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Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.All RPG publishers struggle with getting the rules for the first editions of their games right. No matter how much you playtest and refine the rules, perfection remains elusive. RPG players love to f … read more

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 … read more

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 … read more

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 … read more

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 … read more

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 … read more

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 … read more

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 … read more