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Out of the Suitcase #53: Collecting rare Chaosium papers and paperwork
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Dec 2024
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I love buying Chaosium-related items that come with their original mailing envelope, because they were often custom branded, especially for Chaosium's in-house magazines. For example, here's the
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Out of the Suitcase #52: Looking at Games Workshop's Mailing Club Newsletters
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 10th Jul 2024
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Many years ago I had the good fortune to purchase a set of the first eight issues of Games Workshop's Mailing Club Newsletters. Suffice it to say that I had never even heard of them before I mov
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Out of the Suitcase #50: Games Workshop's RuneQuest was a cracking good read
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th May 2024
-- The softcover (1989) and hardcover (1987) basic RuneQuest rulebook -- Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.I recently read a post asking about Games Workshop RuneQuest 3rd Edition's use of color art. The post featured
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Out of the Suitcase #49: From the Archives - What Almost Never Was...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd 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 17th 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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