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Out of the Suitcase #32: A quirky game company, indeed; plus Rick talks to the God Learners
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd Apr 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I was trying to clean up and file away a bunch of papers on my desk last recently when I came upon an Avalon Hill catalog from September of 1983. I wondered if it would mention anything about RuneQue
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Out of the Suitcase #31: Cults of Prax, One for the Ages...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Mar 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I can't imagine playing RuneQuest in Glorantha without Cults of Prax. Fortunately, when our GM Tim Webster introduced us to the game he already owned it. Cults of Prax and the RuneQues
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Out of the Suitcase #30: A few jokes at Glorantha’s expense
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Feb 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.The back side of the Jan/Feb 1981 Chaosium order form included a few Gloranthan themed jokes. I don’t think these were ever published elsewhere. Fortunately, they are as corny now as they were 40 yea
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Out of the Suitcase #29: Kids, that's how layout was done back in those days...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd Feb 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.A relic from The Chaosium archives... I came across the original layout board for page 134 of 1990's Cthulhu Casebook. This is the Star Elder Sign – which first appeared as the 'Arcane Symbol' in Cal
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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 #25: As Authentic as Thaumaturgy can get…
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th Nov 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Before The Grand Grimoire there was... Authentic ThaumaturgyIn the late 1970s Chaosium founder Greg Stafford sometimes helped other individuals get their projects published. The eclectic mi
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Out of the Suitcase #24: Wherein the back cover gets finished...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Nov 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Last night after dinner I took another pass over the text for the back cover of my collector's and reference guide to all things RuneQuest and Glorantha. This is the third edition of The Me
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Out of the Suitcase #23: Facing the facts of a chaotic past...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 14th 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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