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Chaosium's Lynne Hardy and Nick Nacario were among the panellists at Necromonicon's "Victory at Home and Beyond: Investigators for Social Equality" panel, discussing how do we create stories that are true to the bleak Mythos vision of the universe while still telling diverse stories that represent everyone in cosmic horror? The other panelists are Gwen Callahan of the HP Lovecraft Film Festival, Oscar Rios from Golden Goblin Press, Jeffrey Moeller of Stygian Fox, and Andrew Leman from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society. http://www.legendsoftabletop.com/?p=4418

I personally won't be at Essen this year but we will have a booth there, and Rick, Neil, Jeff, Jason, and Julia will be there from the team. And plenty of books for you to pick up!

A follow-up note from our customer support specialist Dustin, about our Critical Role-induced sales explosion and subsequent shipping delays in August: "Since our North American shipper dropped the shoggoth so to speak we want to make amends regardless of whether your specific order was delayed or not ...we take care of our tribe. So, everyone who made an order directly at Chaosium.com in the month of August is getting a special reward because there is a good (sucky) chance that your order was delayed. We hate this. You deserve better than that." TLDR - due to Critical Role's The Shadow of the Crystal Palace, our North American fulfilment warehouse had a tsunami of orders wash over them, and looked up to see R’lyeh give them no solace. Here's what we're doing to make amends for the shipping delays: everyone who ordered directly from Chaosium.com in August either gets a free PDF of Alone Against the Dark or a $10 discount coupon. More details from Dustin at the link: https://www.chaosium.com/bloga-note-from-dustin-ii-august-was-crazy-and-heres-what-were-doing-for-you-to-say-thanks-for-your-patience

That the Cult of the Black Sun is a homage to the schlock horror films of "Grandfather of Gore" Herschell Gordon Lewis: Theory confirmed! http://rpgreview.net/mob/inspiration.htm

The Jonstown Compendium does not permit creators to update or convert scenarios or stat blocks from existing works published by Chaosium (nor does the Miskatonic Repository) – if you're interested in doing that, we advise you to email us about such things as a pitch via the Chaosium submissions page. However, a sequel (or even a prequel) would be possible, provided it has more original content than the previously published content that is referenced. Yes Correct. Such an approach would be absolutely fine.

Congrats to Miskatonic Repository creator Marek Golonka, whose Call of Cthulhu scenario 'Shepherd of Moths' reached silver status yesterday on DriveThruRPG, 10 days after release!

To mark the anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, we encourage Chaosium fans and gamers in general to play a tabletop game from October 10 to October 31 in his memory. To that end we'll be releasing a set of new free adventures for all our major game systems, including 7TH SEA. Details about these scenarios in the coming weeks. More information here:

To mark the anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, we encourage Chaosium fans and gamers in general to play a tabletop game from October 10 to October 31 in his memory. To that end we'll be releasing a set of new free adventures for all our major game systems, including HEROQUEST GLORANTHA. Details about these scenarios in the coming weeks. More information here:

To mark the anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, we encourage Chaosium fans and gamers in general to play a tabletop game from October 10 to October 31 in his memory. To that end we'll be releasing a set of new free adventures for all our major game systems, including his beloved KING ARTHUR PENDRAGON. Details about these scenarios in the coming weeks. More information here:

To mark the anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, we encourage Chaosium fans and gamers in general to play a tabletop game from October 10 to October 31 in his memory. To that end we'll be releasing a set of new free adventures for all our major game systems, including CALL OF CTHULHU. Details about these scenarios in the coming weeks. More information here:

To mark the anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, we encourage Chaosium fans and gamers in general to play a tabletop game from October 10 to October 31 in his memory. To that end we'll be releasing a set of new free adventures for all our major game systems, including RUNEQUEST. Details about these scenarios in the coming weeks. More information here:

To mark the anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, we encourage Chaosium fans and gamers in general to play a tabletop game from October 10 to October 31 in his memory. To that end we'll be releasing a set of new free adventures for all our major game systems, including RUNEQUEST and HEROQUEST GLORANTHA. Details about these scenarios in the coming weeks. More information here:

OCTOBER 10 is the first anniversary of the passing Chaosium founder Greg Stafford, the 'grand shaman of gaming'. As one of the greatest game designers of all time; winner of too many awards to count; and a friend, mentor, guide, and inspiration to generations of gamers, Greg Stafford influenced the universe of tabletop gaming beyond measure. To honor his legacy and with Greg's family's blessing, we encourage Chaosium fans and gamers in general to play a tabletop game from October 10 to October 31 in remembrance of Greg. On October 10 Chaosium will be releasing a set of new free adventures for all our major game systems (RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu, King Arthur Pendragon, 7th Sea, HeroQuest) you can play. We'll release details about these scenarios in the coming weeks. Or play any of Greg's games, or a game he influenced (that scope is **wide**) Or play any game at all - as Greg said in his last public speech at the 2018 ENnies, the gaming industry only exists because of your enthusiasm and support. We at Chaosium recognise that countless RPG fans are fans (including us!) because of Greg Stafford and what he achieved. Feel free to share an image of your game on social media or at BRP Central, with the hashtag #WeAreAllUs. Show the "Greg Rune" (aka the Sartar Rune) in your post - copy and print the image here, or from Redbubble (all "Greg Rune" merchandise is currently available at cost, with no artist margin). What better way to honor his legacy than getting your friends together and playing a game in remembrance of him! We would like to again share the final words from the obituary by Greg Stafford's family: To honor Greg’s memory the family requests, in lieu of flowers, that you strike up a conversation with someone you don’t know, go somewhere you haven’t been, face a personal challenge head on, read about something new, and enjoy life. We are all us." #WeAreAllUs.

