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Masks of Nyarlathotep - Fantasy Flight's newest expansion for Eldritch Horror is based on the classic Call of Cthulhu campaign
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th Oct 2017
In Fantasy Flight Game's popular board game Eldritch Horror, players move their investigators around the world in a fight against the unspeakable forces of the Ancient Ones. For the game's next expansion, it was announced today that Chaosium's classic Call of Cthulhu campaign Masks of
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Was Chaosium's founder first to buy a copy of D&D?
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 29th Sep 2017
[From stackexchange.com]Q: Was Chaosium's founder first to buy a copy of D&D?A: TL/DR: YesIs this true (allowing for the difficulties that interviews with Californian Arkati Shaman-Publishers present to seekers of truth)? Did Stafford's friend acquire a copy of D&D directly from Gy
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13th Age in Glorantha Update: Earth Priestess layout
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Sep 2017
Rob Heinsoo has reported to Kickstarter backers that 13G layout is proceeding smoothly. Here's a two-page spread from the earth priestess, the spot where the favors of the earth section transitions over to summoning. Rob says, "I love Caleb Cleveland's illustration of the oldest earth prie
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New Board and Card Games Submissions Guidelines Released
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Sep 2017
Chaosium’s first-ever release was a board game, Greg Stafford’s epic wargame White Bear Red Moon, back in 1975.As Chaosium began to make its mark publishing roleplaying games, it also produced memorable board and card game titles including Nomad Gods (1978), Lords of the Middle Sea (1978), Raiders a
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The Art of Call of Cthulhu - The Coloring Book
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Sep 2017
Andrey Fetisov has gone and colored in all his pictures from the Gold ENnie award-winning Call of Cthulhu the Coloring Book - fortunately he stayed inside the (non-Euclidean) lines. And now you can get these Lovecraftian masterpieces on t-shirts, posters, notebooks and the l
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Infinity Engine is creating a licensed range of RuneQuest miniatures and scenery
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Sep 2017
Chaosium welcomes our newest licensee for miniatures, Infinity Engine. Company founder Richard Helliwell says, "It's a huge thing for us, we all loved RuneQuest since the beginning of our roleplaying days and now to be making miniatures is something we have wanted to do since starting the compa
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13th Age in Glorantha Update - slice from Chapter 4: Classes layout
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Sep 2017
By Rob HeinsooWe're in the middle of Chapter 4 layout. Here's a slice from early on that includes the stats table for all the classes and the start of the berserker.If you recognize the art at the top right, that's because we've licensed seven pieces we really like from Petersen Games' GODS WAR game
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Wyrms Footnotes Returns!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Sep 2017
Wyrms Footnotes is Chaosium’s House Magazine for Greg Stafford’s World of Glorantha. Fourteen issues were published between 1976 - 1983. After a (mere) 29 year hiatus, Wyrms Footnotes returned in 2012 with issue #15, produced by Moon Design Publications. In 2017, Wyrms Footnotes is back ag
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