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Out of the Suitcase #23: Facing the facts of a chaotic past...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 14th Oct 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Just the other day we had a fan ask about the Chaosium "Dragon" logo and why it didn't always have the dragon facing to the left on our products. While a short answer was given, there's a bit more to
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Out of the Suitcase #22: Thieves' World - A Classic Case of being 'The Chaosium', not 'The Orderium'...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Oct 2021
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
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Out of the Suitcase #21: The first Manual of Monsters
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Aug 2021
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
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Out of Suitcase #20: The art of obscure finds...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th Aug 2021
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
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Out of the Suitcase #19: Another Mystery Solved... CHA2341
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Aug 2021
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
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Out of the Suitcase #18: What Perilous Encounters await our heroes...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th Aug 2021
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.
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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
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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
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