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Yes. Setting up the Critical Role game was nearly two years in the making, and everyone involved hopes it will not be a one-off. Right here on BRP Central!

In this blog post, long-time Glorantha fan Andrew Logan Montgomery explains why "In the thirty-six years I have been writing scenarios and running game sessions, Glorantha is the setting I return to most." He recounts (in no particular order) the core principles he comes back to time and time again to try and make Glorantha "Glorantha" for his players, regardless of game system used. https://andrewloganmontgomery.blogspot.com/2019/08/running-glorantha-some-thoughts.html TLDR: Glorantha is —A WORLD OF MYTH, NOT SCIENCE "It is not a fantasy setting that is world just like ours with a bit of magic added... the sun rises and sets because he was born, ascended to the throne of heaven, and then was killed and sent to the underworld." In Glorantha —EVERY ACT IS A MAGICAL AND MYTHICAL ACT "Nearly all acts of change and creation are magical because they call upon the myths underlying existence." In Glorantha —HISTORY REPEATS "History repeats for the same reason the seasons do; it all happened in the Gods Age." In Glorantha there is —GRITTY REALISM, AND THAT MEANS UNCOMFORTABLE SHADES OF GRAY "Gloranthan PCs come from cultures, they belong to communities, they have families, careers, and even cults."

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As soon as we have stocks in all three warehouses - waiting on the UK.

Fresh from receiving the Gold ENnie award for 'Best Adventure', Chaosium's Masks of Nyarlathotep has been nominated in the 2019 Dragon Awards in the Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Miniatures / Collectible Card / Role-Playing Game category. If you voted in previous Dragon Awards, you will get sent your ballot by email. If you haven't voted in the Dragon Awards before, you can sign up here until Friday, August 30th at 11:59PM (EDT). The winners will be announced at Dragon Con, August 29 – September 2, 2019 in Atlanta, GA (Labor Day weekend). Thanks to support of Call of Cthulhu fans, Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition won the inaugural Dragon Award in this category in 2016. Register to vote in the Dragon Con Awards here: https://application.dragoncon.net/dc_fan_awards_signup.php

There are no plans whatsoever for an 8th edition.

It was a DnD party, but we talked some Call of Cthulhu too... "Emerging seemingly unscathed from the horrors of 'The Shadow of the Crystal Palace', Taliesin Jaffe @executivegoth and Erika Ishi @erikaishii talked more Mythos madness with Chaosium's Neil and MOB at Critical Role's DnD Beyond Party on Saturday night at Gen Con."

Wow, fan artists really got inspired by the recent Critical Role Call of Cthulhu one-shot, 'The Shadow of the Crystal Palace'! We didn't know that was a thing, but we love it! https://critrole.com/fan-art-gallery-shadow-of-the-crystal-palace

Over 570,000 views now: lots of new people experiencing Call of Cthulhu for the first time

Chaosium would to thank and recognise everyone in the creative teams behind each of our 2019 ENnie-winning titles. All their names are listed at the link: https://www.chaosium.com/blog2019-ennies-thanks-to-all-the-creative-teams

The Stars were Right for Chaosium and friends at the 2019 ENnie Awards tonight! Chaosium won awards in every category it was nominated, including Fan's Choice Best Publisher. Our licensees, partners, and friends in the Call of Cthulhu Mythos also won awards in every category nominated, including the HP Lovecraft Historical Society winning Product of the Year for the Masks of Nyarlathotep Gamer Prop Set. Here are the awards Chaosium, licensees, partners and friends won at the awards: Best Adventure —GOLD: Masks of Nyarlathotep (Chaosium Inc.) Best Aid/Accessory - Non-Digital —GOLD: Masks of Nyarlathotep Gamer Prop Set (H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society) Best Art, Cover —GOLD: Call of Cthulhu - Terror Australis 2E (Chaosium Inc.) Best Electronic Book —SILVER: Fear's Sharp Little Needles (Stygian Fox Publishing) Best Interior Art —GOLD: RuneQuest - Roleplaying in Glorantha (Chaosium) Best Monster/Adversary —GOLD: Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos for 5E (Petersen Games) Best Online Content —GOLD: Seth Skorkowsky Best RPG Related Product —GOLD: Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: Masks of Nyarlathotep (H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society) —SILVER: Miskatonic University: Restricted Collection (Chaosium Inc.) Best Rules —GOLD: Call of Cthulhu Starter Set (Chaosium Inc.) Best Setting —SILVER: Call of Cthulhu - Terror Australis 2e (Chaosium Inc.) Best Supplement —GOLD: The Glorantha Sourcebook (CHaosium Inc.) —SILVER: The 7th Ed. Guide to Cthulhu Invictus (Golden Goblin Press) Product of the Year —GOLD: Masks of Nyarlathotep Gamer Prop Set (H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society) Fan’s Choice, Best Publisher —Chaosium Inc. Many thanks to the ENnies judges for shortlisting our products, and the members of the Chaosium tribe, fans, and supporters for your support. As Chaosium President Rick Meints said in his acceptance speech for Fan's Favorite Best Publisher, we couldn't do it without you. #weareallus

