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The Glass Cannon Network's 'Pendragon: Under an Iron Sky', new actual play series premieres
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 19th Mar 2025
Picking up right where they left left off at Gen Con 2024, it's the continuation of the Glass Cannon Network's Pendragon series! They're kicking things off with a Winter Phase!
Pendragon: Under an Iron Sky airs tonight at 8PM ET on YouTube:
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Coming to Chaosium Con USA: Community Content Pop-Up Store!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th Mar 2025
Chaosium's Community Content programs, such as the Miskatonic Repository (for Call of Cthulhu), Jonstown Compendium (for RuneQuest/Glorantha), and The Companions of Arthur (for Pendragon), allow fans to self-publish content for their RPGs, with Chaosium providing support, guidelines - and bles
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Who to expect at Chaosium Con USA in Ann Arbor next month (April 10-13)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 17th Mar 2025
Who can you expect at Chaosium Con 2025 in Ann Arbor MI next month?
From the Chaosium USA team:
Jeremiah Evans, Bridgett Jeffries, David Larkins, Chandler Kennedy, Mike Mearls, Rick Meints, Jenelle O’Neil, Jeff Richard, Neil Robinson, THE Matt Ryan, and
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'Opening Pandora's Box' — D&D Historian Ben Riggs talks to Chaosium's MOB about the company's 50th anniversary
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 16th Mar 2025
Chaosium's Michael O'Brien talks to D&D historian Ben Riggs (Slaying the Dragon) on Chaosium's 50th Anniversary. Ben's podcast is called 'Reading D&D Aloud', so MOB shares the dedication Greg Stafford put in Chaosium's first-ever roleplaying game, RuneQuest (1978). Greg wrote RuneQu
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Italian versions of Pendragon, RuneQuest and Call of Cthulhu Starter Sets, and Call of Cthulhu 40th Anniversary Box announced
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 14th Mar 2025
Our friends Raven Distirbution have announced licensed Italian versions of the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set, Pendragon Starter Set, and RuneQuest Starter Set, and the Call of Cthulhu Classic 40th Anniversary Boxed Set.
Raven will reveal these exciting boxed sets at the PLAY: Festiv
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From the Q&A: Why was HeroQuest renamed QuestWorlds?
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Mar 2025
From our Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: Why was HeroQuest renamed QuestWorlds?
A: In the 1970s, Chaosium founder Greg Stafford first used the term "heroquest" to describe a transformative journey in which a quester enters the realm of the gods to reenact a myth, returning with gifts or sp
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Call of Cthulhu returns to the Ballarat Heritage Festival with A Midsummer's Night Darkness (May 22nd 2025)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 12th Mar 2025
Call of Cthulhu returns to the Ballarat Heritage Festival in May, with an all new actual play production A Midsummer Night's Darkness.
A Midsummer Night’s Darkness is a gripping scenario that intertwines an often-overlooked yet crucial part of history—the suffragette movement—with
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Call of Cthulhu's No Time to Scream receives Origins Award nomination for Best RPG Supplement
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Mar 2025
Our Call of Cthulhu scenario collection No Time to Scream has been nominated for Best RPG Supplement in the 2025 Origins Awards!
Congratulations go to authors C.L. Werner, Bridgett Jeffries, and Brian Holland, editors Mike Mason and James Coquillat, and everyone else involved in the project. T
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