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Gen Con Online update: what we're planning
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Jun 2020
With the cancellation of Gen Con in Indianapolis this summer, Gen Con Online is a new virtual convention experience to take its place. On July 30 – August 2, 2020 there will be four days of streaming shows, remote gaming, exhibitors, and more — and Chaosium is taking part!Here's
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Playing online? Try out our virtual backgrounds!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Apr 2020
Playing online now you're home? Try out our virtual backgrounds to add some epic flavour to your RPG sessions. Once only available to film and television, many computers are able present virtual backgrounds as though a person had a green screen. They can easily be used to spice up what your fe
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Announcing John Wick as International Guest of Honour for Chaosium Con Down Under, Sydney May 2-3
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Feb 2020
Award-winning game designer John Wick is International Guest of Honour for Chaosium Con Down Under, taking place in Sydney Australia on May 2-3, 2020.With extensive game industry credentials (Legend of the Five Rings RPG, 7th Sea, Orkworld, etc), John joined Chaosium in 2019 as Creati
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Call for GMs for Chaosium Con Down Under (Sydney, May 2-3, 2020)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 31st Jan 2020
For Chaosium Con Down Under in May, we're planning a boutique yet captivating convention program that's going to be in parts mythic, epic, heroic and horrific, with Chaosium's favourite games on offer including Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, 7th Sea, HeroQuest, and more.And so we need
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In the next two weekends, Chaosium is coming to two Australian conventions (Melbourne, Canberra)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th Jan 2020
Chaosium will be at Arcanacon this coming weekend, one of Australia's most long-running RPG conventions. And on the Australia Day Weekend (Jan 25-27) Chaosium will be in the national capital for Can Con, another long-standing event in Australian convention schedule. We're running a suite o
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7th Sea RPG to feature as one of the RPGs for New Gamemaster Month; sign up now, be a GM by February
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 17th Dec 2019
We're excited that the 7th Sea RPG is going to be one of the four RPG game systems to feature in January's New Gamemaster Month, run by our friends at Monte Cook Games. 7th Sea creator John Wick himself is on board to navigate newbie GMs through the process!Sign up now, be a GM b
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Geek and Sundry's 'Starter Kit' introduces 7th Sea: now on YouTube
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Nov 2019
Geek and Sundry's Starter Kit series on YouTube introduces the 7th Sea RPG. As Starter Kit host Jason Charles Miller says, "Now there's no one who knows 7th Sea better than John [Wick], because he happens to be the creator of the game." Here in Part One, John helps
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Unnatural Selections #29: Pookie reviews all five of the #weareallus scenarios honoring Greg Stafford
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 14th Oct 2019
Pookie of Reviews from R'lyeh has reviewed all five of our free #weareallus scenario releases honoring Greg Stafford:
Helena Nash's The Rattling Wind (RuneQuest): "A rollicking good scenario... makes for a decent one-shot, but it really works as an interlude scenario, one that is easily insert
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