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Out of the Suitcase #47: Another Martian Metals Mystery...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 16th Nov 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Last week I posted about discovering a previously unknown to me article by Greg Stafford, 'Broos of Glorantha'. It had featured in a 1986 edition of The Partha Pipeline, a newsletter released by
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Out of the Suitcase #46: The Partha Pipeline still flows
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 12th Nov 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I assembled most of my Ral Partha miniatures collection in the late 1990s. Between eBay and the wonderful Leisure Games store in North London (Finchley) I purchased them all just after the Ral Partha
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Out of the Suitcase #45: RuneQuest Advertising in (The) General...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Oct 2023
The above RQ3 advert is from The General Vol. 25, No. 2, page 5 (1989).Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.A few days ago I was asked about the Avalon Hill staff that worked on RuneQuest 3rd Edition (RQ3) products. From 1984 through 19
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Out of the Suitcase #44: "Kay-OH-see-um" or "Kay-OS-ee-um"?
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Sep 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.While chatting after a team meeting this week someone mentioned how different people on the team pronounced our company name in different ways. I mentioned that many years ago Chaosium ran a somewhat
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Out of the Suitcase #43: An unexpected magazine ad - part II...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Aug 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.In my previous Out of the Suitcase post, thought I'd written the complete story of that "one off" Glorantha ad from the Best of the Dragon - volume I (1980). However a Chaosium colleague, t
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Out of the Suitcase #42: An unexpected magazine ad
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Aug 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I enjoy discovering unknown gems in unexpected places. The latest discovery came via a facebook collector's forum colleague, and it qualifies as a "never thought to look there" event. Of all places,
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Out of the Suitcase #41: If 12 year old me would have known...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Apr 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I used to go to a fair number of model railroad shows with my father back in the mid to late '70s, including the Ann Arbor show in 1978. Alas, I had no clue about the other "show" that would be in An
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Out of the Suitcase #40: What Never Was... (mostly)
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Mar 2023
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.One of the down sides of most of collecting RPG magazines is that most of the ones from the 70s through the 90s were published before PDFs and other electronic formats were commonly in use. Thus, you
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