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By Mark Morrison I’ve kicked off my Gaming New Year with the thunder of hooves: over the break I plotted my first RuneQuest convention scenario in (cough) 35 years and, to make up for lost time, promptly ran it five times in seven days!  The playtest with my home group went well, and the … read more

By Mark Morrison With all my gaming groups I’ve always tried to run a special themed game as the last one of the year. There’s something about getting together just before the holidays that brings on a special mood: eating great snacks, exchanging small gifts, reflecting on how much we& … read more

By Mark Morrison Basic Roleplaying: Creatures is out now. It’s a dangerous tome which adds 170 pages of monsters, animals and NPCs to Basic Roleplaying, and therefore to every other Chaosium game built on its fine bones. Our most popular game happens to have a lot to do with bones, mostly dig … read more

By Mark Morrison I won’t lie to you. When I saw Jason Durall's sneaky photo of a huge stack of the new Basic Roleplaying: Creatures book making its pre-release debut at Essen, my first thought was “I can’t wait to attack my players with those things.” There’s some … read more

By Mark Morrison I had a long sleepless night in 1982: I’d just read RuneQuest after playing it with my friend Mark Holsworth and it was a much, much better game than Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. But everyone played AD&D. What was I to do? Given that I’m writing this on the Cha … read more

By Mark Morrison You never forget the first time you run a game of Call of Cthulhu. If I close my eyes, I can still picture the room: Candles burning, all else in darkness. My friends sitting around the table, leaning in to hear properly as I quietly describe the body. As the description ends I bec … read more

We've started a new series of posts on the Chaosium blog called 'Table Tales', by Chaosium's Mark Morrison. Table Tales is all about the fun of playing Chaosium games, and Mark has pretty much played them all, or close to it. For many, Mark perhaps needs little introduction: he goes way back with C … read more

By Mark Morrison Behold, a new header graphic appears! Thanks to our talented graphic designer Monika Godyń for assembling this wonderful collage from covers by Loïc Muzy for Pendragon, Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest and Basic Roleplaying, along with Ossi Hiekkala's cover for Age of Vikings. So, … read more