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Chaosium Interviews: How to Run TTRPG Playtests, with Jason Durall
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd May 2022
Jason Durall, RuneQuest and BRP creative director, shares his tips and tricks on running the best TTRPG playtests: what you SHOULD do and what you SHOULDN'T do. The latest in our Chaosium Interview series with James Coquillat: catch them all at our YouTube channel!
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Miskatonic Monday #51: cool covers for Cthulhu community content
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd May 2022
There's some stand-out cover art going on in the Miskatonic Repository! So we got Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason, Chaosium vice president Michael O'Brien, and our community content Ambassadors Nick Brooke, Allan Carey, and Bridgett Jeffries to pick out some of their favourite
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Paul Fricker shows off the 'mindblowing' HPLHS Call of Cthulhu Classic Gamer Prop Set
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st May 2022
Paul Fricker, co-author of Call of Cthulhu 7th edition and one of the hosts of The Good Friends of Jackson Elias podcast, shows off the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's Call of Cthulhu Classic Gamer Prop Set. His verdict: "Mindblowing".The HPLHS Gamer Prop Set was created unde
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COVID-19 Shipping and Fulfilment Update - 30 April 2022
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Apr 2022
We hope that you, your family, and your friends continue to be in good health.Sadly, although it's been more than two years since our first COVID-19 shipping and fulfilment message, delays and supply chain disruptions continue to affect international shipping movements and postage times all over the
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Chaosium Unveiled: Keeper Tips
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 29th Apr 2022
Collected Wisdom on Running Games! Marking the 40th anniversary of Call of Cthulhu, this is a gathering of wisdom, advice, and tips from Keepers for Keepers. Our pocket-sized guide to running games of Call of Cthulhu has an old-school black & white interior within a premium leatherette hard
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Lords of the Middle Sea Update: a nice milestone at Chaosium Con
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Apr 2022
Lords of the Middle Sea: The Roleplaying Game is in development. Based on Lynn Willis's 1978 futuristic proto-Steampunk board game, set in the post-apocalyptic ruins of a flooded North America, the tabletop RPG utilizes a streamlined version of the Basic Roleplaying system.Jason Durall, creative lea
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Pendragon Design Journal #9: Of Horses and Squires
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Apr 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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Conventions have begun in earnest - and the Cult of Chaos will be at them!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Apr 2022
Our post-con survey for Chaosium Con indicates this was the first convention about 50% of the attendees had been to since the pandemic started. But that's a huge sign that people are coming out of their lairs and blinking in the bright sunshine of in-person gaming again! And members of the
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