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Award winning TTRPG writer Mark Morrison is renowned for his work for Call of Cthulhu (Horror on the Orient Express etc), and is also our community content ambassador for the Pendragon roleplaying game, supporting independent creators in our 'Companions of Arthur' community cont … read more

By Mark Morrison I had a long sleepless night in 1982: I’d just read RuneQuest after playing it with my friend Mark Holsworth and it was a much, much better game than Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. But everyone played AD&D. What was I to do? Given that I’m writing this on the Cha … read more

By Mark Morrison You never forget the first time you run a game of Call of Cthulhu. If I close my eyes, I can still picture the room: Candles burning, all else in darkness. My friends sitting around the table, leaning in to hear properly as I quietly describe the body. As the description ends I bec … read more

We've started a new series of posts on the Chaosium blog called 'Table Tales', by Chaosium's Mark Morrison. Table Tales is all about the fun of playing Chaosium games, and Mark has pretty much played them all, or close to it. For many, Mark perhaps needs little introduction: he goes way back with C … 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

By Mark Morrison You were living your life, and one day everything changed. Maybe it started with a ripple in the South Pacific. Perhaps a wave broke as strange statuary surfaced on an uncharted island. Before you could stop it, a nightmare of wings and tentacles and doom rose from the depths.In ot … read more

By Mark Morrison Age of Vikings by my dear friend Pedro Ziviani is my new favourite roleplaying game. It’s out now from Chaosium. It’s also, in a way, my old favourite RPG. Back in the 1990s Penny ran a wonderful RuneQuest Vikings campaign, which I remember with such fondness that whe … read more

  Join host Bridgett Jeffries and David Larkins and Mark Morrison, as they discuss the Pendragon Gamemaster's Handbook, now available for pre-order. Watch here:   Preorder Today! The preorder is live! Preorder the Pendragon: Gamemaster's Handbook and receive the PDF right away! Dive … read more