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Unnatural Selections: Recent Chaosium Reviews of Note #4
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd May 2018
Something a bit different today: reviews of reviewers, on YouTube! The fantasy news and reviews website Fantasy-Faction has recently posted an excellent overview of RPG and board game reviewers on YouTube. Three great channels that regularly—if not almost exclusively—talk about C
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Another Stretch Goal passed, a new Stretch Goal added in our Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection Kickstarter!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd May 2018
Another Stretch Goal passed, a new Stretch Goal added in our Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection Kickstarter! This one is direct from Reiner Knizia's home base and design studio in Germany: a new eighth Defense Card for the game. We already have a "Flee" card in our MU game; this o
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Miskatonic University Kickstarter backers get Sneak Peek at Victor Leza's Masks of Nyarlathotep Art
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Apr 2018
In our latest Kickstarter update for our Miskatonic University board game, backers are getting a sneak peek at some of Victor Leza's amazing new art for the forthcoming Masks of Nyarlathotep!For the full image of the above, and more of Victor's awesome Masks art check out the link!https://
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Miskatonic University Kickstarter: an MU short story by Molly Tanzer, just for backers
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Apr 2018
Chaosium was born out of fiction—company founder Greg Stafford discovered his mythic world of Glorantha through his writings. Only a few years later, Sandy Petersen turned H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous story of the Cthulhu Mythos into our most award winning RPG game, Call of Cthulhu. Since 1992, Chao
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One Last (Final!) Chance to Catch the Train!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 23rd Apr 2018
We thought we had sold out of HORROR ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, our luxury campaign for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition, but recent stocktaking at our UK and USA warehouses has uncovered some additional copies!We have a very limited number of these boxed sets available, and once sold, they ar
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MU Board Game Kickstarter: we're funded, just 16 hours in - now on to Stretch Goals!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th Apr 2018
We reached our $25,000 funding goal for the Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection Kickstarter in under 16 hours from launch! From all the team at Chaosium, thank you to all our backers so far—students, professors, valedictorians, deans and members of the board. It's great to be back
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Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection board game - the semester has begun on Kickstarter!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 17th Apr 2018
.....We're excited to have just launched our first Lovecraftian board game since 1987. We hope you'll support our campaign and make the Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection game a reality!—all the team at Chaosium Inc.The basic pledge is just $25.00. This includes the complete
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This weekend Chaosium's James Lowder is a guest of honor at Concinnity, Milwaukee WI
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 16th Apr 2018
Chaosium's James Lowder, Executive Editor for Fiction, is a guest this Saturday, April 21 at Concinnity 18, a gaming and science fiction convention at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He's participating in a panel at noon on writing for Dungeons & Dragons and Call of Cthulhu, then running h
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