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Chaosium will be at Essen demoing Horror on the Orient Express The Board Game
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd Oct 2023
Chaosium is coming to Speil Essen, October 5th-8th – and we'll be demoing Horror on the Orient Express The Board Game!The co-designers themselves Adam Kwapiński and Michał Gołąb Gołębiowski will be there to show off the latest prototype, answer your questions, and demo gameplay of this eag
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Kuba Polkowski is now lead producer for Chaosium's new board games division; Susan O'Brien is line editor for fiction
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Oct 2023
We formally welcome these members of the Chaosium team to their new roles!Kuba Polkowski, formerly working as an art director for Chaosium, is now lead producer for our new board games division which is led by Chaosium Vice President Daria Pilarczyk. Kuba’s major focus is the board game ve
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Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game Design Journal #3 – Analysing Expectations
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Sep 2023
Call of Cthulhu's Horror on the Orient Express has long been revered as one of the most iconic and acclaimed horror campaigns in tabletop roleplaying — so we're very excited that a new board game adaption is coming! In this design journal series, co-designers Adam Kwapiński and Michał Gołą
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Chaosium Interviews: Make Mysteries from Scratch, with Lynne Hardy
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 29th Sep 2023
What kind of mystery is the hardest to solve? Rivers of London line editor and Call of Cthulhu associate editor Lynne Hardy shares some useful advice about how to make your own mysteries from scratch, and how to alter them on the fly if your players do something unexpected.Lynne is talking with
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Coming up at PAX AUS: Chaosium Presents: Call of Cthulhu Live! (Oct 7)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Sep 2023
It's the official Call of Cthulhu Stream of Chaos live from PAXAUS! Join us for a 2-hour one shot actual play of the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG, full of unknowable horror, and maybe a laugh or two!Live at the Twitch Quokka Theatre at the Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre, and streamed on PA
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Chaosium Interviews: Weirdest BRP Settings, with Jeff Richard
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Sep 2023
Physical editions of the Basic Roleplaying Universal Game Engine book* are fast approaching!
Here, Chaosium's Jeff Richard talks about some of the strangest settings that the versatile BRP ruleset has been applied to. Part of our Chaosium Interviews series with James Coquillat.
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Call of Cthulhu 7th edition co-author Paul Fricker formally joins the Chaosium team
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Sep 2023
Call of Cthulhu 7th edition co-author Paul Fricker has formally joined the Chaosium team as an associate editor.Paul is best known
for the latest edition of Chaosium’s acclaimed RPG, Call of Cthulhu, in partnership with Mike Mason, and more recently for the ENNIE-award winning R
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Chaosium Unveiled: Nameless Horrors 2nd Edition
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Sep 2023
Six scenarios against the Unknown! Chaosium Unveiled looks at Nameless Horrors 2nd Edition. Originally published in softcover nearly 10 years ago, this updated hardback edition of Nameless Horrors contains brand new art, player handouts, and maps for each of its six scenarios.Available now
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