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Designing the New RuneQuest - Part 8(Post)
By Jeff Richard Jumping into the setting with Family Background As talked about in the previous designer notes, I'm not a big fan of the "zeroes to heroes" trope. I prefer playing and gamemastering ch
Women in Tabletop Gaming Month #10: Chaosium interviews Kat Birmelin(Post)Lynne Hardy interviews artist Kat Birmelin for Women in Tabletop Gaming MonthSerious ones first:1. What is your background? I hold a BFA in commercial illustration from the American Academy of Art,
Out of the Suitcase #45: RuneQuest Advertising in (The) General...(Post)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 a
Miskatonic Monday #55: Hometown Horrors and more(Post)It's Miskatonic Monday – check out these latest releases from independent Call of Cthulhu community creators!Call of Cthulhu: Hometown Horrors, Vol. 1Evan Perlman, Elizabeth Hildick, Mei Kurakake, Meg
Miskatonic Mentions #108: The Story of the Scorched Sigil and more(Post)We've renamed the long-running series "Miskatonic Monday" to "Miskatonic Mentions" so we don't have keep waiting for Mondays to come round to post! More new releases in the Miskatonic Repository, our
Chaosium's 2018 ENnies Success: thanks to all the creative teams(Post)Chaosium had a great night at the 2018 ENnies Awards at Gen Con, picking up four Gold and two Silver awards from nine nominations. Many thanks to the ENnies judging panel for shortlisting our work for
Miskatonic Monday #80: The Art of Hygge and other new community content releases for Call of Cthulhu (Post)In addition to a beguilingly splendid cover, Poul Holmelund's modern Call of Cthulhu scenario The Art of Hygge features a Spotify playlist tailored to generate a thematic experience as you play it. It
Miskatonic Monday #81 - Journey to Jonstown #63: Nick's 10,000 pages of printed classic and community content!(Post)Our indefatigable community ambassador Nick Brooke is celebrating a personal milestone today: Simon Bray's Jonstown Compendium release Furthest, Crown Jewel of Lunar Tarsh is the 100th print-on-demand
Designing the New RuneQuest - Part 4(Post)Rune Magic!By Jeff RichardAs we've said before, a key goal of the new RuneQuest is to tie the mechanics into the setting of Glorantha and incentivize immersion and role-playing. At the top of the list
Metal Milestones #2 – celebrating significant sales by our community creators at DriveThruRPG(Post)Our community content programs at DriveThruRPG enable fans to self-publish material for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Age of Vikings, and Pendragon TTRPGs. Independent creators can offer t
Selkana's Saga #8 - Welcome to the mountains, we’ve got fun and games, Part 1(Post)Selkana’s Saga is a Chaosium blog series by Ellie and Scott Akers, following a long-format roleplaying campaign using the RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha system.Ellie: It is the beginning of Earth
Designing the New RuneQuest - Part 2(Post)By Jeff RichardAs we started to develop the design goals of the new RuneQuest, Ken Rolston, Chris Klug, and I had a discussion about "what are the key features of RQ"? Here are some of the conclusions