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Cthulhu called, and they answered. Acquisitions Incorporated will undertake their most eldritch adventure yet at PAX Aus next weekend! Join Jerry Holkins, Arnie Niecamp, Anna Prosser, and Ryan Hartman, with Kris Straub in the Keeper's Chair on Saturday night at 6.30PM in the Main Theatre and on Twitch. Keeper Kris Straub has created slides introducing each of the Acquisitions Inc Investigators playing Call of Cthulhu live on stage at PAXAus this weekend: Meet Ryan Hartman's character Donald Bleeker, "the pork chop prince of Poughkeepsie"... Meet Anna Prosser's character Evelyn Virginia Margaret Madison, leading light of L.A Thander’s equine rights activist group and all-round goodie-two-shoes. Here's movie actor Charles Priest, Arnie Niecamp's character. Star of stage and screen, and "silent as God intended".... "Discretion our priority, propriety if there's time".... Here's hardened private eye O. Dran, Jerry Holkin''s character for the Acq Inc live play:

And thanks @trystero for making it clear on the RPGGeek thread that the original poster is talking about a book that was published by Chaosium over 18 years ago, lest anyone think this has all happened recently.

Last year at PAX Aus, we were proud to introduce a team of recent Software Engineering grads from MU*, working on a new mythos-themed crypto-asset trading card game. Called Ethernomicon, the game is to be ultimately played on the Etherium Blockchain, a whole new gaming ecosystem that these young students are at the forefront of. The opportunities for existing game companies and their IP is something Chaosium finds intriguing, and we are supporting the MU grads and their new indie game company in their exploration of "on-chain" gaming. In a blockchain first, players will be able to build decks with their trading cards and battle other players on the blockchain to experience the Cosmic Horror of the Cthulhu Mythos like never before. But in order to get there, the next step in the development of the blockchain game is to produce a physical version of the game: details at the link... Update: https://www.chaosium.com/blogethernomicon-creeps-towards-the-light *Monash University

This is an expanded version of the above post, published in Black Gate Magazine. The fact that the first-ever RPG "splat book" (1979) is still considered "vastly innovative" and "one of the best looks at religion ever in an RPG" (Designers & Dragons) is a testament to Greg Stafford and Steve Perrin's enduring creative genius. 'Cults of Prax' was certainly inspirational to me as a teenage RPG creator, and I am very fortunate to have later known and worked with both of them. https://www.blackgate.com/2019/10/06/cults-of-prax-then-and-now

Regarding the recent Wendy's RPG promo, a Chaosium spokesman said, "RED'S GLOBSTER, the popular Innsmouth-based chain of 'seafood' restaurants, offered us a similar deal for Call of Cthulhu, but we had to turn them down. Their marketing dept's promise of 'endless suffering' seemed slightly fishy."

THE TWO-HEADED SERPENT is Drive Thru RPG's Deal of the Day: 60% off! This is an Epic, Action-Packed, and Globe-Spanning 272 page campaign for Pulp Cthulhu, packed with nine adrenalin-fuelled adventures, Keeper advice, gorgeous full-color maps and player handouts.

Julia, our 'merc of merch', has just declared the month of October as CTHULHUWEEN. She'll be adding a new piece of haunting artwork from Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu RPG line to our Redbubble merchandise store every day this month. There are four new pieces up already: check them out here as wall-art, clothing, home decor, and more: https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/collections/1189814-call-of-cthulhu-cthulhuween "Rat Bunting' by Joel Hotzman (from the Free RPG Day 2018 scenario 'Scritch Scratch'). Call of Cthulhu Art for our merc of merch Julia's #cthulhuween, over at our Redbubble store. Julia will be adding a new piece of haunting artwork every day this month! #cthulhuween day 6 - Victor Leza's 'The Beast' from TERROR AUSTRALIS's adventure “Black Water, White Death”: Day #7 of #cthulhuween at our Redbubble store: "The Beacon" by Marcelo Gallegos, from Alone Against the Flames: #cthulhuween day 8: 'The Farmhouse' by Eric Lofgren, from the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set:

Don't forget we also have 7th Sea, Pendragon, and HeroQuest as part of our core lines too.

Our regular Stream of Chaos team, Jamie Coquillat @robopelican, David Naylor @goodshipfuntrip, Rachael Chee @rachael_tad, and Jackson Heenan @Actin_Jackson will be bringing some Call of Cthulhu eldritch horror to Roll20Con 2019. We're excited to have @lukemammoth from @mammothtales coming in as a special guest! And then stay tuned after the game for a special announcement from Roll20...

The Fall semester at Taylor University is in full swing and Mike and Lynne from Chaosium are in the thick of it! They're collaborating with seven Tabletop Game Writing Lab students as they experience an accelerated development of a Call of Cthulhu RPG adventure, which will be published in the Miskatonic Repository. The instructor, Prof TR Knight describes how it is going, and reveals the elevator pitch for the students' scenario. After studying the 'Cryptids and Mysteries of Indiana' and some video-conference sessions with Mike and Lynne, the Taylor U Writing Lab students have devised their scenario pitch: "Refractions of Glasston - A 1920s horror scenario set in Northern Indiana". Looking forward to seeing what they create! https://www.chaosium.com/blogupdate-on-chaosiums-collaboration-with-taylor-universitys-professional-writing-course

