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Coming in March: a new cover for The Glorantha Sourcebook
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th Nov 2023
Coming in March 2024, a new cover for The Glorantha Sourcebook! This new cover by the award-winning Chaosium staff artist Loïc Muzy features iconic characters from Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. This edition contains revised, updated, and expanded content drawn from a variety of
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"RuneQuest Official Guru" t-shirt from 1994 has been lovingly recreated
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Nov 2023
If you were lucky, you might have got one of these at the first RuneQuestCon, held in Baltimore MD in January 1994 (Avalon Hill Game Company vice president Eric Dott was handing them out). Now – with one heartfelt addition* – here’s a replica of that very t-shirt. Thanks to uber-RQ fan Edward J
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Journey to Jonstown #64: Milestone for RuneQuest creators – 50,000 sales on the Jonstown Compendium!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Oct 2023
Today marks a significant milestone – we just sold our 50,000th product on the Jonstown Compendium!Established in December 2019, the Jonstown Compendium is Chaosium's platform on DriveThruRPG for independent creators of gaming material for Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha and the RuneQue
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Out of the Suitcase #45: RuneQuest Advertising in (The) General...
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Oct 2023
The above RQ3 advert is from The General Vol. 25, No. 2, page 5 (1989).Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.A few days ago I was asked about the Avalon Hill staff that worked on RuneQuest 3rd Edition (RQ3) products. From 1984 through 19
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Mark Smylie is the 2023 recipient of the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Oct 2023
The Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom was established in November 2018 in memory of Chaosium's revered founder and original creative visionary Greg Stafford. With the blessing of Greg's family Chaosium will occasionally and irregularly present the award to recognise a significant an
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Out now in hardcover - Cults of RuneQuest: Mythology
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Oct 2023
Cults of RuneQuest: Mythology168 pages, full color hardcover – $39.99*Also available in special leatherette version (a Chaosium.com exclusive) – $90.00*And at DriveThruRPG – $18.99*price includes PDF when purchased direct from Chaosium.com and Friendly Local Game Stores that are part of th
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Chaosium Interviews: Improvising a Scenario, with Jeff Richard
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 9th Oct 2023
Your players arrive in one hour. What do you need to know to run a RuneQuest scenario?Chaosium's Jeff Richard shares some advice on how to quickly build a beginner RuneQuest scenario. He's talking to James Coquillat for our 'Chaosium Interviews' series on YouTube.
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RuneQuest community creators win at the 2023 Australian Role-Playing Industry Awards
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 5th Oct 2023
Congratulations to community creators Neil Gibson and Drew Baker, whose Jonstown Compendium RuneQuest title Highways and Byways - A Wayfarer's Companion won Best Cartography at this year's Australian Role-Playing Industry (ARPIA) Awards! Neil is shown here with their award. And c
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