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Journey to Jonstown #65: more great Gloranthan creations in the Jonstown Compendium
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 14th Dec 2023
Are you a RuneQuest GM looking for new scenarios and story elements? A player looking for something mysterious to spark a character idea? Is your group looking for more Gloranthan goodness to use in your game? The Jonstown Compendium is where you can find —and create —self-published material for you
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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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Three new Chaosium releases for March 2024
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Nov 2023
Three new releases from Chaosium for March 2024!Cults of RuneQuest: The Lunar WayCHA4045-H$39.99ISBN 9781568824741160 pagesHardcoverI believe in the Red Goddess, Mistress of Life and DeathCults of RuneQuest: The Lunar Way is the player’s guide to the deities of the Red Moon. Each cult dives deep int
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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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Coming in March: a new cover for The Glorantha Sourcebook
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th Nov 2023
Coming in March 2024, a new cover for The Glorantha Sourcebook! This new cover by the award-winning Chaosium staff artist Loïc Muzy features iconic characters from Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. This edition contains revised, updated, and expanded content drawn from a variety of
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"RuneQuest Official Guru" t-shirt from 1994 has been lovingly recreated
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Nov 2023
If you were lucky, you might have got one of these at the first RuneQuestCon, held in Baltimore MD in January 1994 (Avalon Hill Game Company vice president Eric Dott was handing them out). Now – with one heartfelt addition* – here’s a replica of that very t-shirt. Thanks to uber-RQ fan Edward J
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Journey to Jonstown #64: Milestone for RuneQuest creators – 50,000 sales on the Jonstown Compendium!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Oct 2023
Today marks a significant milestone – we just sold our 50,000th product on the Jonstown Compendium!Established in December 2019, the Jonstown Compendium is Chaosium's platform on DriveThruRPG for independent creators of gaming material for Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha and the RuneQue
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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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