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Chaosium Interviews: Rick Meints on running a TTRPG Publishing House
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Jun 2021
Rick Meints, President of Chaosium, talks more about his role as head of production, and what work goes on behind the scenes at a TTRPG publishing house. James Coquillat is the interviewer for our 'Chaosium Interviews' series.
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Chaosium Interviews: How to Build a TTRPG Book with Rick Meints
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Jun 2021
James Coquillat talks with Rick Meints, Chaosium President and head of production, about the process of putting successful TTRPG books together. The latest of our Chaosium Interviews series on YouTube.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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