Blog
Out of the Suitcase #17: the first Appendix N
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Jul 2021
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
Out of the Suitcase #16: So what's the scoop on Call of Cthulhu Classics?
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Jul 2021
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
Out of the Suitcase #15: The Curse of the Cthulhu Completists...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd Jun 2021
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
Out of the Suitcase #14: Helping Stamp Out the Mythos
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd Jun 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumI happened to come across both of these stamps as I was sifting and sorting through things the other day. I had forgotten that Chaosium had licensed these in 1996. Sadly, Benway Tanner Enterprises of
… read more
Out of the Suitcase #13: Reaching Moon Megacorp – "one of the best decisions I ever made"
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Apr 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium. This entry is taken from his foreword for the recently-released Life of Moonson Book Two: The Freeform, available in the Jonstown Compendium on DriveThruRPG.One of the best decisions I ever mad
… read more
Out of the Suitcase #12: The Chaosium – releases from 1975 and 1976
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 2nd Mar 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumNote: initially, I thought of doing a series of posts showing the products released by the company each year. But 1975 and 1976 were both low volume years for The Chaosium, so I've combined them her
… read more
Out of the Suitcase #11: 1981 a Golden Age for Chaosium? Plus, a solution to Rick's real-life Call of Cthulhu mystery
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Feb 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumI pose the question: was 1981 the Golden Age of Chaosium? While Chaosium has had a number of epic years full of ground-breaking RPG releases, I submit for debate that 1981 was one of the best, if
… read more
Out of the Suitcase #10: can some Investigators help solve this mystery with Library Use...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Feb 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumForty years ago, on Halloween 1981, The Chaosium debuted our Call of Cthulhu RPG on an unsuspecting world. Canadian artist Gene Day, well-known for his work for Marvel Comics, painted the&nb
… read more