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Mike Mason and Paul Fricker are guests at the Innsmouth Literary Festival, Bedford UK - Sept 30
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 14th Sep 2023
Call of Cthulhu 7th edition co-authors Mike Mason and Paul Fricker are guests at the Innsmouth Literary Festival, taking place at the King's House Conference Centre in Bedford, UK on September 30th. This one day event celebrates the centenary of Weird Tales magazine and weird and spec
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Chaosium coming to two conventions in Sydney, Australia - OzComicCon (Sept 23-24) and SXSW (Oct 21-22)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Sep 2023
Hope to see you at these two coming conventions in Sydney, Australia! We'll be running demo games at both events, and at SXSW we'll be taking part in actual play and panels – plus Chaosium releases will be available from our friends at Aetherworks. OzComicCon SydneySeptember 23-24, Sydney Showg
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Chaosium Interviews: Unkillable Monsters, with Mike Mason
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 12th Sep 2023
What is the most powerful Call of Cthulhu creature you’ve defeated? In this Chaosium Interview, Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason talks about how including unkillable enemies in your games can change their dynamic. Mike is talking to James Coquillat.Catch all the interviews in t
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Miskatonic Monday #81 - Player Signups are now open for Miskatonic Repository Con (Oct 13-15)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 12th Sep 2023
The Miskatonic Repository Convention is an annual three-day virtual convention celebrating the Miskatonic Repository, Chaosium’s online collection of user-made content for the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG at DriveThruRPG. All content is Call of Cthulhu 7e, and is either currently published, or being p
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'Designing Role-playing Games': Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason to talk at the National Library of Scotland, Nov 7th
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Sep 2023
Designing Role-playing GamesWriter and game designer Mike Mason discusses the process of writing for role-playing games.National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW, United Kingdom7 November, 5:30PM-7:00PMIn addition to talking about conceiving, writing, and revising ro
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Chaosium Interviews: Critiquing RPGs
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Sep 2023
What are the differences between critical analysis of movies versus TTRPGs? Creative director Jeff Richard talks to James Coquillat about media criticism and how movies or music criticism varies from TTRPGs!.Part of our Chaosium Interviews series on YouTube.
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Journey to Jonstown #62: Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela is a feast for your eyes
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Sep 2023
"The lines have been cast off, the crew have pushed away from the quay with fending poles, and the sweeps are deployed until we catch the breeze...." Martin Helsdon's magnificent and magisterial Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela has just been released on the Jonstown Compendium.Winner o
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The Shadow Over Providence: now enhanced for VTT on Roll20!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th Sep 2023
The Shadow Over Providence is a Call of Cthulhu scenario written by Jon Hook of the Miskatonic University Podcast/Modern Mythos Podcast. It was developed and first published by Chaosium to celebrate NecronomiCon 2019, and now it has been expanded for VTT play on Roll20!Enhanced for VTTThis product i
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