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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part Four: Came the Ducks
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever published a
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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part Three: Ha Ha in the basement
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever published a
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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part Two: Any character can do anything
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever published a
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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part One: "The Chaosium’s role playing game”
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever p
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Steve Perrin's final design work for RuneQuest was something of a love letter to his wife Luise
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
We were delighted when Steve Perrin joined the design team for the new edition of RuneQuest in 2016. At the time RQG design lead Jeff Richard said, “We want to usher in the newest exploration of Glorantha with a tribute to the masterpiece opus of work that has come before. Part of Ste
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Vale and farewell, Steve Perrin (1946 - 2021)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Aug 2021
Vale and farewell, Steve Perrin!By Rick Meints, Chaosium PresidentWhen the world of roleplaying games was still waiting to be born, you and your closest friends conjured up the Society for Creation Anachronism (SCA) from the realms of your collective imagination. Bump, bump, bump down the stair
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Out of the Suitcase #19: Another Mystery Solved... CHA2341
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Aug 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Every so often we get a wonderful completist collector of Chaosium games ask us about some of our product numbers that never got used. One of the earliest ones we skipped was CHA2341 in the Call of C
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Unnatural Selections #49 - "flipping the script": notable critical commentary for four recent groundbreaking Call of Cthulhu titles
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Aug 2021
The 'Unnatural Selections' series is our regular round up of notable Chaosium reviews worth a look. Here's some critical commentary about recent groundbreaking Call of Cthulhu releases that "flip the script":BERLIN THE WICKED CITY"I confess I’m blown away. Weimar-era Berlin (1919-1932) is
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