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Designing the New RuneQuest - Part 23
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Mar 2018
Where we are with RQGBy Jeff RichardGreetings Gloranthaphiles! I've been quiet on the social media front for the last few months concerning where we are with the new RuneQuest - that's not because we don't have plenty of great progress to report (we do! - keep reading) but because: we've been r
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Designing the New RuneQuest - Part 22
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Mar 2018
A TALE OF TWO THREE LOGOSBy Jason Durall, RuneQuest line editorOne of the more significant visual
design elements to make for a new game has its choice of a logo. In some cases,
such as for licensed games, these decisions are out of the hands of the
designers and artists making the game. For exam
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Gen Con, Origins and UK Games Expo Event Schedules Have Been Submitted. Join Us This Summer!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Mar 2018
The summer convention season is rapidly approaching and Chaosium is deep into planning for the biggest events of the year. Organized Play is getting a huge upswing and we need GMs to be a part of this!The deadline for Gen Con (Indianapolis IN, Aug 2-5) was March 10th and we have slammed th
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MU Admissions Office is open: sign up and we'll let you know when the Kickstarter launches!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 20th Mar 2018
The Miskatonic University Admissions Office is now open! Our new Lovecraftian board game Miskatonic University - the Restricted Collection launches on Kickstarter in late April. But here's your chance to get on the tenure track right now! - if you'd like to be informed when the Kickstarter
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Get ready to enter the Miskatonic University Restricted Collection, very soon!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 19th Mar 2018
A quick note from Susan, our board games line editor: Exciting news—our next board game is close! Last year, after some 25 years away, Chaosium got back into boardgames. This first foray brought together German board game wizard Reiner Knizia and "the Grand Shaman of Games" himse
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Miskatonic Monday: new titles to check out!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 19th Mar 2018
New at the Miskatonic Repository!Check out these recent community content releases at the Miskatonic Repository:CALL OF CTHULHU SCENARIOSA Light in Darkness - Matthew Puccio ($4.99)"A dark, survival horror scenario for Call of Cthulhu, set in the Pacific Theatre during World War II."The Man Dow
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Unnatural Selections: Recent Chaosium Reviews of Note #2
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th Mar 2018
'Unnatural Selections' is a regular round up of notable reviews of Chaosium titles we think are worth a look...Andrew Logan Montgomery's Otherworlds of Fiction, Magic, and Gaming blog recently reviewed two new Chaosium releases with considerable depth, insight and perspicacity (in his
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Sandy Petersen has five new ways to kill you...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 16th Mar 2018
Petersen's Abominations, now out in full-color hardback, is Chaosium's newest collection of Call of Cthulhu adventures.Hatched from the twisted imagination of the legendary Call of Cthulhu creator Sandy Petersen himself, they began life as scenarios he's ran at conventions - "when I run a game
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