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Call of Cthulhu's 'Does Love Forgive?' is 'Pay-Want-You-Want' for the next fourteen days; but don't pay us, donate to support Ukrainian Refugees
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Mar 2022
We're making the Call of Cthulhu scenario collection Does Love Forgive? 'Pay-What-You-Want' on DriveThruRPG for the next two weeks (regular price is USD$5.99). If you download it, instead of paying us, we encourage you to make a donation to organisations supporting people seeking safety fr
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Miskatonic Monday #46: Retiring the Monographs
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Feb 2022
Chaosium has officially retired its "Monograph" series, which between 2003 and 2013 released material for the Basic Roleplaying System and, under the Miskatonic University Library Association (MULA) imprint, for Call of Cthulhu.Established in 2003 and spearheaded by Dustin Wright, the monograph
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Chaosium Interviews: How RuneQuest Rekindled Loic Muzy's Passion for Art
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Feb 2022
For our Chaosium Interviews series, staff artist Loïc Muzy shares with James Coquillat how his journey into working on RuneQuest Glorantha helped rekindle his passion for his artistic work. You can see some of Loïc's beautiful Gloranthan art in the RuneQuest Starte
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The RuneQuest Starter Stream: Episode 02 - A Rough Landing is now up on YouTube
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Feb 2022
The Stream of Chaos is playing RuneQuest!In this episode, the heroes—Bridgett Jeffries, David Naylor, London Carlisle and Cynthia Marie—receive their first quest from GM James Coquillat and set forth towards Mernyr's Landing.If you want to join us live, we stream every Monday at 3pm PT / 6pm ET
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Pendragon Design Journal #7: The Social Game
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Feb 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: Illustrating Cthulhu, with Loic Muzy
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Feb 2022
Our talented staff artist Loïc Muzy talks with James Coquillat about his experiences illustrating Cthulhu Mythos creatures throughout his career. You can see Loïc's superlative work throughout many Chaosium products, including The Malleus Monstrorum and the Petersen Field Gu
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Roll20 has doubled in size in two years, and Call of Cthulhu has grown with it
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 23rd Feb 2022
Our friends at Roll20 have reported that user numbers on their platform have doubled in the last two years, going from five million users to more than 10 million since March 2020! Throughout that explosion of growth Call of Cthulhu has remained the second-most popular system on Roll20
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We've seen the proofs: HPLHS's Gamer Prop Set for Call of Cthulhu Classic will deliver on promise to offer "levels of detail and realism to enhance fun and test sanity".
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Feb 2022
As part of our Call of Cthulhu 40th anniversary our friends the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society are creating a Deluxe Handout Set to go with the five supplements included in our Call of Cthulhu Classic Kickstarter.Winners of Product of the Year in the 2019 ENNIE Awards for their Masks of
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