Lawrence Whitaker had worked on Chaosium fanzines.
[1]: 430 Whitaker gained experience with the Basic Role-Playing system of RuneQuest while working on the Eternal Champion games from Chaosium in the 1990s.
[1]: 399 Mongoose Publishing hired Whitaker in 2007, where he wrote their fourth RuneQuest setting, Elric of Melniboné (2007).
[1]: 399 Whitaker left Mongoose later in 2010 after four years with the company.
Meanwhile, Whitaker and Nash formed a company, The Design Mechanism, to pick up the RuneQuest license and publish a sixth edition of the game in 2012.