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Pendragon Design Journal #12: Writing the Starter Set, Part Two
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 31st Aug 2022
By David Larkins, Pendragon line editor.A new edition of the Pendragon RPG is coming! The intention of this series of design journals by Pendragon line editor David Larkins is to trace the path of development, starting in the early 1980s and culminating with the forthcoming new edition of the Pendra
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Chaosium Interviews: What is Evil in TTRPGs?
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Aug 2022
In this Chaosium Interview, creative director Jeff Richard talks to James Coquillat about the concept of evil in TTRPGs. Who are your enemies? Is it okay to slay them? How can you tell the best stories by playing with morality and evil?Experience the complex moral gameplay of Glorantha for your
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Miskatonic Monday #59: The Bloated Saint and other new Cthulhu Dark Ages community content releases
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 29th Aug 2022
Our supplement Cthulhu Dark Ages Third Edition is set in the medieval world of Anglo-Saxon England. It comes with three scenarios – The Hunt, The Doom That Came to Wessex, and Eseweald. And when you've played through those, the Miskatonic Repository can keep your Call of Cthulhu investigat
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Journey to Jonstown #44: Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks - and our 250th title!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Aug 2022
The Jonstown Compendium at DriveThruRPG is the thriving online community for fans of Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha, setting of the RuneQuest TTRPG, to sell and share their own creations. Today we mark the 250th title released in the Jonstown Compendium with a series of titles abo
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Chaosium Demos of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and 7th Sea – Glass Cannon Network at Gen Con 2022
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Aug 2022
Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, 7th Sea: the Glass Cannon Network played demo games of them all at Gen Con, one after the other, in the space of one hour 45 minutes!In a virtuoso GMing performance, Chaosium's Brian Holland introduces these TTRPGs to Joe O'Brien, Paula Deeming, Matthew Capodica
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Chaosium Interviews: Downtime in TTRPGs, with David Larkins
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Aug 2022
In this Chaosium Interview with James Coquillat, Pendragon line editor David Larkins talks about downtime in both the Pendragon RPG, and in TTRPGs more broadly.
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From the Q&A: How do I get a free PDF with my Chaosium book purchase?
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Aug 2022
From our Frequently Asked Questions:Q: How do I get a free PDF with my Chaosium book purchase?A: Purchasers of physical products at Chaosium.com get the PDFs for free. When you add a physical book to your shopping cart, we add the PDF at no extra cost:Q: If I buy just the PDF from Chaosium
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Journey to Jonstown #43: "Everyone has a wild beast within them"
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Aug 2022
As one of the founding editors of the renowned Gloranthan fanzine Tales of the Reaching Moon in 1989, Brian Duguid helped keep Glorantha fandom alive and thriving throughout the 1990s. And now, in 2022, Brian is back as an independent creator for RuneQuest with his amazing labor of love Th
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