Recent content by Ian Sturrock

Press Release Serpent King Games is new home for the Dragon Warriors RPG 1st February 2011, United Kingdom Dragon Warriors, the classic 1980s dark-fantasy RPG recently re-released by Magnum Opus Press, is moving to new British publishing company Serpent King Games. From 1st April the game...

The Solomon Kane stories, like most of Howard's work, are in the public domain -- see here for more info: http://www.robert-e-howard.org/AnotherThought4ws02.html It's likely that someone with enough money to fight it out legally could release an unlicensed RPG based on Solomon Kane, but...

Ah -- I didn't mean to imply that, no. I presume that Mr Martin's motives were to ensure his fans got the most up-to-date news he had as to GoO's current situation. A side effect of that news (intentional or not) is that said fans are likely to be somewhat wary of buying from a company that's...

No, it's more like a distant relative of yours confiding to your fiancee that you're already married to three different women in different towns, none of whom know about each other. It's still up to the fiancee to decide whether to call the cops, or just call the marriage off.

It's pretty setting-specific, unfortunately, but bits of it might be useable in a more generic "Baroque Science Fantasy d20" release I suppose.

I was really looking forward to seeing it come out too -- not just because I'd written it, and was hoping to get paid for my ten weeks of work on it, but also because I genuinely felt it had some top-notch material in it that could have brought the Tekumel setting to a wider audience than it...

As of today, I am claiming copyright on the Anime d20 Monstrous Manual, previously published in an unauthorised version by "Guardians of Order" as the "BESM d20 Monstrous Manual." This was a piece of work which I originally intended for publication by Guardians of Order, but as they failed to...

I do actually look very similar to that other Ian Sturrock bloke, only not quite as yellow. (Er, OK, that was a lie; I'm actually this guy: http://library.bradley.edu/location/map3sturrock.shtml ) (All right, that was a lie too, but you can see some good pics of me here, and are welcome to...

I think the issue isn't as cut-and-dried as people might like to think. The bottom line is that anyone who is in the industry to make a living *has* to work on projects that are commercially viable; if those projects are also fun to work on for that designer or publisher, great, but it's...

Sorry, I don't have any contact with anyone at Black Industries to find out -- my work on the OWB for them was done through Green Ronin.

And likewise the Old World Bestiary would never get a look-in at the ENnies. I mean, who would vote to give an ENnie award to a Best Adversary/Monster Product that doesn't even tell you how many magic items you can loot from the dead monsters?!?

I don't have anything against Dancey personally. I wouldn't trust him (see the parallel rpg.net thread, in which his computer hacking to attempt to take control of a trade organisation is mentioned), but I have in the past found his analysis of the industry to be insightful, and as a writer who...

I love the way that Mr Dancey's complaints about WFRP 2.0 seem to boil down to "it's derivative of D&D 3.0 -- look, all sorts of features that D&D 3.0 borrowed from WFRP 1.0!" but his complaints about the Old World Bestiary seem to boil down to "it's not derivative of D&D 3.0 -- look, no...

Doesn't he hit the jailer in _Rogues in the House_ with a beef bone too?

I'd just like to add my voice in praise of Adrian's writing. I'm not sure he's the best writer Mongoose have (I'm not even sure who they do have working for them right now) but he's the best adventure writer I know. I've been waiting for years for him to get a chance to do a big adventure...