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What Julia won as a prize "probably marks the first-ever instance of an inter-familial generational hand-down of an RPG translation"
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 22nd Aug 2021
Chaosium's Julia Rawcliffe won the first prize in the lottery at Niederrheincon in Dinslaken, Germany today! First prize was a copy of Uhrwerk Verlag's new German edition of RuneQuest. The translator of that edition was... er, Julia Rawcliffe.Congratulations to Julia, and to our friends at Uhrwerk V
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ENnies spotlight: A Rough Guide to Glamour - Journey to Jonstown #24
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 21st Aug 2021
Co-author of the ENNIE-nominated A Rough Guide to Glamour Nick Brooke says: "Our book A Rough Guide to Glamour was the first print title and the first Gold best-seller on Chaosium’s Jonstown Compendium community store, which hosts fan-created works for the RuneQuest tabletop role-play
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ENnies 2021 Voting Now Open - our community content creators need your vote!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th Aug 2021
The ENnies are the annual fan-based celebration of excellence in tabletop roleplaying gaming. This year Chaosium itself did not submit any products for consideration as we've won our fair share recently (30 ENnie Awards from 34 nominations in the last five years). But we strongly encouraged&nbs
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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part Six: Debut at Origins '78
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever published a
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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part Five: An Ancient World fantasy
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever published a
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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part Four: Came the Ducks
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever published a
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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part Three: Ha Ha in the basement
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever published a
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Steve Perrin: Creating RuneQuest – Part Two: Any character can do anything
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 15th Aug 2021
For our RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter in 2016 Steve Perrin generously provided a personal account of his role in the genesis of the RuneQuest roleplaying game. Although at the time of the Kickstarter we publicly featured an excerpt of Steve's recollections, the full account was only ever published a
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