- Ian Marsh
"For the electronic musician of The Human League and Heaven 17, see
Ian Craig Marsh ".Ian Marsh (born 1960,
Canterbury ,Kent ,England ) is a British writer and editor. He graduated in 1983 from theUniversity of Surrey ,Guildford , with an honours degree in Materials Technology (also calledMaterials science ).Along with school friends Mike Lewis and
Marc Gascoigne , he wrote and edited DragonLords role-playingfanzine from 1980 to 1984.In 1983 he joined the staff of
Games Workshop , Sunbeam Road, London. He became editorial assistant on Games Workshop’s role-playing publicationWhite Dwarf (magazine) in January 1984, progressing to assistant editor and finally editor. [White Dwarf 51 to White Dwarf 77, magazine's editorial staff list] [Wikipedia:White Dwarf (magazine) ]When Games Workshop relocated to Nottingham in 1986 he left the company, preferring to remain in London.
In 1989, he approached
Peter Darvill-Evans atVirgin Books about writing a newDoctor Who role-playing game, Time Lord [Doctor Who - Time Lord (1991) (ISBN 0-426-20362-3) (a role-playing game with Peter Darvill-Evans)] , following the expiration of the licence held byFASA .Time Lord (role-playing game) materialised in 1991 as a paperback distributed through the book trade. In 1996, Marsh regained the rights to Time Lord and republished it free on the internet. [Torson online [http://www.torsononline.com/hobbies/timelord/operatingsystems.htm] ] [Precis Intermedia Games [http://www.pigames.net/store/product_info.php?products_id=50] ]He moved to
Freshwater, Isle of Wight , in 1999 and establishedwargaming figures distributor Fighting 15s. He and Lewis jointly run wargames rules publisher Oozlum Games [Oozlum Games [http://www.oozlumgames.co.uk/] ] , which published Marsh’s Napoleonic wargames rules Huzzah! free on the internet in 2003. Oozlum Games published Martian Empires [Martian Empires: Wargames Rules for the Wars between Mars and Earth, published 2007, ISBN 978-0-9555686-0-2] , Lewis's Victorian science fiction wargames rules in 2007; the rules, influenced by Huzzah!, were edited and designed by Marsh [Credits listing, Martian Empires] .References
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