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Out of the Suitcase #37: A recent addition to my collection... 29 years after unknowingly insulting the President of Avalon Hill
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 12th Jan 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.While attending RQ Con 1 in Baltimore way back in January of 1994, I gladly took a small bit of time to wander through the "dealer area." While there, I scanned through everything on offer at the Ava
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Out of the Suitcase #36: You should become our RuneQuest historian…
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Nov 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.You should become our RuneQuest historian…That’s what Greg Stafford said to me in January of 1994. We had just spent an hour energetically chatting about early RuneQuest books and how they
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Chaosium releases The Meints Index to Glorantha – the Ultimate Guide for Collecting RuneQuest and Glorantha
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Nov 2022
The Ultimate Guide for Collecting RuneQuest and Glorantha!In the modern collector’s market, knowing what you need is essential if you want to save time and money. MIG3: The Meints Index to Glorantha (aka MIG3), contains an exhaustive catalog of RuneQuest and Glorantha titles and related product
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Out of the Suitcase #35: From the Archives – Sage Advice from Greg Stafford
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Oct 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.In the late 1970s Greg Stafford ran an ongoing RuneQuest RPG campaign, which generally became known as the "Chaosium house campaign." Many of the earliest Chaosium employees and fans played in i
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Out of the Suitcase #34: (Re)Forging friendships by chance...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Sep 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.One of the best parts about going to various tradeshows and conventions includes making new friends and catching up with old ones. Most shows I manage to take a few moments to chat with Don Reents of
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Out of the Suitcase #33: Collecting and dealing with personal demons...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Sep 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.One of the joys and curses of being a completist collector means you seek out every printing, edition, and variant of each item. The most recent occurrence of this for me relates to the Citadel
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Out of the Suitcase #32: A quirky game company, indeed; plus Rick talks to the God Learners
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd Apr 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I was trying to clean up and file away a bunch of papers on my desk last recently when I came upon an Avalon Hill catalog from September of 1983. I wondered if it would mention anything about RuneQue
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Chaosium Interviews: Rick imagines Chaosium Con 10
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Mar 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints imagines what Chaosium Con 10 might be like, and reflects on his past and on the future of Chaosium. He's talking to James Coquillat for our 'Chaosium Interviews' series.There's still time to attend the inaugural Chaosium Con in Ann Arbor next month
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