many pets. He has a BA in Medieval Studies, and has worked in libraries and as computer programmer, but left the corporate world in 1999 to pursue a lucrative profession in the Role-playing industry. He is the Line Developer for the King Arthur, Pendragon roleplaying game, as well as the editor of the Hero Wars series of books. He recently sold his home in Silicon Valley to move back to the Sierra Foothills, building a house on the family ranch and taking care of his mother. |
