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Out of the Suitcase #56: Games Workshop and RuneQuest 3rd Edition
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Aug 2026
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium
RuneQuest 2nd edition ranked as one of the best selling RPGs in the UK in the very early 1980s. Only D&D surpassed it in popularity. Games Workshop (GW) sold and distributed
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Out of the Suitcase #55: Rick the Scout, and Rick the Chaosium guy
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Dec 2025
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium
Sometimes I feel my life has two distinct aspects that only occasionally intertwine: Rick the Scout, and Rick the Chaosium guy. In general, the overlap has always been there, as I am a G
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Out of the Suitcase #54: Farewell to Lee Gold's Alarums & Excursions
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th May 2025
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Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.
In June of 1975 – the same year Greg Stafford founded Chaosium – Lee Gold published the first issue of Alarums & Excursions.
Sadly, I just found out that it has ceased
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Out of the Suitcase #53: Collecting rare Chaosium papers and paperwork
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Dec 2024
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I love buying Chaosium-related items that come with their original mailing envelope, because they were often custom branded, especially for Chaosium's in-house magazines. For example, here's the
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Out of the Suitcase #52: Looking at Games Workshop's Mailing Club Newsletters
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Jul 2024
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Many years ago I had the good fortune to purchase a set of the first eight issues of Games Workshop's Mailing Club Newsletters. Suffice it to say that I had never even heard of them before I mov
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Out of the Suitcase #50: Games Workshop's RuneQuest was a cracking good read
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th May 2024
-- The softcover (1989) and hardcover (1987) basic RuneQuest rulebook -- Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I recently read a post asking about Games Workshop RuneQuest 3rd Edition's use of color art. The post featured
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Out of the Suitcase #49: From the Archives - What Almost Never Was...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd May 2024
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I have a feeling that all four of these books are going to be asked about based on their recent appearance on eBay. Back in 2015 we Kickstarted RuneQuest Classic, which ended up raising ove
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Out of the Suitcase #48: 'Good old Burly Bob' - a basic history of Basic Role-Playing
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Jan 2024
-- "Good old Burly Bob" - art by William Church --Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.A few weeks ago during a podcast I answered a number of questions about the fabled “lost” manuscript for Chaosium’s Dark Worlds project (the ill-star
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