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Chaosium Interviews: When to Write Niche, with David Larkins
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 17th Sep 2023
How narrow is too narrow for the focus of a story? Pendragon line editor David Larkins talks about writing for a fixed niche, be it the Knights of King Arthur or the eldritch horrors lurking in 1920s Berlin.
David is talking to James Coquillat as part of our Chaosium Inter
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Chaosium Interviews: Unkillable Monsters, with Mike Mason
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 12th Sep 2023
What is the most powerful Call of Cthulhu creature you’ve defeated? In this Chaosium Interview, Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason talks about how including unkillable enemies in your games can change their dynamic. Mike is talking to James Coquillat.Catch all the interviews in t
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Chaosium Interviews: Critiquing RPGs
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Sep 2023
What are the differences between critical analysis of movies versus TTRPGs? Creative director Jeff Richard talks to James Coquillat about media criticism and how movies or music criticism varies from TTRPGs!.Part of our Chaosium Interviews series on YouTube.
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Chaosium Interviews: Settingless Content, with Jason Durall
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Sep 2023
Is it easier to write for a complex established setting or to invent content for a blank slate? In this Chaosium Interview with Jason Durall, creative director of RuneQuest and all things Basic Roleplaying, he talks to James Coquillat about how to write content for generic settings!BR
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Chaosium Interviews: Globetrotting in Call of Cthulhu, with Mike Mason
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd Sep 2023
In this Chaosium Interview, Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason discusses how your Investigators can move around the world and what globetrotting brings to your campaign! He's talking with James Coquillat.
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Chaosium Interviews: Shapeshifters, with Mike Mason
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Aug 2023
Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason discusses shapeshifters and how you can incorporate them into your games. This is of our part of our Chaosium Interviews series on YouTube with James Coquillat.
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Chaosium Interviews: Lynne Hardy on Building a Magic System for Rivers of London
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th Aug 2023
Line editor Lynne Hardy talks about building a magic system for the TTRPG adaption of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London.Lynne is talking with Chaosium's James Coquillat as part of our Chaosium Interviews series.
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Chaosium Interviews: Pirates and Swashbucklers
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd Aug 2023
7th Sea creator John Wick talks to James Coquillat about the swashbuckling genre and pirates in fiction. Part of our Chaosium Interviews series.
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