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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

Gamehole Con takes place in Madison WI on October 19-22, and Chaosium's Rick Meints, Jeff Richard and Mike Mason are all special guests. You can catch Rick, Jeff and Mike running games, participating in panels, and at our booth in the dealer hall. Rick is also honoured to be one of the auc … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.In my previous Out of the Suitcase post, thought I'd written the complete story of that "one off" Glorantha ad from the Best of the Dragon - volume I (1980). However a Chaosium colleague, t … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I enjoy discovering unknown gems in unexpected places. The latest discovery came via a facebook collector's forum colleague, and it qualifies as a "never thought to look there" event. Of all places, … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I used to go to a fair number of model railroad shows with my father back in the mid to late '70s, including the Ann Arbor show in 1978. Alas, I had no clue about the other "show" that would be in An … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.One of the down sides of most of collecting RPG magazines is that most of the ones from the 70s through the 90s were published before PDFs and other electronic formats were commonly in use. Thus, you … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.All RPG publishers struggle with getting the rules for the first editions of their games right. No matter how much you playtest and refine the rules, perfection remains elusive. RPG players love to f … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.An unexpected find... As shared here earlier, Jeremiah Evans and I went through the Chaosium vaults and archives this weekend preparing items for the Chaosium Con 2023 auction. We made … read more