We are pleased to announce Michal Lisowski is joining Chaosium as our new director of operations. Michal was previously COO at dice-makers Q-Workshop, and as a founder of Black Monk Games, ran the hugely successful crowdfunding campaign to publish Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition in Polish. Michal's most recent project is CarcosaCon, the international Cthulhu gaming convention in medieval Czocha Castle, Poland. We are delighted to have Michal as part of the team! https://www.chaosium.com/michal-lisowski

Julia, our "merc of merch", has just added a regal collection of King Arthur Pendragon covers to our Redbubble store, spanning the 1st, 3rd and 4th editions of Greg Stafford's masterpiece. https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/collections/1188460-pendragon-classic

We're excited to be participating for the first time in the 'Pinny Arcade' Pin Quest, at PAX Aus, coming up on October 11-13. Our special pin is 'The Cloisonné of Cthulhu', designed by ENnie award-winning artist Andrey Fetisov. Behold! :

Our Call of Cthulhu Keepers were ready for those Oz Comic-con attendees willing to brave our free Call of Cthulhu demo 'The Necropolis'

The scenario is designed for use with the RQG pregens, presented in the RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha core rule book; also available in the RQG Quickstart (which can be downloaded for free). Or you can use your own created characters.

More malignant MALLEUS MONSTRORUM work-in-progress by the amazing Loïc Muzy...Chakota, Cold One, Crawling Ones, Thrall of Cthulhu

Yes, in a few months. If you buy the PDF from Chaosium now, we'll send you a discount coupon just before the physical book goes on sale that offsets the PDF purchase price from the cost of the physical book.

ALONE AGAINST THE FROST is out now in PDF: https://www.chaosium.com/alone-against-the-frost-pdf also available at DTRPG: http://bit.ly/2o1M7al

Details about the free RuneQuest : Roleplaying Glorantha adventure we're releasing on October 10 here: Details about the free HeroQuest Glorantha adventure we're releasing on October 10 here:

Details about the free HeroQuest Glorantha adventure we're releasing on October 10 here:

"On the Alda-Chur road, as a snowstorm sweeps in, a group of strangers find themselves thrown together. On the run from packs of howling ghouls streaming from the Woods of the Dead, they take shelter from the storm at Highwall Inn - the only safe haven along the road. But with all of the travellers carrying secrets, many of them deadly, will any of the strangers survive to see the storm break." A free HeroQuest Glorantha adventure Highwall Inn by Ian Cooper will be released on October 10, marking the first anniversary of the passing of Chaosium founder Greg Stafford. We have also announced free scenarios for 7th Sea, Call of Cthulhu, King Arthur Pendragon, and RuneQuest, all of which will also be available on Oct 10. Chaosium invites gamers to play a game in Greg Stafford's memory (any tabletop game) from Oct 10 - 31, and share the experience with the hashtag #weareallus and the "Greg Stafford Rune".

For those RuneQuesters who like roleplaying Issaries traders, there's interesting #gloranthafuel here: some of the oldest known tablets excavated from the city of Ur are directed at a Mesopotamian merchant named Ea-Nasir who, judging by the sheer number of complaints against him, was "possibly the worst businessman of the second millennium BC." https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/05/11/meet-the-worst-businessman-of-the-18th-century

The book will be out in retail distribution next month. Yes, that is our model. We ship the physical books to our three (soon to be four) warehouses: US, UK, Australia. As soon a book is ready for purchase on our website, Dustin sends out the coupons to everyone who previously bought the PDF from Chaosium.com. The coupon gives the full price of the PDF off the physical book. The PDF is usually released several months earlier, when the final files are ready to go to the printer. You can get the physical book from FLGSs, or other retailers, or Amazon or other on line sellers, too, usually within a month or so of it being available on our website. But to get the PDF included in the price, you have to buy if from Chaosium.com, or from a FLGS that is part of the Bits and Mortar initiative.

Now out in hardback for Pulp Cthulhu from Chaosium.com. A COLD FIRE WITHIN is a six-part campaign set in 1935. A missing persons case leads to the discovery of a foul plot that could change time itself and bring disaster to the world. A cult intent on unleashing the power of the Great Old Ones leaves a trail through the Catskill Mountains and into the very heart of the planet! https://www.chaosium.com/a-cold-fire-within-hardcover

SCAM WARNING: An eBay seller has recently appeared selling illegally reproduced copies of classic RPG books. Among these are some never-legal collections of tournament and/or magazine adventures for Call of Cthulhu, labeled as being published by "Crypt Quest Games" in 1998 and "Copyrighted" by notorious IP thief James L. Shipman II though apparently printed by someone else quite recently, as Shipman himself died in early 2018. These supposedly 'vintage' works are bogus, and use stolen IP. They were not authorised by the original authors or artists, who gain no benefit from their sale. EBAY has been notified about the seller, one 'heracleides' (although the fraudulent works are currently still up and available). We informed Shannon Appelcline of Designers of Dragons, who reported on the earlier scams of Shipman, and he has posted a warning on Facebook too. Note - 'Tatterdemallion' was published as part of Fatal Experiments by Chaosium in 1990, which makes it a bizarre choice to counterfeit in "1998". You can buy the genuine 'Black As Coal' from Noble Knight, as part of BreakOut magazine (1987), and for the same price or cheaper than what the scammer is asking: https://www.nobleknight.com/P/2147356757/27-Fire-Brigade-Call-of-Cthulhu-Module---Black-as-Coal Black as Coal has been extensively rewritten for inclusion in the Polish edition of Call of Cthulhu, to be published by Black Monk Games (the setting switched to Krakow in 1922). The new version will appear in English in due course too.