MShipley88 wrote:How did the partnership with Avalon Hill to print RuneQuest items come about?
MShipley88 wrote:Obviously, RuneQuest followed soon after the board games....or did it? Was RuneQuest the company's first role-playing venture?
Where do the All the Worlds Monsters books fit into the timeline...since the first edition has sometimes been refered to as pre-dating Chaosium itself?
MShipley88 wrote:How did the partnership with Avalon Hill to print RuneQuest items come about? Was it really a partnership, or something else?
Xaxaxe wrote:And why did AH suck the life right out of Runequest like a ... like a ... damnit, what were the "vampires" in RQ called again?
MShipley88 wrote:How did the Midkemia products become Chaosium products?
MShipley88 wrote:How did the Thieves World project come about? For instance, how did Chaosium become involved with Robert Asprin's shared world project?
What kind of impact did Thieves World have on the RPG genre? Did it sell well?
Were there any conflicts with Gamelords over their Thieves Guild products? ("Haven" and "Sanctuary" seem too coincidental, for instance.)
Also, how did FASA come to publish a series of Thieves World adventures?
MShipley88 wrote:What is the etymology of the name, "Issaries?"
MShipley88 wrote:How did Chaosium come to split into three companies...Issaries, Chaosium and Wizard's Attic?
MShipley88 wrote:I notice that you have always taken steps to defend the Glorantha world setting. You protected it from Avalon Hill and you seem to have formed Issaries for the specific purpose of keeping control of your creation. Clearly, in your mind it is your foremost creation.
Was the protection of the Glorantha setting also one of the reasons that White Bear Red Moon was inspired by the Glorantha materials, but not actually set in Glorantha until you published it yourself? Were you making sure that your core creation was not sold to a game company along with that game?
Dragon Pass was a successor to White Bear Red Moon and was actually published by Avalon Hill.
Did your contract to publish Dragon Pass specifically protect Glorantha as your intellectual property?
Also (yes...I have many many questions), how does Lords of the Middle Sea connect to the Glorantha materials?
MShipley88 wrote:Ok...let me check my facts: The four-way split of Chaosium must have taken place in 1998. (Which was eight years ago, as you have mentioned and is the year that Green Knight was formed.)
I believe that you have described the split as amicable...
there was even a sort of breakup party...and at least three of the companies were located near each other for a time on a former military base.
Of the four, Chaosium is still publishing both Call of Cthulhu and what is left of the Stormbringer line from San Francisco. The main people at Chaosium appear to be Dustin Wright, Lynn Willis and Charlie Krank.
Peter Corless is still publishing Pendragon titles for Green Knight...although the Pendragon line has been sold to Arthaus (White Wolf)...and Green Knight is also located in San Francisco.
Issaries is still distributing HeroQuest and Glorantha materials out of the Berkeley area.
But Eric Rowe's Wizard's Attic has gone under quite recently...within the last year or so. The collapse of Wizard's Attic stranded at least one Stormbringer project...the Corum and Hawkmoon titles published by Darcsyde.
How are my facts so far?
Was the split really amicable?
Was Issaries located for a time very near to the other two businesses?
Did anyone from Chaosium go with you to Issaries, or did you become a staff of one?
In the Bay Area, nothing is really too far from anything else.