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Graduate with Honors - Miskatonic University board game Kickstarter ends soon!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th May 2018
Graduate with honors!—Chaosium's new Lovecraftian board game ends on Kickstarter soon (May 8th). A great new game by a world famous designer at a very reasonable price - just $25 gets you the full game!From the creators of Call of Cthulhu and German board game design legend Reiner Knizia. Check
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Unnatural Selections: Recent Chaosium Reviews of Note #4
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd May 2018
Something a bit different today: reviews of reviewers, on YouTube! The fantasy news and reviews website Fantasy-Faction has recently posted an excellent overview of RPG and board game reviewers on YouTube. Three great channels that regularly—if not almost exclusively—talk about C
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Another Stretch Goal passed, a new Stretch Goal added in our Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection Kickstarter!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd May 2018
Another Stretch Goal passed, a new Stretch Goal added in our Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection Kickstarter! This one is direct from Reiner Knizia's home base and design studio in Germany: a new eighth Defense Card for the game. We already have a "Flee" card in our MU game; this o
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Miskatonic University Kickstarter backers get Sneak Peek at Victor Leza's Masks of Nyarlathotep Art
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st May 2018
In our latest Kickstarter update for our Miskatonic University board game, backers are getting a sneak peek at some of Victor Leza's amazing new art for the forthcoming Masks of Nyarlathotep!For the full image of the above, and more of Victor's awesome Masks art check out the link!https://
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What's Happening with RQG #3: Layout is done, preorders coming soon!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Apr 2018
Jeff and Jason have passed on some exciting news: layout and proofreading of RQG is all-but-done ("we're just doing some final finishing up and tweaks"). The book is truly both a thing of beauty, and also a very easy-to-use reference when playing the game.Stay tuned for an announcement soon about pr
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Miskatonic University Kickstarter: an MU short story by Molly Tanzer, just for backers
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Apr 2018
Chaosium was born out of fiction—company founder Greg Stafford discovered his mythic world of Glorantha through his writings. Only a few years later, Sandy Petersen turned H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous story of the Cthulhu Mythos into our most award winning RPG game, Call of Cthulhu. Since 1992, Chao
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One Last (Final!) Chance to Catch the Train!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 23rd Apr 2018
We thought we had sold out of HORROR ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, our luxury campaign for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition, but recent stocktaking at our UK and USA warehouses has uncovered some additional copies!We have a very limited number of these boxed sets available, and once sold, they ar
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"Wa-ha!", or "Iä Iä!"?
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 23rd Apr 2018
Our first Reiner Knizia game Khan of Khans will be out in Japanese translation on May 1st, thanks to our friends Arclight Games! And our second Reiner Knizia game MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY is live on Kickstarter now.We don't know whether we should be saying "Wa-ha!", or "Iä Iä!"
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