Skip to content
The Well of Daliath
Menu
Menu

Issaries Inc. (1999-2013)

Issaries, Inc. was a game publisher incorporated in in 1999 by Greg Stafford. It partnered with Moon Design Publications to develop the flagship roleplaying game HeroQuest which was first released in 2000 as Hero Wars. In 2003, it acquired the HeroQuest trademarks from Hasbro, which led to the licensing of a new edition of RuneQuest. The company’s last statement was in 2013 and is now listed as Dissolved.

Greg Stafford founded Issaries to hold the trademarks and copyrights for Glorantha obtaining them from Chaosium. To deal with funding difficulties, in August 1997 Chaosium issued a press release to offer shares of Issaries for $100 each, planning to start the company after raising $50,000 so that a new Glorantha-based RPG could be produced. Stafford approached Robin Laws to create a new game, which became known as Hero Wars, and was published by Issaries in 2000. The original run of Hero Wars sold out in 2003, so Stafford published the second edition of his game based on Glorantha as HeroQuest. Stafford moved to Mexico in 2004, at which point Issaries stopped publishing RPGs, and when he came back to the US in 2005 he used Issaries to license the Glorantha rights to other companies such as Mongoose Publishing and Moon Design Publications.

Products

  • Fiction & Reference
  • Issaries Hero Wars Products (2000-2003)
  • Issaries HeroQuest 1 Products (2003-2007)
  • Issaries, Inc. Publication Plans (2007)

Related Pages

  • A Sharp
  • Ace Games (FIN)
  • Apprentices Guild (1994)
  • Avalon Hill (1983-1995)
  • Chaosium Publications
  • D101 Games
  • Edge Entertainment (ESP)
  • Games Workshop (GBR)
  • Greg Stafford & The Stafford Library
  • Guild Corporation of Japan (JPN)
  • Hero Wars (JPN 2001)
  • Hobby Japan (JPN 1988-1994)
  • Humakt e.V. (DEU 2017-)
  • Inter-Cre-Atif (FRA 1994)
  • JOC Internacional (ESP 1985-1998)
  • Judges Guild (1976-1985)
  • Kaland Horizont Könyvek (HUN 2020-)
  • La Rune Dans Le Caniveau (FRA)
  • Les Erudits de l’Ambiguc (FRA)
  • Mongoose Publishing (2006-2011)
  • Moon Design Publications (1999-2016)
  • MultiSim (FRA 1992-2003)
  • Non-Gloranthan HeroQuest Publishers
  • Non-Gloranthan RuneQuest Publishers
  • Oriflam (FRA 1987-1996)
  • Pelgrane Press (GBR 2000-)
  • Petersen Games
  • Reaching Moon MegaCorp
  • RuneQuest-Gesellschaft (DEU 1991-)
  • Studio Deadcrows (FRA)
  • The Design Mechanism
  • The Unspoken Word
  • To Sort / Categorise
  • Uhrwerk Verlag (DEU 2019-2021)
  • Welt der Spiele (DEU 1991-1996)

Publisher

Page Last updated: 2021-12-20 12:08:57

Sections

  • Search Tips
  • Current RuneQuest Glorantha Publications
  • RuneQuest Glorantha Corrections and Q&A
  • Catalogue
  • References for Glorantha
    • Gloranthan Canon
  • Gloranthan Documents
  • RPG Systems & Versions
  • Gallery
  • About This Site
  • Get involved!

Latest Posts

  • The Grasslands of Prax

    Something to keep in mind about Prax. The grasslands of …
  • Praxian Kinship Groups

    Praxian tribes are divided into smaller kinship groups or clans, …
  • Lunar Resettlement of Tarsh after 1460 ST

    After 1460, large sections of Peloria (especially east of the …
  • The Spread of the Lunar Way

    In the Lunar Provinces, about 26% of the total population …
  • Gods of Fire and Sky and the Lunar Way

    The Gods of Fire and Sky co-exist alongside the Lunar …
  • How Much Land is a Hide?

    So in RQ, a “hide” is a unit of accounting …
  • Agricultural Data for RuneQuest

    Back in the late 70s and early 80s, Greg‘s only …
  • Farming in Dara Happa

    In anticipation of the Fire/Sky Book, here’s a few notes …
  • Farming in the Big Rubble

    There are some 1600 humans in the Big Rubble, with …

Links

  • Chaosium
  • Chaosium’s RuneQuest RPG Wiki
  • Glorantha on BRP Central
  • RuneQuest on BRP Central
  • RuneQuest on Discord
  • Prince of Sartar Webcomic
  • Glorantha G+ Archives on Tapatalk
  • Search mailing list archive

Latest from BRP Central

  • Thoughts on running an Animal Nomad/Praxian game
  • Fillable excel RQG character sheets?
  • Where is there a list of temples in Dragon Pass?
  • New on the Jonstown Compendium: Many Suns
  • control entity spirit spell question
  • creating a spirit cult of Fralar
  • Subcults vs Associated Cults
  • Gorgorma and Dendara's Chess Game
  • Merged deities
  • Elf plant ships and dwarf stone ships

Popular Tags

Boldhome (large city) Chaosium Colymar (Sartar tribe) Contents Cult demographics Cults of Runequest (preview) Ernalda Esrolia (homeland) FRA Furthest (large city) G+ post Gods Wall Greg Stafford Guide to Glorantha (preview) Humakt Jar-eel Lunar Empire Lunar Pantheon Magazine Malkioni pantheon Map Michael O’Brien Mongoose MRQ1 New Pavis (small city) Old Glorantha Q&A Orlanth Orlanthi pantheon Photo reference Population demographics Prax (homeland) RQ3 RQG Sandy Petersen Sartar (homeland) Spirit Cult Star Subcult Tapatalk post Tarsh (homeland & Lunar province) Troll Pantheon Yelm Yelmalio Yelm Pantheon Youtube

Recently added or updated

  • Spirit Magic by Cult and Associate Cult

  • ISS1102 Glorantha: Introduction to the Hero Wars (2000)

  • Dragon Pass – A brief outline (2013)

  • Some Fronelan Population And Cultural Details

  • Notes on Fronela III

  • Notes on Fronela II

  • Notes on Fronela I

  • Hon-eel Temples and Shrine

  • Seven Mothers Temples and Shrines

  • Ernalda Temples and Shrines

  • Barntar Temples and Shrines

  • Babeester Gor Temple and Shrines

  • Voria Shrines

  • Ty Kora Tek Temples and Shrines

  • Asrelia Temples and Shrines

  • Maran Gor Temple, Shrines and Site

  • Odayla Shrines

  • Humakt Temples, Shrines and Sites

  • Orlanth Rex Temples, Shrines and Sites

  • Hippoi Shrines

©2025 The Well of Daliath | Design: Newspaperly WordPress Theme