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Issaries licenses HeroQuest game engine to Firebird Productions

Since the release of the HeroQuest roleplaying game last year, its powerful rules system has not only led to an explosion of interest in its setting (the fantasy world of Glorantha), it has also been used by players to explore a multitude of other settings, from Middle Earth to comic book superheroes. With its free-flowing rules and its capacity to be adapted for play at any level of power, from barroom brawls to the epic clashes of gods and demons, it has proven flexible and popular.

So far, these adaptations of the HeroQuest engine have been limited to fan ventures. Now, however, Issaries Inc. is pleased to announce that it has licensed Firebird Productions to use the engine in 'Mythic Russia.' Written and produced by Mark Galeotti, an academic expert in Russian history, this standalone book will adapt the core HeroQuest rules to roleplaying in the ancient Russia of legend and folktale. Players will adventure through this land of glittering onion-domed churches and dark, dangerous forests, home to heroes and fiends -- and the flame-feathered firebird. Mark is also one of the developers of HeroQuest, acquisitions editor for Issaries, Inc., and an author of the Imperial Lunar Handbook supplement.

"I waited twenty-seven years for HeroQuest, the perfect system to bring Glorantha to life," says Greg Stafford, president of Issaries, Inc. "I am delighted that it won't take nearly that long for the game engine to bring magic and adventure to other settings, too." Mark Galeotti adds, "For me this is a labor of love, at last finding the system that will allow the kind of the superhuman heroics and mythic weirdness you find in Russian folk epics. However, I see this as just the tip of the iceberg: HeroQuest is so versatile and fun that I expect others will choose to adopt it to open up other genres and settings."

Mythic Russia is scheduled for a winter 2004/2005 release. See the Firebird Productions website for more information, contact information here.