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Out of the Suitcase #38: 'What happened to RuneQuest' – An unexpected find in the Chaosium vaults
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd Feb 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.An unexpected find... As shared here earlier, Jeremiah Evans and I went through the Chaosium vaults and archives this weekend preparing items for the Chaosium Con 2023 auction. We made
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Out of the Suitcase #37: A recent addition to my collection... 29 years after unknowingly insulting the President of Avalon Hill
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Jan 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.While attending RQ Con 1 in Baltimore way back in January of 1994, I gladly took a small bit of time to wander through the "dealer area." While there, I scanned through everything on offer at the Ava
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Out of the Suitcase #35: From the Archives – Sage Advice from Greg Stafford
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Oct 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.In the late 1970s Greg Stafford ran an ongoing RuneQuest RPG campaign, which generally became known as the "Chaosium house campaign." Many of the earliest Chaosium employees and fans played in i
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Out of the Suitcase #34: (Re)Forging friendships by chance...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Sep 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.One of the best parts about going to various tradeshows and conventions includes making new friends and catching up with old ones. Most shows I manage to take a few moments to chat with Don Reents of
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Out of the Suitcase #33: Collecting and dealing with personal demons...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 1st Sep 2022
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.One of the joys and curses of being a completist collector means you seek out every printing, edition, and variant of each item. The most recent occurrence of this for me relates to the Citadel
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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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