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"Tentacled but OK" - the late, great Brian Lumley on Call of Cthulhu fans
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Feb 2024
Esteemed horror writer and Mythos creator Brian Lumley, who passed away in early January, was not a player of the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG himself. But he did once have nice things to say about the Call of Cthulhu fans he'd interacted with. This was in the pages of the seminal 1980's fan
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Pendragon 6E releases in April: ‘The hobby is only just catching up to what Greg did 40 years ago’ (Dicebreaker).
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 31st Jan 2024
As exclusively revealed yesterday by Dicebreaker, King Arthur Pendragon, the epic fantasy RPG of questing knights considered by late RuneQuest creator Greg Stafford as his “masterpiece”, returns with its first full new edition in nearly two decades this April.The Player's Handbook rel
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Happy 50th birthday Dungeons and Dragons from Chaosium
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Jan 2024
Happy 50th birthday Dungeons and Dragons from Chaosium! Chaosium's own first TTRPG RuneQuest (1978) was dedicated to D&D creators Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, "who first opened Pandora's Box". Everyone playing, creating and working in tabletop roleplaying games today appreciates that audacious first
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Vale Brian Lumley (1937–2024)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 29th Jan 2024
Today we learned of the sad news of the passing of Brian Lumley (1937–2024). Brian was the recipient of a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association.Coming to the fore with his Cthulhu Mythos fiction in 1971 with The Caller
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Announcing the premiere of Graveyards of Arkham: Wednesday February 7th
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Jan 2024
"Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil, as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave..."Graveyards of Arkham premieres on twitch Wednesday, February 7th 6:30pm PT/9:30pm ET, running weekly for six weeks. With Keeper Mark Meer, and investigators Lucia Versprille, Patrick
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Missed the Call of Cthulhu Humble Bundle? Don't worry, it has been extended by a week!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Jan 2024
Thanks to the incredible response to the Call of Cthulhu campaign, Humble Bundle has extended the offer for one more week!Just $25 gets you over $400 worth of digital Call of Cthulhu books - the starter set, the core rules, and years worth of gaming fun! Jump on board while you can and see
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Out of the Suitcase #48: 'Good old Burly Bob' - a basic history of Basic Role-Playing
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Jan 2024
-- "Good old Burly Bob" - art by William Church --Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.A few weeks ago during a podcast I answered a number of questions about the fabled “lost” manuscript for Chaosium’s Dark Worlds project (the ill-star
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The Stream of Chaos has played through 'Alone Against the Static' - watch it all here
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Jan 2024
Alone Against the Static is our latest Call of Cthulhu solo adventure. It is designed to be played alone - no Keeper needed. But here our Stream of Chaos team show you how it can actually be played using a traditional Keeper and Investigators format. The same approach can be used with all our solo a
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