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Miskatonic Monday #38: ENNIE nominated Seeds of Terror marks a one year mile stone
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Sep 2021
Congratulations to community creator Allan Carey of Type40! Twelve months ago he started the Seeds of Terror range on the Miskatonic Repository, with the aim creating a monthly series of accessible and exciting scenarios for Call of Cthulhu that Keepers can pick up and run in one even
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Chaosium Interviews: Jason Durall on learning a new TTRPG setting fast
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 5th Sep 2021
RuneQuest and BRP creative director Jason Durall talks through his tactics to learn new TTRPG settings fast. Part of the Chaosium Interviews series with James Coquillat.
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Unnatural Selections #52 - Play these critically acclaimed Call of Cthulhu releases on Roll20
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Sep 2021
The 'Unnatural Selections' series is our regular round up of notable Chaosium reviews worth a look.As the overall number of people playing online continues to rise, we're pleased to see that more than 1 out of every 10 games on Roll20 are Call of Cthulhu. Throughout 2021 we've been steadily add
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Y’all of Cthulhu - Ain't Slayed Nobody Call of Cthulhu Podcast Wraps Debut Season
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Sep 2021
Our friends at the Ain't Slayed Nobody podcast have wrapped their inaugural first season, which began in January 2020. Ain't Slayed's comedy-horror Call of Cthulhu actual play podcast uses the Down Darker Trails setting for a tale of cosmic horror in the Wild West and has drawn t
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Journey to Jonstown #26: over 2000 pages of new RuneQuest community content!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Sep 2021
One of the latest additions to the Jonstown Compendium is a whopper: 2000 pages! Of Pimper's Block: The Complete Collection, Six Seasons in Sartar and Company of the Dragon author Andrew Logan Montgomery says:"Really, this is the sort of thing the Jonstown Compendium was mad
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Unnatural Selections #51 - recent RuneQuest reviews, "the technicolor cure for bland, pseudo-medieval generic fantasy"
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 31st Aug 2021
The 'Unnatural Selections' series is our regular round up of notable Chaosium reviews worth a look.Here are recent reviews for RuneQuest and RuneQuest Classic. This titles are all available from Chaosium.com. And don't forget, you get the PDF included in the price when you buy direct from Chaos
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Miskatonic Monday #37 - more community content titles for August!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Aug 2021
Here's a great selection of new Call of Cthulhu community titles on DriveThruRPG! Congratulations to all the authors, especially first-time publishers in the Miskatonic Repository.Four-Bit Characters, Volume 1Aaron Vanek ($5.00, 70 page PDF)Ten pre-generated characters for use as PCs or NPCs in the
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Out of the Suitcase #21: The first Manual of Monsters
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Aug 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Steve Perrin's unexpected passing has gotten me to thinking about his far-reaching legacy within the world of role-playing games. As I ponder his role in those early days I find myself pulling v
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