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Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.While chatting after a team meeting this week someone mentioned how different people on the team pronounced our company name in different ways. I mentioned that many years ago Chaosium ran a somewhat … read more

"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 … read more

Greg Stafford and I started discussing Cults of RuneQuest after the Guide to Glorantha came out in 2014. But work really started on it in 2017. Originally, it began as "Cults of Dragon Pass", but pretty quickly we realized we really needed to bite the bullet and write Greg’s BIG LIST of major c … read more

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 … read more

By David Larkins, Pendragon line editor.A new edition of the Pendragon RPG is coming! 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 forthcoming new edition of the Pendra … read more

Update: out now!https://www.chaosium.com/pendragon-starter-set It is the age of Pendragon!What kind of Knight will you become? A roleplaying game of chivalry, fantasy, & legacy Create Player-Knights of any gender Unique personality mechanics for natural character growthLearn more soon—sign up t … read more

From our Frequently Asked Questions:Q: Did Greg Stafford own the first-ever copy of D&D sold, bought directly from Gary Gygax himself?A: TL/DR - Yes. As Greg himself told it in the now defunct Stafford Codex (retrieved via Wayback Machine):The First Dungeons & Dragon … read more

Apropos of nothing, here's a parable from legendary game designer Greg Stafford: Back in 1966, Greg first started creating Glorantha, future setting of the RuneQuest TTRPG. He began by describing the west coast of the northern continent. Wizards lived there, on the coast...  … read more