Thanks, Rick, that's useful to know. May I include it in the "History of RuneQuest" article on my RQ site? It really should be posted somewhere.<br><br>And while you're here, is "The RuneQuest Collectors Checklist" (RuneQuest - Collectors_Checklist_RuneQuest_1.0.pdf) by "Richard" (no other name provided) yours?<br>
<br>->Peter<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Rick Meints <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmeints@gmail.com">rmeints@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hello all,</div><div><br></div><div>I have been reading the posts on this list for the last few weeks regarding Issaries, Moon Design Publications, the Reaching Moon Megacorp, the Design Mechanism, etc. and how they all fit together. Now that I am back from working overseas I thought I would take some time to shed some light on the subject.</div>
<div> </div><div>Issaries Inc. is owned by Greg Stafford. He controls the 3 trademarks for Glorantha, Heroquest and Runequest. He also owns the intellectual property rights to Glorantha. While Issaries Inc. was the original publisher of Heroquest RPG material, the company is now mainly used by Greg to issue publication licenses for Heroquest, Runequest, and Glorantha. Greg still writes too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Moon Design Publications is owned by Rick Meints and Jeff Richard. We currently hold the license to the Heroquest trademark and have a license to use the Glorantha trademark. We also have the rights to reprint much of the "RQ 2nd edition copyrighted material" as we have done via the Gloranthan Classics series of reprints. We are the current publisher of Heroquest Gloranthan material, and we also license third party companies, such as Alephtar Games and D101 Games, to publish Heroquest publications.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Design Mechanism is owned by Lawrence "Loz" Whitaker and Pete Nash. They are the current holders of the Runequest trademark license, and also have a license to publish Gloranthan material.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Reaching Moon Megacorp is/was David Hall's UK based company. They have not published anything for about 10 years. They are most famous for their publication of the "Tales of the Reaching Moon" magazine, which ran for 20 issues. David (and the Megacorp) has largely retired from RPG publishing. I used to help David on a number of his projects. </div>
<div><br></div><div>All of the specifically named people mentioned above are all friends that have known each other for about 20 years (give or take a few years). We have worked together on many projects in various combinations, and you may often see us at the Continuum and Eternal Conventions in Europe. We continue to work on various projects together. Moon Design is going to help the Design Mechanism publish their Runequest material. Pete and Loz are also signed up to write some Gloranthan Heroquest books for Moon Design. </div>
<div><br></div><div>No merging, no conspiracies, and no big secrets. We publish what we can, as we can. We all encourage and support each other. I suppose it would be wonderful if we all worked for one big global company, but that just isn't the way it has worked out. I'm in Michigan, Jeff is in Germany, Greg is in California, Loz is in Canada, and Pete is in Sweden. We're happy to chat about all of the above, time permitting.</div>
</div><br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Rick Meints<br>
<div>Moon Design Publications</div>
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