ended up making those shirts which read 'Hero Wars: The Initiation'. A Hero Wars logo of some sort was needed, so I laid out the words in a simple font without paying much attention to it [...] When I laid the logo out for the t-shirt, I printed it in bright orange, figuring it would be very visible against the black shirt. [...] I never imagined that I was designing the logo that would be used, down to the bright orange color, on the Hero Wars books for years to come.". Hero Wars became the first fully professional product released by Issaries, published as a novel-sized trade paperback. Eric Rowe of Wizard's Attic believed that Hero Wars would sell better in book stores if the line was published this way, so Issaries decided to use the format. However, Hero Wars never penetrated the mass market and the decision to publish as trade paperbacks resulted in a smaller format which constrained layout and kept the books looking very simplistic, and they also did not fit in well with most game store displays. Issaries published about a half-dozen Hero Wars books from 2000 to 2002. Most of the books – including Thunder Rebels (2000), Storm Tribe (2001), Barbarian Adventures (2001) and Orlanth is Dead! (2002) – focused on the Sartarites. In 2003, when Issaries sold out of the core book, they decided to revise the Hero Wars rules in a new edition. The rulebook was reformatted at a more standard size, and, as the Milton Bradley trademark had lapsed, Stafford was able to publish the second edition of the game under the name he had originally wanted, HeroQuest. A second edition of HeroQuest revised by original designer Laws, was published in 2009 under license by Moon Design Publications, as a mostly setting-free version. In 2013, Issaries sold the HeroQuest trademark to Moon Design, who in 2015 published HeroQuest Glorantha, integrating the game world more fully. The following year Moon Design became a controlling interest in, Chaosium, who subsequently published two Glorantha based HeroQuest supplements in 2016 and 2017. 2020 marked big changes with the release of a free SRD of HeroQuest, titled QuestWorlds SRD, Moon Design selling the HeroQuest trademark to Hasbro, and rebranding the HeroQuest RPG to QuestWorlds. Other games Two other games licensed the HeroQuest system: References Chaosium games Fantasy role-playing games Robin Laws games Role-playing games introduced in 2009