Meanwhile, Laws was active throughout the 1990s as a free-lance writer for games including "GURPS", "Underground", "Talislanta", "Earthdawn", and "", and later for supplements to the third edition of "Dungeons & Dragons". In 1998, Greg Stafford approached Laws to create a new game based on his world of Glorantha, which became known as "Hero Wars", published in 2000 as the first fully professional product for Issaries, and later expanded and re-published in 2003 as "HeroQuest". A second edition was published in 2009; Laws was then able to provide additional scaffolding for players to construct setting-appropriate narratives with the rules provided. At the same time, Laws was engaged in some more experimental RPG design. Hogshead Publishing published his "Pantheon and Other Roleplaying Games" (2000) as one of the company's "New Style" RPGs., while Atlas Games contracted Laws to write the "Rune" (2001) role-playing game, based on the computer game "Rune". Laws determined that for "Rune", "the game would need to have a big point of difference to distinguish it from the many other fantasy games available"; in this case, the game would allow players to swap roles with the Game Master (GM): "You can win! And when you're not the GM, it's not boring because the GM can win!"