Matthew Sprange is a

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who has worked primarily on

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Career

Matthew Sprange met with Alex Fennell in a pub in

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in late 2000; Sprange suggested starting a game company, but Fennell instead joined a 3G (third generation) mobile communication company. Over the next few months Sprange put together the rules for a miniatures game but when he decided that it would be too expensive to produce, he instead decided to form the game company

Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties '' Traveller'', ''Judge Dredd'', and ''Parano ...

with Fennell to publish adventures under

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's d20 license. Sprange had very little experience writing adventure scenarios, and since he realized that many other companies were already doing adventures, he decided to publish sourcebooks beginning with ''The Slayer's Guide to Hobgoblins'' (2001), the first in a series of "ecology" books on races of monsters. Thanks to good sales, Sprange started working in Mongoose full-time, joining Fennell. When Sprange heard of

Paradigm Concepts Paradigm Concepts, Inc. is a small-press game publishing company located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They published the award-winning Arcanis campaign setting and managed the Living Arcanis campaign independent of the RPGA. Previously Arc ...

's announcement of "The Essential Elf" (which was eventually published as ''Eldest Sons: The Essential Guide to Elves'' in 2003), he immediately added ''The Quintessential Elf'' (2002) to Mongoose's schedule, and beat Paradigm Concepts to print and protect the company's ''Quintessential'' line. Sprange designed Mongoose's new edition of ''

RuneQuest ''RuneQuest'' (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson (game designer), Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of ...

'', which was published in 2006. After acquiring the ''Doctor Who'' license,

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and

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needed investment by the end of 2008, and went to Sprange for help, who introduced them to the Rebellion Group that Mongoose was now part of. Sprange designed the ''

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'' (2010), based on the '' LoneWolf'' gamebook systems.

References

External links

Matthew Sprange :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive
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