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The award-winning writer and editor James Lowder, Chaosium's Executive Editor for Fiction, is Keeper for a special Call of Cthulhu session at Gen Con in aid of the Worldbuilders charity ("geeks doing good").Says James:"My event for the Worldbuilders charity is now live on th … read more

We let our 13th Age in Glorantha backers know they were going to receive something extra: these guys didn't show up for the playtest packet, but Dragon Pass' most dangerous mercenaries will be in the final version of Chapter 5: Enemies.Over to 13th Age in Glorantha co-designer Rob Heinsoo to ex … read more

It has been officially announced. Chaosium is bringing RuneQuest back with a new edition of the rules, set in the world of Glorantha. While the official release of the game is still some time off, the first release is the Quickstart Rule book as part of Free RPG Day, this June 17. We are a Gold … read more

The full-color hardback RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha rules will be out later this year, but in the mean time, the 48 page RuneQuest Quickstart Rules features everything you need to start playing, and includes a new adventure "The Broken Tower" and five pre-gen characters.Here, Chaosium P … read more

For the second year, Chaosium offers UK Games Expo attendees a Cthulhu workshop, games, and a glimpse at Glorantha. Plus the latest releases at the Chaosium Booth, including Pulp Cthulhu, Doors to Darkness, and H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers.Friday 12.00pm (SEM2 … read more

From Mike Mason, Call of Cthulhu line editorEarlier this year Chaosium invited members of the Cult of Chaos, our cadre of volunteer game masters, to submit pitches for short scenarios that could be played in a single 4-hour time slot at games conventions.We received over 100 pitches and from th … read more

At its heart, Chaosium is a roleplaying game company. Since RuneQuest came out in 1978 and Call of Cthulhu followed in 1981 we've been producing award-winning roleplaying games with artistic integrity. The who's who of RPG writers have all contributed to make our games great. We'd love for you to jo … read more

Chaosium was born out of fiction. Greg Stafford discovered Glorantha through his writings which led him to founding the company. Only a few years later, Chaosium turned H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous story of the Cthulhu Mythos into our most award winning RPG game, Call of Cthulhu, writ … read more