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Journey to Jonstown #13 - Nick Brooke's ongoing index of the Jonstown Compendium is a helpful guide for Glorantha fans
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 31st Aug 2020
Jonstown Compendium creator Nick Brooke has put together an incredibly helpful guide to the growing list of titles in our community content program for RuneQuest and Glorantha on DriveThruRPG. His Jonstown Compendium Scenarios & Sourcebooks index has already expanded from 5 to 25
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A virtual convention for independent Call of Cthulhu creators - Miskatonic Repository Con (Oct 17-18)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Aug 2020
Miskatonic Repository Con is a two-day virtual convention, organised by fans, celebrating the Miskatonic Repository, Chaosium's community content platform for Call of Cthulhu on DriveThruRPG.With Miskatonic Repository creators hailing from all parts of the world, the Convention is schedule
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PAX Online: Chaosium's game event listings are live!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Aug 2020
Our gaming event listings for PAX Online are live! From Thursday Sept 17th to Sunday Sept 20th, Chaosium is offering over 100 gaming events, plus another nine gaming events by our friends by our friends TYPE 40. All free! Our games include Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest: Roleplaying
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Play Harlem Unbound on the Roll20 virtual tabletop
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Aug 2020
Play Harlem Unbound 2nd Edition on the Roll20 virtual tabletop!Seven Call of Cthulhu scenario adventures with book assets and information fully integrated for the VTT, including over 100 NPCs and 14 maps with GM layer information and Dynamic Lighting support (requires plus / pro subscription),
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Journey to Jonstown #12 - Sandheart "marks another step forward not only in the development of the Jonstown Compendium but in the entire Gloranthan Renaissance"
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Aug 2020
"Sandheart is an example of how it is getting harder to tell the Compendium and the Chaosium books apart," writes Andrew Logan Montgomery in his review of the newly-expanded Tales of the Sun County Militia: Sandheart Vol 1, available from the Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium's community conte
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Congratulations to 2020 UK Games Expo Award Winners: Berlin the Wicked City and Paladin - Warriors of Charlemagne
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Aug 2020
Chaosium congratulates the creative teams behind our 2020 UK Games Expo Award winners, announced at UK Games Expo's #virtuallyexpo online event yesterday.BERLIN THE WICKED CITYBEST ROLE-PLAYING EXPANSION - Judge's AwardBEST ROLE-PLAYING EXPANSION - People's Choice AwardCongratulations to D
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"The Velvet Underground of RPGs" Advanced Designers & Dragons maps out Chaosium's interactions with the RPG industry over the decades...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Aug 2020
RPG Historian Shannon Appelcline writes:Not every company in the industry works regularly with others. ICE is an example of a company that largely went their own way, focused on their Middle-earth license and their Rolemaster system, while Hero Games regularly teamed up with other companies in the '
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Does Love Forgive?: interview with Lynne Hardy
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 19th Aug 2020
Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu associate line editor Lynne Hardy worked on the English language version of Does Love Forgive?, our new collection of one-to-one scenarios that were originally published in Polish by our friends Black Monk Games. Here we talk to Lynne about the creative proc
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