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Out of the Suitcase #44: "Kay-OH-see-um" or "Kay-OS-ee-um"?
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd 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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Out of the Suitcase #39: Errata: a lesson on how change can be difficult...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Feb 2023
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
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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 4th 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 12th 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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