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Get your badge for Chaosium Con Australia 2025 - June 27-29
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th Jan 2025
Get your badge for Chaosium Con Australia 2025 - June 27-29! The inaugural Chaosium Con Australia in 2024 was by all accounts a great success with over 125 events, local and international guests of honour, and very convivial atmosphere. We plan to replicate that success in 2025 and look forward
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Announcing the International Guests of Honour for Chaosium Con Australia 2025
Posted by Michael O’Brien on 12th Nov 2024
We're pleased to announce the International Guests of Honour for Chaosium Con Australia 2025, taking place in Melbourne, Australia next June!Andrew Leman and Sean Branney (Los Angeles, USA) are the two principals of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. Accomplished film makers, directors and
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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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Chaosium will be at GenghisCon in February (Aurora CO, 15-18 Feb 2024)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 29th Dec 2023
Chaosium's Jeff Richard (L) and David Larkins (R) are special guests at Genghis Con, Colorado’s Premier Tabletop Gaming Convention, in February (15th-18th). Taking place at the Hyatt Regency Aurora-Denver Conference in Aurora, CO, this event promises to be "a celebratio
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Chaosium Interviews: When to Write Niche, with David Larkins
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 17th Sep 2023
How narrow is too narrow for the focus of a story? Pendragon line editor David Larkins talks about writing for a fixed niche, be it the Knights of King Arthur or the eldritch horrors lurking in 1920s Berlin.
David is talking to James Coquillat as part of our Chaosium Inter
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Chaosium Interviews: Pendragon's novel mechanics, with David Larkins
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 16th Aug 2023
What novel TTRPG mechanics are needed for chivalrous play in the Age of Pendragon? David Larkins, line editor of the Pendragon TTRPG, discusses the unique mechanics that help the game transpose you to the age of knights and tournies. He's talking to James Coquillat for our Chaosium In
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Chaosium Interviews: Pendragon Release Q&A with David Larkins
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 14th Jul 2023
How do you celebrate milestones in true Pendragon style? Line editor David Larkins reflects and answers questions in an interview filmed on the release day of the new Pendragon Starter Set. Part of our Chaosium Interviews series with James Coquillat.
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Pendragon Design Journal #15: Writing the Starter Set, Part Four - May your knight's quest begin!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Jul 2023
By David Larkins, Pendragon line editor.A new edition of the Pendragon RPG is coming NOW OUT IN RELEASE! The intention of this series of design journals by Pendragon line editor David Larkins is to trace the path of development, starting in the early 1980s and culminating with the forthcom
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