HeroQuest and QuestWorlds update
It is a great pleasure to announce that HeroQuest is about to undergo a major update, both in terms of
content and purpose. Robin D. Laws (of Feng Shui, Dying Earth, Over the Edge and of course
HeroQuest fame) is back on board to rewrite the HeroQuest Core Rulebook, due to hit store
shelves in the Summer of 2007. This new edition has two main purposes: to streamline the HeroQuest mechanics
AND make the HeroQuest system ready to use for any roleplaying setting.
As the original designer of the HeroQuest rules, Robin is the perfect person to open the system up to
science-fiction, historical, horror, and fantasy-based settings. He will be distilling the current rulebook down to
just the rules, refining them, and adding in copious examples of using them for a variety of roleplaying genres,
which we call QuestWorlds. All of the Gloranthan material the rulebook used to contain will find a new
updated home in separate HeroQuest supplements. It will become our flagship QuestWorld,
but now joined by many others.
"When presented with this great opportunity to revisit the HeroQuest system, I had to jump at it," Laws
says. "Loaded with examples and GM advice, this new version will be the system's most straightforward, easy-to-learn
iteration ever."
To support the HeroQuest system with many QuestWorlds supplements, we are seeking writers
to help develop genre books. If you are keen to write a book for a game setting, please contact our Acquisitions Editor,
Mark Galeotti (Mark@Glorantha.com), who also happened to write the first alternate setting using
the HeroQuestrules, Mythic Russia.
Rick Meints
Moon Design Publications
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