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Out of the Suitcase #28: How 'Beyond the Pass' became Griffin Mountain
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Jan 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I played through Griffin Mountain in the summer of 1981 shortly after it was published. It's my favorite RuneQuest campaign. Here's the story about how Griffin Mountain came to be
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Out of the Suitcase #26: Chaosium's first Arthurian game - King Arthur's Knights
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Dec 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.In late 1978 Chaosium published King Arthur's Knights by Greg Stafford. It was to be our sixth and final new board game for almost a decade (until Arkham Horror in 1987). For $9.95 you got a zip-lock
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Journey to Jonstown #30 - Greg Stafford Award-winning 'The Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass' now available in print format
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Nov 2021
Best-selling Jonstown Compendium title The Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass is now available in print format! This 388 page work is the magnum opus of 2019 Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom recipient Martin Helsdon. It was one of the inaugural releases in C
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Artist Katrin Dirim is the 2021 recipient of the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Oct 2021
The Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom was established in November 2018 in memory of Chaosium's revered founder and original creative visionary Greg Stafford. With the blessing of Greg's family Chaosium will occasionally and irregularly present the award to recognise a significant an
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Out of the Suitcase #23: Facing the facts of a chaotic past...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Oct 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Just the other day we had a fan ask about the Chaosium "Dragon" logo and why it didn't always have the dragon facing to the left on our products. While a short answer was given, there's a bit more to
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We Are All Us: play one of our free adventures to honor Greg Stafford's legacy
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Oct 2021
Chaosium founder Greg Stafford passed away on October 10th, 2018, in his sweat lodge at his home in Arcata, CA. He died as he lived, on a spiritual quest of enlightenment.To honor Greg Stafford's legacy and with his family's blessing, we encourage you to play a tabletop game from October 10 to Octob
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Pendragon Design Journal #2: Bringing the Light in Sixth Edition
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 29th Sep 2021
By David Larkins, Pendragon line editor.A new edition of the Pendragon RPG is coming! The intention of this series of design journals by Pendragon line editor David Larkins is to trace the path of development, starting in the early 1980s and culminating with the forthcoming new edition of the Pendra
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Pendragon Design Journal #1: Where It All Began
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Aug 2021
By David Larkins, Pendragon line editor.A new edition of the Pendragon RPG is coming! The intention of this series of design journals by Pendragon line editor David Larkins is to trace the path of development, starting in the early 1980s and culminating with the forthcoming new edition of
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