[1] It partnered with Moon Design Publications to develop the flagship roleplaying game Hero Wars.
[2] Greg Stafford founded Issaries as a company to hold on to the trademarks and copyrights for Glorantha after obtaining them from Chaosium.
To deal with funding difficulties, Chaosium issued a press release in August 1997 to offer shares of Issaries for $100 each, planning to start the company after raising $50,000 so that a new Glorantha-based RPG could be produced.
[3]: 57, 60 Stafford approached Robin Laws to design the new game, which became known as Hero Wars, and was the first release published by Issaries in 2000.
[3]: 64 Stafford moved to Mexico in 2004, at which point Issaries stopped publishing RPGs, and when he came back to the US in 2005 he used Issaries to license the Glorantha rights to other companies such as Mongoose Publishing and Moon Design Publications.