Editing Monte Cook (section)

=== Early years ===
Cook has been a professional game designer since 1988, working primarily on role-playing games.<ref name="wizardsbio">{{cite web|url=http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/Bios/default.aspx?doc=MonteCook|title=Monte Cook|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224010816/http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/Bios/default.aspx?doc=MonteCook|archive-date=February 24, 2009}}</ref> Much of his early work was for [[Iron Crown Enterprises]] as an editor and writer for the ''[[Rolemaster]]'' and ''[[Champions (role-playing game)|Champions]]'' lines.<ref>{{Citation |last=Appelcline |first=Shannon |date=November 21, 2006 |title=A Brief History of Game #8 |publisher= [[RPGnet]]|url=http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory8.phtml |access-date=March 13, 2013}}</ref> Cook was at one point the editor in charge of both the "Campaign Classics" line of books for the ''[[Hero System]]'' and the ''Rolemaster'' line.<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7 }}</ref>{{rp|136}} Cook worked for Iron Crown Enterprises for four years; two as a freelancer and two as a full-time designer.<ref name="Dragon #275">{{cite journal| title = Profiles: Monte Cook| journal = [[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]| issue = #275| pages = 10, 12, 14| publisher = [[Wizards of the Coast]]| location = [[Renton, Washington]]|date=September 2000}}</ref> During this period, Cook wrote the multi-genre setting ''Dark Space'' (1990), which was a blend of fantasy, science-fiction, and horror.<ref name="designers" />{{rp|137}} Cook became the line editor for ''Hero System'', replacing [[Rob Bell (game designer)|Rob Bell]], who left ICE in 1990.<ref name="designers" />{{rp|149}} Cook left ICE in the early 1990s.<ref name="designers" />{{rp|137}}