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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

Take your Game Master skills to the next level as our panel of expert GMs share with you the tips and tricks to writing scenarios, running games, and making your game the best it can be!This is a recording of a live panel from PAX Australia, shot in early October 2025. Chaosium's Brian Holland and M … 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

Award winning TTRPG writer Mark Morrison is renowned for his work for Call of Cthulhu (Horror on the Orient Express etc), and is also our community content ambassador for the Pendragon roleplaying game, supporting independent creators in our 'Companions of Arthur' community cont … 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