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Announcing Chaosium’s First Organized Play Campaign for Call of Cthulhu!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Feb 2016
A Time to Harvest is a campaign unfolding over six months, which will be offered free to all members of The Cult of Chaos, Chaosium's Game Master and Organized Play Program.“It’s a tightly focused campaign, set in Lovecraft Country, which is inspired by and builds on H. P. Lovecraft's tales", s
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Chaosium joins Free RPG Day 2016 with a new Call of Cthulhu scenario by Sandy Petersen!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 20th Feb 2016
Chaosium is pleased to be participating in Free RPG Day this year! This is the special day where Friendly Local Game Stores all over the world have the opportunity to offer their customers free product donated to them by game publishers.To help celebrate this special day's 10th anniversary (Sat
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Designing the New RuneQuest - Part 3
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Feb 2016
By Jeff RichardSo let's wade into some controversial waters, and talk about the decision to base the new RuneQuest on RQ2 and not RQ6. Initially, we had imagined that the new RQ would be a streamlined RQ6. But now, the final product is being built up from RQ2. So what happened?Three main things: Run
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Designing the New RuneQuest - Part 2
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Feb 2016
By Jeff RichardAs we started to develop the design goals of the new RuneQuest, Ken Rolston, Chris Klug, and I had a discussion about "what are the key features of RQ"? Here are some of the conclusions (in no particular order):Percentage Skills Character SheetRuneQuest is Awesome and Elegant bec
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Designing the New RuneQuest - Part 1
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Feb 2016
We'll be launching the new Chaosium edition of RuneQuest at Gen Con this year. As that eagerly anticipated date approaches, Jeff Richard, creative director at Chaosium and lead designer of the RuneQuest project, is penning a series of designer notes to discuss the creative process - over to you Jeff
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Steve Perrin joins design team for new Chaosium edition of RuneQuest
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Feb 2016
In the spirit of bringing the band back together, Chaosium is delighted to announce that Steve Perrin is joining the design team for Chaosium’s new edition of RuneQuest. "We knew that Steve Perrin’s place at the table, as both the creator and lead author of the original groundbreaking ‘78 and ‘79 ed
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"I Bought - We Won" - RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter a resounding success
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Dec 2015
The RQ Classic Kickstarter is over and we thank the 2176 backers for joining us on an epic journey! We have achieved so much these last 24 days. We hoped for 1000 backers, were amazed when we passed 1500, and stunned to have over 2000. That's almost one backer for every page of Classic RuneQuest we
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Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition comes to DriveThruRPG
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th Dec 2015
For your downloading pleasure, a range of Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition titles are now available at DriveThruRPG!NB The version on DTRPG is the same one we let the CoC 7 Kickstarter backers download some weeks back. It is not available as POD on DTRPG, just PDF.Rest assured, the KS backers w
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