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Out of the Suitcase #49: From the Archives - What Almost Never Was...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th May 2024
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I have a feeling that all four of these books are going to be asked about based on their recent appearance on eBay. Back in 2015 we Kickstarted RuneQuest Classic, which ended up raising ove
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Out of the Suitcase #48: 'Good old Burly Bob' - a basic history of Basic Role-Playing
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Jan 2024
-- "Good old Burly Bob" - art by William Church --Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.A few weeks ago during a podcast I answered a number of questions about the fabled “lost” manuscript for Chaosium’s Dark Worlds project (the ill-star
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Unnatural Selections #79: 'There should be a book like this for every RPG line'
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th Jan 2024
The 'Unnatural Selections' series is our regular round up of notable Chaosium reviews worth a look. MIG3: The Meints Index to Glorantha (aka MIG3), contains an exhaustive catalog of RuneQuest and Glorantha titles and related products. This new edition covers everything published for RuneQu
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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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Chaosium's Rick Meints, Jeff Richard and Mike Mason are special guests at GameHoleCon, Oct 19-22
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 17th Sep 2023
Gamehole Con takes place in Madison WI on October 19-22, and Chaosium's Rick Meints, Jeff Richard and Mike Mason are all special guests. You can catch Rick, Jeff and Mike running games, participating in panels, and at our booth in the dealer hall. Rick is also honoured to be one of the auc
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