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Journey to Jonstown #68: RPG Writer Workshop RuneQuest Adventure Collection celebrates new creators for RuneQuest
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd Feb 2024
Out now in print: the RPG Writer Workshop RuneQuest Adventure Collection!
This 124-page softcover book brings together six RuneQuest adventures created by the graduates of the Storytelling Collective's 2022 RPG Writer Workshop's Write Your First Adventure course, with a refreshe
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Call of Cthulhu creation 'William Bailey's Haunted Mansion' wins history award
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd Feb 2024
-- David Waldron receiving the prize at the awards ceremony in Melbourne, Australia --Congratulations to Miskatonic Repository creator David Waldron, whose Call of Cthulhu creation William Bailey's Haunted Mansion is a winner at the 2023 Victorian Community History Awards. T
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"Tentacled but OK" - the late, great Brian Lumley on Call of Cthulhu fans
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Feb 2024
Esteemed horror writer and Mythos creator Brian Lumley, who passed away in early January, was not a player of the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG himself. But he did once have nice things to say about the Call of Cthulhu fans he'd interacted with. This was in the pages of the seminal 1980's fan
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Pendragon 6E releases in April: ‘The hobby is only just catching up to what Greg did 40 years ago’ (Dicebreaker).
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 31st Jan 2024
As exclusively revealed yesterday by Dicebreaker, King Arthur Pendragon, the epic fantasy RPG of questing knights considered by late RuneQuest creator Greg Stafford as his “masterpiece”, returns with its first full new edition in nearly two decades this April.The Player's Handbook rel
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Happy 50th birthday Dungeons and Dragons from Chaosium
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Jan 2024
Happy 50th birthday Dungeons and Dragons from Chaosium! Chaosium's own first TTRPG RuneQuest (1978) was dedicated to D&D creators Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, "who first opened Pandora's Box". Everyone playing, creating and working in tabletop roleplaying games today appreciates that audacious first
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Vale Brian Lumley (1937–2024)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 29th Jan 2024
Today we learned of the sad news of the passing of Brian Lumley (1937–2024). Brian was the recipient of a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association.Coming to the fore with his Cthulhu Mythos fiction in 1971 with The Caller
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Announcing the premiere of Graveyards of Arkham: Wednesday February 7th
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Jan 2024
"Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil, as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave..."Graveyards of Arkham premieres on twitch Wednesday, February 7th 6:30pm PT/9:30pm ET, running weekly for six weeks. With Keeper Mark Meer, and investigators Lucia Versprille, Patrick
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Missed the Call of Cthulhu Humble Bundle? Don't worry, it has been extended by a week!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Jan 2024
Thanks to the incredible response to the Call of Cthulhu campaign, Humble Bundle has extended the offer for one more week!Just $25 gets you over $400 worth of digital Call of Cthulhu books - the starter set, the core rules, and years worth of gaming fun! Jump on board while you can and see
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