Grey Worlds
Grey Worlds was a fanzine about "Rolemaster" that first appeared in 1989. It was eventually published by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) as a professional-quality magazine. Contents. "Grey Worlds" started life in 1989 as a fanzine focussed on I.C.E.'s "Rolemaster" fantasy role-playing game, although occasional articles about "", "Cyberspace", "Dark Space", and "Space Master" also appeared. I.C.E. eventually took over production and created a professional-looking magazine that covered I.C.E. products, mainly "Middle-earth Role Playing" and "Rolemaster", although articles about "Shadow World" and "Silent Death" also appeared. Publication history. "Grey Worlds" was started as a "Rolemaster  fanzine in 1989 by Ross Henton and Lem Richards. They published it regularly, and by 1992, they had produced 15 issues. Although it began as a primitive-looking zine, the final issues were of increasingly better quality, albeit still stapled and with a black & white cover. At that point I.C.E. took over production, with the plan to produce a regularly-scheduled glossy games periodical. Henton and Richards were retained as the Editor in Chief and Production Manager respectively. The numbering was restarted, and Issue 1, a professionally printed and saddle-stitched magazine, was released in June 1993 featuring a full	Grey Worlds
11042277	-colour cover by Angus McBride and numerous advertisements. However Issue 2 was not released until January 1994, and Issue 3 did not appear until 1995. Production ceased after Issue 3. As games historian Shannon Appelcline noted in his 2014 book Designers & Dragons", "ICE picked ["Grey Worlds"] up, with the intent to publish it at a more professional level, an experiment that failed after just three issues published over two years."