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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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People are still (very sensibly) staying in and gaming – so our 'Stay In and Game' Warehouse Clearance Sale is continuing into 2021!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Jan 2021
Around the world people are still (very sensibly) staying in and gaming – so our 'Stay In and Game' Warehouse Clearance Sale that we kicked off late last year is continuing into 2021!
We've now emptied our different warehouses of various clearance items, and those titles are now offi
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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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Chaosium welcomes Simeon Cogswell and Matt Ryan to the team
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Jan 2021
We are pleased to welcome two new members to the Chaosium team: Simeon Cogswell (above left) as in-house layout artist and graphic designer, and Matt Ryan (above right) as in-house cartographer. Simeon's layout and design work can be seen in our RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glo
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2020 was a big year for Chaosium on DriveThruRPG: here's everything we released
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Jan 2021
2020 was a big year for Chaosium on DriveThruRPG! Over the course of the year, we released 17 titles there: eleven new releases, and six older Chaosium works that somehow had never made it to DriveThruRPG before. Here they all are in case there's something you missed for your DriveThruRPG
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Out of the Suitcase #4: cataloging a bit of Chaosium history
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 13th Jan 2021
Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things ChaosiumLast Saturday, during an informal discussion about Chaosium history on Discord, I briefly mentioned the old Chaosium catalogs and what wonderful information they contain. The catalogs provid
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