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Chaosium games feature prominently in RPG Geek's '50 Greatest RPGs' List
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 31st Dec 2021
So, according to RPG Geek, in their '50 Greatest RPGs' List – as determined last year by RPG Geek Data – Call of Cthulhu is #2, Pendragon is #13, RuneQuest is #16, 7th Sea is #38, BRP is #45, and Stormbringer is #48. That's good going!Note: one factor in the ratings is the number of owners of a
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Chaosium Interviews: Building and breaking Basic Role Playing with Jason Durall
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Mar 2021
Line editor for RuneQuest and all things Basic Roleplaying Jason Durall talks about BRP, and his favorite, and most agonised-over sections of the "Big Gold Book". Jason is talking with Chaosium's James Coquillat
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Chaosium Announces Lords of the Middle Sea Roleplaying Game is in development
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Jul 2020
In 1978, hot on the heels of the release of the revolutionary White Bear, Red Moon strategy game and the RuneQuest roleplaying game, Chaosium Inc. released Lords of the Middle Sea. This was a board war game, set in the post-apocalyptic ruins of a flooded North America, in the year 2401. Lords o
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Announcing the Basic Roleplaying System Reference Document and Open Game License
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Mar 2020
Chaosium is pleased to announce the release of the Basic Roleplaying System Reference Document (SRD).The Basic Roleplaying SRD is based on Basic Roleplaying, the simple, fast, and elegant skill-based percentile system that is the core of most Chaosium roleplaying games, including Call of C
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Chaosium Announces Rivers of London Roleplaying Game
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Nov 2019
Ann Arbor, MI,
November 30, 2019—Chaosium
Inc. and author Ben Aaronovitch are pleased to announce that Chaosium has
acquired the rights to produce the Rivers
of London Roleplaying Game,
based on Aaronovitch’s best-selling urban fantasy fiction chronicling the world
of the Folly. The game will
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Women in Tabletop Gaming Month #9: Chaosium interviews Sarah Newton
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 14th Jun 2018
Lynne Hardy interviews award-winning RPG writer Sarah Newton for Women in Tabletop Gaming MonthSerious ones first:1. What
is your background? Well, I have a number of backgrounds!
Educationally I’m a literature and languages fiend—I studied Russian and German
language and literature at Cambridge
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Chaosium releases Art Submissions Guidelines
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Dec 2017
Chaosium releases are notable for their high quality art and cartography. At the 2017 ENnies, Chaosium releases won awards for Best Cover Art (gold), Best Interior Art (silver), Best Cartography (gold) and Best Production Values (gold), among others. We strive to maintain this award-winning sta
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