Hogshead Publishing

In October 1994, James Wallis founded Hogshead Publishing,{{Cite book |first=Shannon |last=Appelcline |title=Designers & Dragons |publisher=Mongoose Publishing |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|305}} a company which specialised in role-playing and storytelling games.{{Cite journal |last=Sugarbaker |first=Allan |year=2002 |title=Interviews: James Wallis |url=http://www.ogrecave.com/interviews/jameswallis2.shtml |website=OgreCave.com |accessdate=9 August 2009}} Wallis based the company in the UK, and got a license from Phil Gallagher at Games Workshop to publish books for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.{{rp|305}} Wallis and Andrew Rilstone changed the name of the magazine Inter*action to Interactive Fantasy due to trademark concerns beginning with its second issue, which was also Hogshead's first publication; the magazine only lasted two more issues after that.{{rp|305}} Warhammer sold well, but Hogshead had problems with their distributor, and Wallis had to let go of all the company's staff.{{rp|305}} By the end of 1997, cashflow had improved so Wallis moved the company to an office, and hired Matthew Pook.{{rp|306}} Phil Masters contributed adventures to Hogshead Publishing's licensed version of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in the mid-1990s.{{rp|305}} Shadows Over Bögenhafen (1995) was the first in a series reissuing GW's well-respected The Enemy Within Campaign; Hogshead's updated Enemy Within campaign (1995-1999) was very well received.{{rp|305}}

Wallis was able to publish his game The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen in 1998, the first of what would later be called the company's "New Style" RPGs.{{rp|306}} John Scott Tynes designed Puppetland (1999), the next New Style game.{{rp|306}} Violence (1999), by Greg Costikyan (aka Designer X), was, according to Shannon Appelcline, "probably the least well-loved of the New Style games".{{rp|306}} Robin Laws designed Pantheon and Other Roleplaying Games (2000) as one of the company's "New Style" RPGs.{{rp|306}} De Profundis (2001), by Michael Oracz, was the last of the New Style role-playing games published by Hogshead Publishing.{{rp|306}} In 2002 Hogshead Publishing printed the second edition of Nobilis.{{Cite book |last=Borgstrom |first=R. Sean |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85257420 |title=Nobilis : the game of sovereign powers |date=2002 |publisher=Nobilis |isbn=1-899749-30-6 |location=London |oclc=85257420}}

Hogshead Publishing published Realms of Sorcery (2001), which finally updated the rushed magic system in the original Warhammer rulebook.{{rp|305}} Mike Mearls wrote the last product from Hogshead Publishing, a Warhammer adventure titled Fear the Worst (2002) that Hogshead released for free on the internet.{{rp|307}} On 26 November 2002, Wallis announced that he was ending Hogshead Publishing, and Mark Ricketts bought the company name in February 2003.{{rp|307}} In early 2003, after Wallis closed down Hogshead Publishing, the rights to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay reverted to Games Workshop.{{rp|51}} SLA Industries returned to Dave Allsop.{{rp|427}} Hogshead returned the rights of the New Style games to their creators.{{Cite web |last=Sugarbaker, Allan |year=2002 |title=Interviews: James Wallis |url=http://www.ogrecave.com/interviews/jameswallis2.shtml |website=OgreCave.com |format=http |accessdate=January 12, 2006}}

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