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Out of the Suitcase #1: Jack O'Bears and Me
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Dec 2020
Chaosium President Rick Meints's stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium 'Out of the Suitcase' is a new regular series of posts from Chaosium President Rick Meints. An avid RPG collector, his love of all of Chaosium's publications, plus anything Gloranthan or Ru
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Mark Smylie's 'The Barrow' - an adventure for Artesia with stats for RuneQuest and adaption notes for Glorantha
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Dec 2020
Jason Durall, our RuneQuest creative director, writes: "For fans of RuneQuest and/or Mark Smylie's Artesia comics, here's an adventure set in The Known World with stats for RuneQuest and notes to adapt it to Glorantha. Officially authorized, no less. It is always a pleasure to work wi
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Chaosium Jigsaw Puzzles at Redbubble - great gifts for time indoors this holiday season
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Dec 2020
If you're looking for gifts that would be great for spending time indoors this holiday season check out our jigsaw puzzles! We have a selection of over two dozen alluring images from our popular games including Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Glorantha, and 7th Sea! You can find all of these, and p
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RuneQuest is one of the featured RPGs in New Gamemaster Month, commencing Jan 5
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Nov 2020
Have you thought about GMing—maybe always wanted to give it a shot—but haven’t quite taken the plunge? What if we told you that by the first week in February, you could be an honest-to-goodness GM—and it’ll be easy!New Gamemaster Month gives you what you need to run your first game: Inspiration, adv
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Journey to Jonstown #17 - Michael O'Brien's 'Fortunate Sun' now part of the remastered Sandheart Trilogy
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Nov 2020
"Since helping take over the reins at Chaosium five years ago, my writing has mostly had to be licensing, media releases and the like, rather than RPG stuff. So I am delighted my new RuneQuest scenario 'Fortunate Sun' is out now in the Jonstown Compendium, our community content platform for gaming i
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New RuneQuest - Glorantha coins, from our friends at Campaign Coins
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Nov 2020
"We have adventured in Greg Stafford's Glorantha for decades, so it is an incredible honour to make the coins of this extraordinary bronze age world of myth and heroism. There is no game like it." — Campaign Coins.New RuneQuest - Glorantha coins, from our friends at Campaign Coins - may Issaries con
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Journey to Jonstown #16 - Art packs by creators!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Nov 2020
Jonstown Compendium creators – check out these Art Packs by fellow creators Martin Helsdon and Dario Corallo!Martin and Dario have both given permission to purchasers to use these illustrations in Jonstown Compendium publications (with a credit to the artist). The labels can be removed, and the imag
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Journey to Jonstown #15: the glorious return of Moonson!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 5th Nov 2020
We are truly in a Gloranthan Age of Wonders!
MOB's Foreword of the recently released Jonstown Compendium title Life of Moonson Book One - The Characters.In addition to Chaosium’s beautiful new RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha line,
just recently the entire corpus of second-edition&nbs
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