Ian Marsh (writer)
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Ian Marsh (born 2 October 1960 in Canterbury, Kent, England) is a British writer and editor.
Career
Ian Marsh graduated in 1983 from the University of Surrey, Guildford, with an honours degree in Materials Technology (also called Materials science).[citation needed]
Along with school friends Mike Lewis and Marc Gascoigne, he wrote and edited DragonLords role-playing fanzine from 1980 to 1984.[citation needed]
In 1983 he joined the staff of Games Workshop, Sunbeam Road, London. He became editorial assistant on Games Workshop's role-playing publication White Dwarf in January 1984, progressing to assistant editor and finally editor.[1] Marsh succeeded Ian Livingstone as White Dwarf's editor, but only lasted four issues; after it was confirmed that White Dwarf was moving to Nottingham with the rest of Games Workshop, Marsh opted not to move with the magazine.[2] In White Dwarf #77, Marsh's last issue as editor, the contents page included an acrostic regarding the company's new Managing Director, Bryan Ansell, which read "Sod Off Bryan Ansell".[2]
When Games Workshop relocated to Nottingham in 1986 he left the company, preferring to remain in London.[citation needed]
In 1989, he approached Peter Darvill-Evans at Virgin Books about writing a new Doctor Who role-playing game, Time Lord,[3] following the expiration of the licence held by FASA. 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.[4][5]
He moved to Freshwater, Isle of Wight, in 1999 and established wargaming figures distributor Fighting 15s.[citation needed] He and Lewis jointly run wargames rules publisher Oozlum Games,[6] which published Marsh’s Napoleonic wargames rules Huzzah! free on the internet in 2003. Oozlum Games published Martian Empires,[7] Lewis's Victorian science fiction wargames rules in 2007; the rules, influenced by Huzzah!, were edited and designed by Marsh.[8]
References
- ^ White Dwarf 51 to White Dwarf 77, magazine's editorial staff list
- ^ a b Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ Doctor Who - Time Lord (1991) (ISBN 0-426-20362-3) (a role-playing game with Peter Darvill-Evans)
- ^ Torson online
- ^ Precis Intermedia Games
- ^ Oozlum Games
- ^ Martian Empires: Wargames Rules for the Wars between Mars and Earth, published 2007, ISBN 978-0-9555686-0-2
- ^ Credits listing, Martian Empires
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