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This year's UK Games Expo Award for Best Role Play Game was won by Chaosium for the new edition of Call of Cthulhu. As presented by the Sixth Doctor himself, Colin Baker!Congratulations to Mike Mason, Paul Fricker, Sandy Petersen and everyone in the team! … read more

FIRST ANNUAL UPDATE - June 2016 by Rick Meints - President, Chaosium Today marks one year since the Great Old Ones returned to Chaosium.I paused after writing that. The last 12 months went by so quickly, and so much has happened it is hard to take it all in. We in the new Chaos … read more

Let Paul Fricker, co-author of the new edition, take you through the new rules in this youtube "how to" series from the Good Friends of Jackson Elias podcast. Part One begins with 'Creating an Investigator': … read more

By Jeff Richard On Zeroes to Heroes We all know the classic RPG trope - we make a character based on a concept, but when we first start playing them, they generally suck at doing anything. We fumble along through "low level adventures", fighting trollkin or rubble runners, until we've gain … read more

The Cult of Chaos, our Organized Play and Game Master program, is all about having fun and being inclusive. And so far in A Time to Harvest, our first big Organized Play Campaign for Call of Cthulhu, we fortunately haven't had any sort of the issues reported that are talked about in t … read more

The second installment of A Time to Harvest, Chaosium's new Organized Play campaign for Call of Cthulhu, is ready for download. The campaign is available free to all Cult of Chaos members. Join now and you can also receive the first installment!Part Two brings the investigat … read more

In a recent article, the influential geekandsundry.com has proclaimed that Call of Cthulhu is "unequivocally the greatest role-playing game ever written". The gauntlet is thrown - or in this case, the tentacle, but yep, we think so too!http://geekandsundry.com/the-best-rpg-of-all-time … read more

By Jeff RichardI figured in this set of RuneQuest Design Notes I'd answer a key question that we get quite often -"are you using the [pick a rule] from RQ [pick an edition]?"One of the mantras we have in writing the new edition is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." In RQ2 the main things that wer … read more