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Out of the Suitcase #52: Looking at Games Workshop's Mailing Club Newsletters
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Jul 2024
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Many years ago I had the good fortune to purchase a set of the first eight issues of Games Workshop's Mailing Club Newsletters. Suffice it to say that I had never even heard of them before I mov
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Out of the Suitcase #50: Games Workshop's RuneQuest was a cracking good read
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th May 2024
-- The softcover (1989) and hardcover (1987) basic RuneQuest rulebook -- Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I recently read a post asking about Games Workshop RuneQuest 3rd Edition's use of color art. The post featured
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Out of the Suitcase #49: From the Archives - What Almost Never Was...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd May 2024
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I have a feeling that all four of these books are going to be asked about based on their recent appearance on eBay. Back in 2015 we Kickstarted RuneQuest Classic, which ended up raising ove
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Out of the Suitcase #48: 'Good old Burly Bob' - a basic history of Basic Role-Playing
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Jan 2024
-- "Good old Burly Bob" - art by William Church --Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.A few weeks ago during a podcast I answered a number of questions about the fabled “lost” manuscript for Chaosium’s Dark Worlds project (the ill-star
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Out of the Suitcase #47: Another Martian Metals Mystery...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 16th Nov 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Last week I posted about discovering a previously unknown to me article by Greg Stafford, 'Broos of Glorantha'. It had featured in a 1986 edition of The Partha Pipeline, a newsletter released by
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Out of the Suitcase #46: The Partha Pipeline still flows
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 12th Nov 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I assembled most of my Ral Partha miniatures collection in the late 1990s. Between eBay and the wonderful Leisure Games store in North London (Finchley) I purchased them all just after the Ral Partha
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Out of the Suitcase #45: RuneQuest Advertising in (The) General...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Oct 2023
The above RQ3 advert is from The General Vol. 25, No. 2, page 5 (1989).Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.A few days ago I was asked about the Avalon Hill staff that worked on RuneQuest 3rd Edition (RQ3) products. From 1984 through 19
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Out of the Suitcase #44: "Kay-OH-see-um" or "Kay-OS-ee-um"?
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Sep 2023
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
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