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The PR Report for April 2, 2004, 2004:
Issaries Licenses HeroQuest Game Engine to Firebird
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 the author of the Imperial Lunar Handbook supplement.
"I waited 27 years for HeroQuest, the perfect system to bring Glorantha to life," says Greg Stafford, . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: April 2, 2004
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