Should be fine. Yes. We are also making the Argan Argar Atlas available to Jonstown Compendium creators. You will have permission to excerpt and overlay maps with trails, locations etc.

By virtue of being here, you are now one of the BRP Central folk. If you want to start on it now, send me an email as noted above and I'll send you the files.

If you took it down from your website once it was on the JC that would be fine. You could put a link on your website to the product at DTRPG.

The JC is for RQG, RQ Classic and HQ but as long your creation could conceivably be used by players of these games, and doesn't reference any other rule system, fine. Prohibited content includes comics or fiction (unless short vignettes in roleplaying game materials). A fundamental stipulation of all community content on DTRP is you can't offer what's there elsewhere, so no, not what the JC is for.

Here are more new Call of Cthulhu community titles in the Miskatonic Repository on DriveThruRPG! Great work by Genevieve Colter of Dark Trapezohedron Productions, who has uploaded four titles, and congratulations to G.A. Patrick, whose creation Fever: Death Toll has been previewed on Geek Native and reviewed on Roleplayer's Chronicle. It is great to see Miskatonic Repository creations getting coverage in the wider RPG-Gaming media like this! https://www.chaosium.com/blogmiskatonic-monday-some-august-releases-for-the-repository It's Miskatonic Monday again, so here are some excellent new Call of Cthulhu community content titles to peruse in the Miskatonic Repository! https://www.chaosium.com/blogmiskatonic-monday-more-new-titles-in-august Among a host of interesting Call of Cthulhu community content titles, there are two firsts for the Miskatonic Repository: the first English translation from the popular Polish 'Zgrozy' series; and the first Cthulhu Invictus title. Hopefully the first of many for both! https://www.chaosium.com/blogmiskatonic-monday-eclectic-offerings-in-september

Over on the RuneQuest forum we've got a preview post up about the JONSTOWN COMPENDIUM, our forthcoming community content resource for Glorantha on DriveThruRPG (very similar to our existing Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu and Explorer's Society for 7th Sea). The post contains details if you're interested in contributing, and having your material up and ready on launch or soon after.

Over on the RuneQuest forum we've got a preview post up about the JONSTOWN COMPENDIUM, our forthcoming community content resource for Glorantha on DriveThruRPG (very similar to our existing Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu and Explorer's Society for 7th Sea). The post contains details if you're interested in contributing, and having your material up and ready on launch or soon after.

Exciting news: later this month we're going to be launching the Jonstown Compendium on DriveThruRPG. Here is a preview of what it is all about: The JONSTOWN COMPENDIUM is an official online collection of user-made content, allowing creators to sell their own original RuneQuest and HeroQuest Glorantha (Questworlds) material set in Greg Stafford's mythic universe of Glorantha. Creators can make money from their published community content, or make it freely available – it is entirely up to the creator. Jonstown Compendium content can include original scenarios, background material, cults, mythology, stats for NPCs and monsters, and your own versions of handouts for official RuneQuest and HeroQuest Glorantha campaigns. Material must be set in Greg Stafford’s World of Glorantha – although YGWV ("Your Glorantha Will Vary") applies, and nothing published in the Jonstown Compendium should be regarded as "canon". Jonstown Compendium creations must be in English. We may add other languages later. Your content can use any any rules and setting materials from the books and materials published by Chaosium including RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha, RuneQuest Classic (RQ2), and HeroQuest Glorantha or the forthcoming QuestWorlds SRD. We hope to be able to include 13th Age Glorantha in the Jonstown Compendium at a later date. Rules from the Mongoose or Design Mechanism editions of RuneQuest, or other variant d100 rulesets (e.g. Mythras, OpenQuest, Revolution D100, etc) are not permitted. Other prohibited content includes comics or fiction (unless short vignettes in roleplaying game materials), software or apps, crowd-funded content, or products that infringe on the intellectual property of others (obviously). Creator resources include Word and Indesign templates will be made available for Jonstown Compendium creators. The program is very similar to our existing Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu and Explorer's Society for 7th Sea. BRP Central folks: If you are interested in contributing to the Jonstown Compendium, and would like your creation to feature on launch or soon after, contact me at mob@chaosium.com and I can forward you the User Guidelines and templates etc so you can get started. nb we're not posting this material publicly yet in case we or DTRPG/OneBookShelf need to make any alterations.

Here's some more Malleus Monstrorum work-in-progress by Loïc. Ghouls!

Now we have Steve Perrin back on board as a creative consultant, we are looking at bringing SuperWorld back, at least as something like we did for RuneQuest Classic. Indeed, George RR Martin's popular Wild Cards stories stemmed from what he describes as a "two-year-long role playing orgy that engulfed not only me, but the rest of my Albuquerque gaming circle as well." And the game they were playing was Chaosium's SuperWorld. More from GRR about his addiction to Superworld here. Every time we shared Greg Stafford's story about punking Ken Rolston at a convention about his Bad Medicine for Dr Drugs, we'd get a spike of sales...

As Steve says in his post, "Ray Turney created the initial magic system for RuneQuest and most of his spells are still in every spell caster's compendium." The design work that Steve and Ray did back in 1978 was also the beginnings of BRP (as RQ indeed came first). Great to see them both at the same table again after so many years...

@Jason Durall and @Jeff presided at the official launch of BERLIN THE WICKED CITY in the city of Berlin itself last night. In addition to copies of the book and many other Chaosium titles, Otherland Bookshop also laid on an excellent selection of Berlin-based cocktails - prost zum wohl! (thanks to @Pixellance for some of these pics)