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New Gamemaster Month kicks off today – this is the annual month-long seminar in the form of twice-weekly posts, organised by our friends at Monte Cook Games to guide prospective GMs up to and through their first game.Chaosium is one of the six game companies taking part, and our featured s … read more

Did you know legendary video game director Hidetaka Miyazaki (Souls, Bloodbourne) is a long-time fan of our RuneQuest tabletop roleplaying game? His eagerly-awaited new game Elden Ring is due out next month—and he's specifically cited RuneQuest as one of its key influences.Read more a … read more

Baz Stevens, co-host of the popular What Would The Smart Party Do? podcast, is starting a new podcast for 2022 - RuneQuest Year Zero. Baz says,"RuneQuest Year Zero is my ongoing project for 2022 at least. Where after 40 years of never really getting into RuneQuest, I thought it was perhaps … read more

Here's everything we released in 2021 on DriveThruRPG in case there's something you missed for your DriveThruRPG library:JANUARYMalleus Monstrorum Keeper Deck (Call of Cthulhu)The monsters of the Cthulhu Mythos at your fingertips!Call of Cthulhu Keeper Decks (Call of Cthulhu)Four decks of refer … read more

Chaosium's Glorantha guru Jeff Richard talks about how mythology is central to the structure and development of RuneQuest and Glorantha as a setting. Part of our 'Chaosium Interviews' series on YouTube, with James Coquillat. … read more

So, according to RPG Geek, in their '50 Greatest RPGs' List – as determined last year by RPG Geek Data – Call of Cthulhu is #2, Pendragon is #13, RuneQuest is #16, 7th Sea is #38, BRP is #45, and Stormbringer is #48. That's good going!Note: one factor in the ratings is the number of owners of a … read more

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 … read more

Congratulations to our friends at the Miskatonic University Podcast (including Chaosium's own Bridgett Jeffries), the Modern Mythos Podcast, and Ain't Slayed Nobody. These Call of Cthulhu podcasts were nominees in EN World's Favourite TTRPG Podcasts of 2021 poll. Thousa … read more