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Out of the Suitcase #8: the 20th Anniversary Edition Call of Cthulhu Rulebook
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 14th Feb 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumThe Call of Cthulhu RPG turned 20 in 2001. In August that year Chaosium produced a special edition "leatherette" binding of the 5th edition rulebook (5.6 if you want to be precise). The
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Out of the Suitcase #7: for completists, collectors, catalogers, and the curious...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 5th Feb 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumThese shelves are just a part of Rick's Chaosium ArchivesFor completists, collectors, catalogers, and the curious, there are various online resources that seek to catalogue Chaosium's Call of Cth
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Out of the Suitcase #6: Maps and Legends
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 30th Jan 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumI was sorting through some things when I came across these original maps from 1979. Drawn by William Church, they debuted in the 2nd edition RuneQuest Rulebook. For years they were tacked up on Greg's
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Out of the Suitcase #5: The Meints Index to Glorantha, aka the MiG
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 25th Jan 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium In 1999 the Reaching Moon Megacorp published the second edition of my book The Meints Index to Glorantha (MiG for short). The MiG included cover pictures and text descriptions for everythin
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Out of the Suitcase #3: Sometimes things are less dicey than they seem...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Jan 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumBelieve it or not, the scholarly pursuit of understanding and cataloging the specific color of the dice included in each Chaosium boxed set has been seriously undertaken by more than one gaming histor
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Out of the Suitcase #2: Ducks, Ducks, and more Ducks
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Dec 2020
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium Over on the RuneQuest Facebook group there's been a wonderful, fragmented discussion of the origins of Ducks in Glorantha recently. I thought I'd spend a little free time writing down what
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Out of the Suitcase #1: Jack O'Bears and Me
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Dec 2020
Chaosium President Rick Meints's stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium 'Out of the Suitcase' is a new regular series of posts from Chaosium President Rick Meints. An avid RPG collector, his love of all of Chaosium's publications, plus anything Gloranthan or Ru
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