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Basic Roleplaying: Creatures collects animals, monsters, nonhumans, and nonplayer characters drawn from history, science fiction, fantasy, prehistory, mythology, and the modern world, allowing for any gamemaster to use them in any D100-based game. Coming soon! Create. Explore. Play. Basic Roleplayi … read more

By Mark Morrison Behold, a new header graphic appears! Thanks to our talented graphic designer Monika Godyń for assembling this wonderful collage from covers by Loïc Muzy for Pendragon, Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest and Basic Roleplaying, along with Ossi Hiekkala's cover for Age of Vikings. So, … read more

'The Cursed Farm' is a demo scenario that introduces Age of Vikings, our new roleplaying game of adventuring in Iceland in the year 977 AD, the era of the Icelandic sagas. Players are heroes, landowners trying to earn fame and glory in a world full of magic, monsters, and myth! Download for free f … read more

We were delighted to hear today that In Death, one of the top ten finalists in our 2024 BRP Design Challenge, has officially released on Itch.io. Created using the Basic Roleplaying Universal Game Engine rules and released under the ORC license, In Death is a tabletop roleplaying game about what be … read more

. Svörtu Tungurnar ('The Black Tongues') played a live game of our new Age of Vikings TTRPG at the official launch event in Iceland  in May this year! That's a delighted Pedro Ziviani, author of Age of Vikings, in the foreground, with the Black Tongues cast. . As befitting an eve … read more

Available as a free download from Chaosium.com and DriveThruRPG: Powering some of the most influential and celebrated roleplaying games of all time, Basic Roleplaying is presented here in an easy-to-use, intuitive, and accessible quickstart. The system is at the heart of Call of Cthulhu,  … read more

It's Free RPG Day 2025, and we're taking part! At participating Friendly Local Game Stores around the world pick up your copy of the The Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine Quickstart. Powering some of the most influential and celebrated roleplaying games of all time, the Basic Roleplaying sys … read more

Free RPG Day is coming up on June 21st, and Chaosium is taking part! This year we're releasing the Basic Roleplaying Quickstart Rules. Powering some of the most influential and celebrated roleplaying games of all time, the Basic Roleplaying system is presented here as an easy-to-use, intuitive, and … read more