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Unnatural Selections: Recent Chaosium Reviews of Note #3
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Mar 2018
Petersen's Abominations is now out in hardback! This is a collection of five nightmarish modern-day scenarios by the creator of Call of Cthulhu himself. Here's the Reckoning of the Dead blog's review (of the PDF):"The scenarios in
Petersen’s Abominations are every bit as dangerous as thos
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MU Faculty Note: the player mats!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Mar 2018
Another Faculty Note from Susan, board games line editor: You might have seen on social media that we playtested and demoed a prototype of our forthcoming board game Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection at various conventions last year. The finished version looks quite dif
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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 20th 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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Sandy Petersen has five new ways to kill you...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th 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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Miskatonic Monday: the madness extends to other languages
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 12th Mar 2018
When we launched the Miskatonic Repository community content program late last year we stipulated that, for the time being, all content had to be in English. This was just while we found our feet with the program, and had a chance to talk to all the various Call of Cthulhu foreign language lice
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