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Lords of the Middle Sea Update: fiery destruction and the state of things
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd Sep 2022
Lords of the Middle Sea: The Roleplaying Game is in development. Based on Lynn Willis's 1978 futuristic proto-Steampunk board game, set in the post-apocalyptic ruins of a flooded North America, the tabletop RPG utilizes a streamlined version of the Basic Roleplaying system.Jason Durall, creative lea
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Out of the Suitcase #33: Collecting and dealing with personal demons...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Sep 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.One of the joys and curses of being a completist collector means you seek out every printing, edition, and variant of each item. The most recent occurrence of this for me relates to the Citadel
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Pendragon Design Journal #12: Writing the Starter Set, Part Two
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 31st Aug 2022
By David Larkins, Pendragon line editor.A new edition of the Pendragon RPG is coming! The intention of this series of design journals by Pendragon line editor David Larkins is to trace the path of development, starting in the early 1980s and culminating with the forthcoming new edition of the Pendra
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Chaosium Interviews: What is Evil in TTRPGs?
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Aug 2022
In this Chaosium Interview, creative director Jeff Richard talks to James Coquillat about the concept of evil in TTRPGs. Who are your enemies? Is it okay to slay them? How can you tell the best stories by playing with morality and evil?Experience the complex moral gameplay of Glorantha for your
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Miskatonic Monday #59: The Bloated Saint and other new Cthulhu Dark Ages community content releases
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 29th Aug 2022
Our supplement Cthulhu Dark Ages Third Edition is set in the medieval world of Anglo-Saxon England. It comes with three scenarios – The Hunt, The Doom That Came to Wessex, and Eseweald. And when you've played through those, the Miskatonic Repository can keep your Call of Cthulhu investigat
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Journey to Jonstown #44: Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks - and our 250th title!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Aug 2022
The Jonstown Compendium at DriveThruRPG is the thriving online community for fans of Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha, setting of the RuneQuest TTRPG, to sell and share their own creations. Today we mark the 250th title released in the Jonstown Compendium with a series of titles abo
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Chaosium Demos of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and 7th Sea – Glass Cannon Network at Gen Con 2022
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Aug 2022
Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, 7th Sea: the Glass Cannon Network played demo games of them all at Gen Con, one after the other, in the space of one hour 45 minutes!In a virtuoso GMing performance, Chaosium's Brian Holland introduces these TTRPGs to Joe O'Brien, Paula Deeming, Matthew Capodica
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Chaosium Interviews: Downtime in TTRPGs, with David Larkins
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Aug 2022
In this Chaosium Interview with James Coquillat, Pendragon line editor David Larkins talks about downtime in both the Pendragon RPG, and in TTRPGs more broadly.
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