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Miskatonic Monday: three new pay-what-you-want titles
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Apr 2018
Pay What You Want is one of the pricing options creators can choose for their products on the Miskatonic Repository. As the name suggests, as a purchaser, you get to choose what you want to pay for the item (creators can suggest a recommended price, but you can also pay more than or that o
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Chaosium at GameStorm with this weekend - Portland OR
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Apr 2018
This weekend Chaosium will be at GameStorm, "the premier Portland area game convention".Todd, our director of organised play, will be there from Friday to Sunday, with sessions of Call of Cthulhu in the organized play area. There will also be previews of the new RuneQuest run througho
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Chaosium at C2E2 - Chicago this weekend
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Apr 2018
Chaosium will be at C2E2 Comic & Entertainment Expo in Chicago this weekend, Friday 6th - Sunday 8th April. We'll have a wide selection of Chaosium releases on sale, including H.P Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers. We'll also be selling the print version
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Roll and Die: Cthulhu is already the Bacon of Gaming, now Chaosium is gaming the bacon!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Apr 2018
Coming soon—Cthulhu is already the Bacon of Gaming, now Chaosium is gaming the bacon!We're proud to announce ROLL and DIE - a new line of Call of Cthulhu bacon-flavoured dice snacks. Roll and Diebecause that's what Cthulhu players do bestat the gaming table! "While these taste like si
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Call of Cthulhu coming to Syrinscape
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 29th Mar 2018
Syrinscape
and Chaosium Inc. Announce Partnership to Create Official Sounds for Legendary
Game of Mystery and HorrorSyrinscape, the award-winning app that creates
movie-like, immersive sound for tabletop games and Chaosium Inc., acclaimed
publisher of award-winning books, roleplaying games,
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Unnatural Selections: Recent Chaosium Reviews of Note #3
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Mar 2018
Petersen's Abominations is now out in hardback! This is a collection of five nightmarish modern-day scenarios by the creator of Call of Cthulhu himself. Here's the Reckoning of the Dead blog's review (of the PDF):"The scenarios in
Petersen’s Abominations are every bit as dangerous as thos
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EN World previews 13th Age Glorantha
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Mar 2018
EN WORLD previews 13TH AGE GLORANTHA, "a 400+ page love letter to Greg Stafford’s World of Glorantha, one of the most extensively developed and renowned fantasy settings of all time" by Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet, the lead designers of the 3rd and 4th editions of D&D.13G is available now in PDF
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MU Faculty Note: the player mats!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Mar 2018
Another Faculty Note from Susan, board games line editor: You might have seen on social media that we playtested and demoed a prototype of our forthcoming board game Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection at various conventions last year. The finished version looks quite dif
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