Greg Stafford

Greg Stafford (born in 1948) is a Auteur of roleplays, a Chaman and a writer, creator of the world of Glorantha. The originality of Stafford compared to the great authors of Heroic fantasy as J.R.R. Tolkien is that it also uses in its construction of universe the Anthropologie and the compared Mythologie.

It created (“discovered”) in the beginning the world of Glorantha to tell fantastic accounts there as of 1966. It formed its company Chaosium in 1974 to publish a Wargame in this universe, White Bear and Red Moon (which had a new edition under the title Dragon Not , or in French the War of the Heroes ) then NOMAD Gods in 1977 (translated into French by Oriflam).

In 1978, it publishes with Steve Perrin the Roleplay RuneQuest , which uses Glorantha as universe and whose system BASIC Role-Playing was the base of the other plays of this company.

In 1984, after the 3rd edition of RuneQuest , Stafford published its favorite work Pendragon , of which all the system is conceived so that the player adopts the point of view of a knight of the myth arthurien or Matière of Brittany. The play brought the idea that Passions of the characters could be more important than its characteristics. It made also a simpler version with Prince Valiant , which used only coins in the place of Des.

It also contributed (with Greg Costikyan and Sandy Petersen) to the humorous roleplay Ghostbusters .

It published several works being held in Glorantha but always written like documents coming from this universe. Thus, King off Sartar is not written like a fantastic novel but like the philological edition or a contradictory compilation of an epopee and various chronicles.

It since split up its companies, Chaosium guard the rights of Call off Cthulhu and it directs since 1998 another small company of which he is almost the only employee Issaries Inc. to diffuse HeroQuest , the new handset which succeeds RuneQuest on Glorantha.

External bonds

Discussion with Greg Stafford for '' Casus Belli ''

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