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Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.While the 40th Anniversary of Call of Cthulhu is almost upon us, it debuted in November of 1981 and had little time to become widely-known before the end of the year. But Chaosium produced a bum … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Steve Perrin's unexpected passing has gotten me to thinking about his far-reaching legacy within the world of role-playing games. As I ponder his role in those early days I find myself pulling v … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I recently got asked "what are some of the rare or obscure items in your collection?" I have a number of unique items, and it's hard to pick just one. Last night I was writing about one of them for m … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Every so often we get a wonderful completist collector of Chaosium games ask us about some of our product numbers that never got used. One of the earliest ones we skipped was CHA2341 in the Call of C … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.A last minute request pleasantly shifted some of my work priorities recently. Many of our current projects mine our vast library of prior Chaosium publications for inspiration and depth of material. … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Recently the Grognardia blog wrote about the strange serendipity between the bibliography in RuneQuest, which came out in 1978, and the bibliography in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Masters … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.With the recent launch of our Kickstarter a lot of people have been asking what's scoop on Call of Cthulhu Classics? Since I did a lot of the work, I am happy to explain...We scanned in nea … read more

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium. As I was preparing for our 40th Anniversary reprinting of the Call of Cthulhu Classic boxed set I started to notice something. Between 1981 and 1989 Chaosium printed the Call of Cthul … read more