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Out of the Suitcase #11: 1981 a Golden Age for Chaosium? Plus, a solution to Rick's real-life Call of Cthulhu mystery
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Feb 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumI pose the question: was 1981 the Golden Age of Chaosium? While Chaosium has had a number of epic years full of ground-breaking RPG releases, I submit for debate that 1981 was one of the best, if
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Chaosium Interviews: Crafting a campaign - five years writing The Children of Fear, with Lynne Hardy
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Feb 2021
The latest in our Chaosium Interview series is all about The Children of Fear, the epic new campaign by Lynne Hardy that reviewers have likened to Masks of Nyarlathotep and Horror on the Orient Express, promising to take a place as one of the greats of Call of Cthulhu.Chaosium's James
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Out of the Suitcase #10: can some Investigators help solve this mystery with Library Use...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Feb 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumForty years ago, on Halloween 1981, The Chaosium debuted our Call of Cthulhu RPG on an unsuspecting world. Canadian artist Gene Day, well-known for his work for Marvel Comics, painted the&nb
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Syrinscape's MegaPack of immersive sounds and music for the entire Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Feb 2021
Now available as a MegaPack: Peru, New York, London, Egypt, Kenya, Australia, Shanghai - our friends at Syrinscape have matched immersive background sounds and music to every scene in every chapter of Masks of Nyarlathotep, one of the greatest TTRPG adventures of all time!Masks of Nyarlathotep - Meg
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Our DriveThruRPG Community Ambassadors are panelists at Virtual Horror Con, coming up this weekend
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th Feb 2021
Our Community Ambassadors for the Miskatonic Repository and Jonstown Compendium community content programs at DriveThruRPG are guests at Virtual Horror Con, coming up this weekend.At 6:30pm EST on Friday 19th February, our Jonstown Compendium Community Ambassador Nick Brooke will be p
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Out of the Suitcase #9: More about the MiG
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th Feb 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumAs I mentioned in an earlier 'Out of the Suitcase' post, I've recently been in the process of updating a book that went out of print over 20 years ago. Back in 1999 the Reaching Moon Megacorp pub
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HBO’s horror show 30 Coins explores evil with the style of an RPG (according to the director himself)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 16th Feb 2021
"30 Coins is structured like a tabletop role-playing game, with subplots following each other in a narrative that eventually reveals their close connections. The director said so himself, expressly citing the Call of Cthulhu campaigns The Masks of Nyarlathotep and Tatters of the King."—Polygon.'30 C
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Chaosium Interviews: Mike Mason on Mastering the Malleus Monstrorum
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 16th Feb 2021
Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason describes the indescribable: here he talks to James Coquillat about the eldritch entities found within the pages of the Malleus Monstrorum, our newly-released Cthulhu Mythos Bestiary:
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