FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Issaries Licenses HeroQuest Game Engine to Firebird Productions
Mythic Russia to be the first non-Gloranthan HeroQuest release
28 March 2004
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 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 at <http://www.firebird-productions.com> for more information, or
contact Mark Galeotti at <>.
For
information on HeroQuest, see the Issaries, Inc. website <http://www.heroquest-rpg.com>
or contact Stephen Martin at <>
For More Information Contact:
Firebird Productions
PO Box 278, Madeley nr Crewe, Cheshire CW3 9YY, UK
Internet:
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to the Mythic Russia game and setting is
copyright © Mark Galeotti 2004-5.