Vale Bryan Ansell, 1955-2023

Chaosium mourns the passing of games industry luminary Bryan Ansell, who died on December 30th 2023. 

Bryan was founder of Citadel Miniatures and a former Managing Director of Games Workshop. Bryan will be rightly remembered as a titan in the miniature wargames hobby, helping transform Games Workshop into the industry-leading global company that it is today. 

In his role as General Manager, Bryan was also instrumental in bringing licensed editions of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest and Stormbringer, plus Paranoia, to the UK market in the mid-1980s. These beautifully illustrated Games Workshop editions were highly successful, and did much to build the huge fanbase for Chaosium games that exists to this day in the United Kingdom and Europe.

Mike Mason, who previously worked at Games Workshop before joining Chaosium, said, "Bryan’s vision and love of miniatures and games was a passion. This passion was passed onto many gamers in the UK who look back fondly on the GW editions of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and others. We owe a massive debt of gratitude to Bryan for helping to feed our youthful gaming passions.”

Our condolences go to Bryan's family and friends.