Wow, more than 207,000 views in a little over 24 hours! : there's phenomenal interest in Critical Role's 'The Shadow of the Crystal Palace' Call of Cthulhu adventure on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0uhqZdJ8swQ

Helping unpack one of our pallets for Gen Con, Mike has found there are mysterious forces which don't want people reading The Grand Grimoire of Cthulhu Mythos Magic. As our booth manager Ellie says of the incident, "We are keeping this mangled corpse at the booth as this year's ritual sacrifice. Thankfully I don't have to stab any of the staff now. Always the hardest part of running a booth."

Watch Critical Role play Call of Cthulhu here:

Strange things are afoot in London’s Crystal Palace, and it’s up to these unwitting heroes to rise against it with all their sanity and might! : Watch Critical Role play Call of Cthulhu right now, on Twitch TV: https://www.twitch.tv/criticalrole

About as believable as an escaped slave from the West Indies ending up in Iceland. Which happened.

All set for a gaslight-era mystery of malevolent proportions: our friends Critical Role are playing 'Shadow of the Crystal Palace', their special Call of Cthulhu one-shot, tomorrow night at 7pm PST

Such an NPC could be inspired by: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-27/first-black-settler-in-iceland-hans-jonathan-slave-saga/11228536

https://www.chaosium.com/blogstatement-about-metaarcades-cthulhu-chronicles We regret to announce that the Cthulhu Chronicles mobile interactive fiction game is no longer available. Unfortunately Metaarcade, the company that produced it, is no longer in business.

We'll be selling special preview copies of this book at Gen Con at our booth (#829). Jeff Richard says "The Red Book of Magic has every Rune and spirit magic in the core rules, the Cults Book, Trollpak, and many more. It is a foundational document for me, as it gives me pretty much every Rune and spirit magic spell of any cult of any size in Genertela." Quantity is limited!

Promo for the forthcoming Critical Role Call of Cthulhu one-shot:

In the latest survey, CALL OF CTHULHU is the third most popular game played on virtual tabletop Roll 20 (after DnD & Pathfinder): https://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6508-Orr-Group-s-Roll20-Stats-Q2-2019-Use-New-Method-Cthulhu-Up-D-D-PF-Down Interesting factoid: 'One interesting facet of the Call of Cthulhu rise is that the average game length is about a quarter of that of other systems -- "We found that they have an average playtime of 11.9 hours, compared to 40 hour average game times for other systems on these charts."'

That's why games in fringe places like Prax or Pavis or Sun County work well as stepping off points: the players (and GM) don't need know a lot about the world... Thought to be a big reason of why plain vanilla "Human Fighter" is the most popular character class by far on DnD Beyond.

Call of Cthulhu comes to MOAB - the Mother Of All Battles convention in October! MOAB is Sydney’s premier wargaming convention, run annually on the October long weekend since 1990. Call of Cthulhu is running on Monday 7th October 2019, 10.00AM - 3.30PM. Walk-ups are welcome, but you can also register to play here. Every player goes into a lottery draw for a Call of Cthulhu Starter Set (if there are more than 20 players then a copy of Terror Australis will be added). MOAB takes place at the Sylvania Heights Community and Youth Club in Sylvania, Sydney NSW Australia. Many thanks to the Keepers from the Cult of Chaos who will be assisting with the staging of this event, which brings Call of Cthulhu to a new "Cthulhu curious" audience (wargamers!) https://www.chaosium.com/blogcall-of-cthulhu-at-the-mother-of-all-battles-convention-7-october-sydney-australia

For the next 8 days, some 362 Chaosium titles are 25% off in DriveThruRPG's Christmas in July Sale. This includes many Call of Cthulhu Classic, RuneQuest Classic, 7th Sea, Pendragon, HeroQuest, and BRP titles, and the following Call of Cthulhu 7th edition titles: Cold Harvest, Cthulhu Through the Ages, Dead Light, Down Darker Trails, The Grand Grimoire of Cthulhu Mythos Magic, Horror on the Orient Express, Nameless Horrors, Petersen's Abominations, Reign of Terror, Ripples From Carcosa, S. Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors, The Two-Headed Serpent. http://bit.ly/2MeTdPc