* Hero Wars: Roleplaying in Glorantha, containing the core rules ( now superseded by HeroQuest ).

* HeroQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, containing the complete rules and an introduction to the Glorantha setting.

White Bear and Red Moon is notable for containing the first published material about Glorantha, later used as the primary setting for the role-playing games RuneQuest, Hero Wars and HeroQuest.

Green Knight Publishing formed to focus on Pendragon, Chaosium " proper " retained Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, and Mythos, while Greg Stafford founded Issaries, Inc. to publish HeroQuest and focus on bringing new Glorantha related material into print.

Various later editions of RuneQuest, the narrative role-playing game HeroQuest ( the first edition of which was published as Hero Wars ), and the video game King of Dragon Pass were also set in Glorantha, as were several prominent fan efforts.

Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.

* Glorantha. com-Issaries website containing information about Glorantha and HeroQuest

Stafford is perhaps most famous as the creator of the fantasy world of Glorantha, but is also a prolific games designer-he was designer of Pendragon, he was co-designer of the RuneQuest, Ghostbusters, Prince Valiant and HeroQuest role-playing systems, founder of the role-playing game companies Chaosium and Issaries, designer of the White Bear and Red Moon, Nomad Gods, King Arthur ’ s Knights and Elric!

Early editions of the HeroQuest system were published by Issaries Inc., designed to be the RPG system of choice for Greg Stafford's fantasy world of Glorantha, effectively replacing the 1980s RuneQuest.

Elves of Glorantha ( setting for the role-playing games RuneQuest and HeroQuest ) share little with Tolkien's elves but their connection with forests and their preference of archery-they are mobile, humanoid plants.

The HeroQuest game system, written by Robin Laws in collaboration with Greg Stafford, is radically different from RuneQuest in that it emphasises narrativist aspects of role-playing ; in contrast, RuneQuest emphasised simulationist aspects.

HeroQuest, sometimes also written as Hero Quest, is an adventure board game that was created by Milton Bradley in conjunction with the British company Games Workshop and set in the latter's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe.

A HeroQuest Adventure Design Kit was released in Europe in 1990, containing items to help HeroQuest players design their own quests, and an Adventure Design Booklet was published with 4 sheets of adhesive labels and with an 80-page pad of a new design, larger character sheet.

Where some games reward memorization, an instinct for math, and the willingness to comb through multiple rulebooks for the most useful super powers, HeroQuest tips the scales for creative improvisation, verbal acuity, and a familiarity with the techniques and stereotypes of popular fiction.

However, the Fimir did not prove popular, and disappeared with the 4th edition of WFB, although this did give them time to make a guest-starring appearance in Milton Bradley's HeroQuest.

2000 ) and HeroQuest ( 1st ed.

Today, new official material is appearing for two game systems, the HeroQuest game system and RuneQuest II, originally produced by Mongoose Publishing but now available from The Design Mechanism.

Because of this change in approach some RuneQuest fans found it difficult to adjust to HeroQuest.

Milton Bradley successfully trademarked an electronic version of their unrelated joint Games Workshop board game, HeroQuest, which forced Sierra to change the series ' title to Quest for Glory.

The image was also used on the character sheet for the Dwarf character in HeroQuest.

Skaven also formed the core opponents of Games Workshop's popular Advanced HeroQuest adventure game, released in 1990.

3 HeroQuest novels were published: The Fellowship of the Four, The Screaming Spectre and The Tyrant's Tomb ; and a computer game adaptation was released in 1991, forcing Sierra On-Line to rename their Hero's Quest series to Quest for Glory.

Advanced HeroQuest was a revised and expanded version of the HeroQuest game.

It was the company's third board game that was adapted as a video game ; the previous two board games were HeroQuest and Space Crusade, whose video game adaptations were both published by Gremlin Graphics.

Advanced Heroquest was a 1989 sequel to HeroQuest, published by Games Workshop.

Changes from HeroQuest included more complex and RPG-like rules, a modular board and the use of henchmen.

An expansion to Advanced HeroQuest called Terror In The Dark was released in 1991, adding new monsters, treasures and spells.

The included quest featured the heroes being pitted against the Lichemaster, one of the adversaries from the original HeroQuest.

Advanced HeroQuest also had a system for randomly generating dungeons.

Books with a quick and inexpensive printed format of tape binding and printed cardstock covers, the four monographs ( Players Book, Magic Book, Creatures Book, and Gamemaster Book ) were printed in order to assert Chaosium's copyrights in the run-up to the publishing and distribution of Deluxe Basic Roleplaying, a game system that is essentially RuneQuest 3rd Edition but with additions to allow play in other genres.

Marketed as a " Visionary Roleplaying Game ", it has often been characterized as an innovative piece with a limited commercial success.

The Ringworld Roleplaying Game describes it as an ocean planet dotted with island shield volcanoes.

Roleplaying is one of the primary activities of MUSHes, along with socializing.

Rolemaster Fantasy Roleplaying ( or RMFRP ) was first published in 1999 as a reorganized edition of RMSS, and is largely compatible with that edition.

In 1999 the game underwent a slight restructuring when Rolemaster Fantasy Roleplaying ( RMFRP ) was released, but this was mostly a rearranging of material with very few changes to the rules themselves.

Like the original, this revised module was designed for use with the contemporaneously released Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying Game boxed set for D & D Essentials, which is oriented towards the beginning player.

* Gamma World Roleplaying Game Rulebook ( with Bruce R. Cordell ) ( 2010 )

* Gamma World Roleplaying Game Expansion: Legion of Gold ( with Bruce R. Cordell ) ( 2011 )

* In the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, cacodaemons appear as a low-level demon with features similar to the ones found in Doom.

* The Terran Trade Authority Roleplaying Game ( by K. Scott Agnew & Jeff Lilly, with foreword by Stewart Cowley ) ( October 2006 ) ( Book info )

Tolkien Enterprises then made a new licensing agreement with Decipher Inc. for their Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game.

Dan Smith, with fellow graphic designers Jeff Koke and Derek Pearcy, won the 1997 Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement for the role-playing game In Nomine .< ref >

The second edition is officially called World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game, but both editions are commonly referred to as the " Warcraft RPG " or " Warcraft tabletop " to avoid confusion with the World of Warcraft MMORPG.

In 2005 White Wolf Publishing updated the rules for the game into a new edition and renamed the series World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game to tie in with the success of World of Warcraft, under the Open Gaming License.

The Sourcebook of the Sovereign Lands and the Mythos of the Divine and Worldly were combined with nearly 100, 000 words of new material for the Kingdoms of Kalamar campaign setting, which was nominated for the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game in 2001.

It is an adaptation of, and mostly compatible with, the Rolemaster Fantasy Roleplaying system, and as such any perceived failings / strengths of the latter also apply to Space Master.

It published Serenity Roleplaying Game in late 2005 to coincide with the release of Joss Whedon's feature film Serenity based on the television series Firefly.