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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part Two: Any character can do anything
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever published a
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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part One: "The Chaosium’s role playing game”
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever p
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Steve Perrin's final design work for RuneQuest was something of a love letter to his wife Luise
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
We were delighted when Steve Perrin joined the design team for the new edition of RuneQuest in 2016. At the time RQG design lead Jeff Richard said, “We want to usher in the newest exploration of Glorantha with a tribute to the masterpiece opus of work that has come before. Part of Ste
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Chaosium congratulates our community content nominees in the 2021 ENnies
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Aug 2021
Chaosium congratulates creators from our Miskatonic Repository and Jonstown Compendium community content programs who received nominations in this year's ENnie awards!2021 Nominees – Best Organised Play (Community Content)
A Rough Guide to Glamour (Jonstown Compendium) – Chris G
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Journey to Jonstown #23 - helpful resources for your RuneQuest campaigns in the Jonstown Compendium
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Aug 2021
Are you a Gamesmaster looking for new scenarios and story elements? A player looking for something mysterious to spark a character idea? Is your group looking for more Gloranthan goodness to use in your game? The Jonstown Compendium is where you can find —and create —self-published material for your
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Journey to Jonstown #22 - plenty to play on the Jonstown Compendium!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd Aug 2021
More great community content on the Jonstown Compendium: here's a whole lot of new adventures for RuneQuest!Holiday Dorastor: The Temple of HeadsSimon Phipp, Leon Kirshtein, Nikk Effingham, Tal Meta ($17.00, 151 PDF)The Temple of Heads is the first instalment of Holiday Dorastor, a look at inte
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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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Chaosium Interviews: Art Direction in Glorantha with Jaye Kovach
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Jul 2021
Chaosium's art director Jaye Kovach talks with James Coquillat about the process of creating art for Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha, setting our RuneQuest RPG. Part of our Chaosium Interviews series on YouTube.
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