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Chaosium Interviews: Improvising a Scenario, with Jeff Richard
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Oct 2023
Your players arrive in one hour. What do you need to know to run a RuneQuest scenario?Chaosium's Jeff Richard shares some advice on how to quickly build a beginner RuneQuest scenario. He's talking to James Coquillat for our 'Chaosium Interviews' series on YouTube.
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Return to the haunted city – Call of Cthulhu: Arkham is coming worldwide in hardcover and PDF in 2024
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th Oct 2023
Return to the haunted city. Call of Cthulhu: Arkham is coming worldwide in hardcover and PDF in 2024. We will be sharing much more in the coming months.As first revealed by Keeper Kris Straub to the massive PAX AUS Main Theatre audience for Acquisitions Inc Play Call of Cthulhu!
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Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine is out now in hardback
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Oct 2023
264 pages, full color hardcover – $49.99*Also available in special leatherette version (a Chaosium.com exclusive) – $90.00**price includes PDF when purchased direct from Chaosium.com and Friendly Local Game Stores that are part of the Bits & Mortar initiative.Create. Explore. Play. Ba
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RuneQuest community creators win at the 2023 Australian Role-Playing Industry Awards
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 5th Oct 2023
Congratulations to community creators Neil Gibson and Drew Baker, whose Jonstown Compendium RuneQuest title Highways and Byways - A Wayfarer's Companion won Best Cartography at this year's Australian Role-Playing Industry (ARPIA) Awards! Neil is shown here with their award. And c
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Chaosium is coming to PAX AUS this weekend, with special guest community ambassador Nick Brooke
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Oct 2023
We're excited to be coming to PAX AUS this weekend, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia. PAX AUS is the biggest popular culture and gaming show taking place on this half of the planet, and we've got a whole raft exciting things to offer to Chaosium fans old and
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Chaosium will be at Essen demoing Horror on the Orient Express The Board Game
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd Oct 2023
Chaosium is coming to Speil Essen, October 5th-8th – and we'll be demoing Horror on the Orient Express The Board Game!The co-designers themselves Adam Kwapiński and Michał Gołąb Gołębiowski will be there to show off the latest prototype, answer your questions, and demo gameplay of this eag
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Miskatonic Monday #82: William Bailey's Haunted Mansion features a real life book made of human skin
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd Oct 2023
Newly-released on the Miskatonic Repository, our platform for independent Call of Cthulhu creators at DriveThruRPG, William Bailey's Haunted Mansion is a masterclass of showing how you can deftly concoct a (fictional) Cthulhu Mythos tale out of real historical happenings, bringing in known
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Kuba Polkowski is now lead producer for Chaosium's new board games division; Susan O'Brien is line editor for fiction
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Oct 2023
We formally welcome these members of the Chaosium team to their new roles!Kuba Polkowski, formerly working as an art director for Chaosium, is now lead producer for our new board games division which is led by Chaosium Vice President Daria Pilarczyk. Kuba’s major focus is the board game ve
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