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Table Tales: A long-awaited gem
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th Feb 2026
By Mark Morrison
Stealing the Eye is out this week in PDF. It’s a heist adventure for RuneQuest written by Todd Gardiner. It’s huge fun, and a perfect one-night session for both new players and seasoned Gloranthan veterans. Four pre-generated player characters are included, but it works
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Table Tales: Putting the Runes into RuneQuest
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 3rd Feb 2026
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
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Table Tales - Happy Holiday Adventures
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 20th Dec 2025
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&
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Leveling Up - PAX 2025
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Nov 2025
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
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Table Tales: Basic Roleplaying Creatures to terrorise your Call of Cthulhu investigators
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 24th Nov 2025
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
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Table Tales - BRP Creatures: something monstrous this way comes
Posted by Brian Holland on 10th Nov 2025
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
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"The most beautiful box set in the history of the roleplaying game art form"
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 4th Nov 2025
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
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Table Tales: Coming back to Glorantha
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Oct 2025
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
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