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We talk to all licensees at the conceptual stage to ensure projects don't overlap or compete with stuff being done or planned by other licensees, or by Chaosium itself. This is pretty standard practice everywhere, and is to everyone's benefit and protection. Usually this is just a brief discussion with the relevant line editor. Note: an exception to this is community content (the Miskatonic Repository, and soon, the Jonstown Compendium). There you can literally do what you want, and there is no approval process whatsoever - we don't view, vet, or approve anything in community content before it goes live. Just follow the guidelines.

Yes. Hence posting it here in the RQ forum too.

A young Vingan runelord has stopped to ask the way from a settler of Sartarian heritage from Zola Fel valley.

Carcosa Con 2020 has announced its first guest of honour - Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu maestro Mike Mason.

Thanks, fixed!

Exciting news! - our friends at Critical Role are doing a Call of Cthulhu one-shot in July! As announced in Critical Role's Summer Programming Schedule: On Monday, July 29th, Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe is stepping behind the screen once again as the Keeper of Arcane Lore for a special Call of Cthulhu one-shot, sponsored by our friends at Chaosium. Investigators Travis Willingham, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Ashly Burch, Phil Lamarr, and Erika Ishii will attempt to survive Taliesin’s harrowing scenario, which is set in a decadent 1890s London. We’re incredibly excited to explore this classic RPG of cosmic horror through a fresh lens. VOD will be available immediately for our Twitch channel subscribers and will be available on our YouTube channel on Wednesday, July 31st. The Keeper of Arcane Lore is Taliesin Jaffe @executivegoth. The Investigators are @WillingBlam, @VoiceOfOBrien, @Marisha_Ray, @ashly_burch, @phillamarr, & @erikaishii

Over at our Redbubble store we've just added new maps to our Gloranthan Cartography collection: New Pavis, the Big Rubble, the River of Cradles, and more. https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/collections/586570-glorantha-cartography And right now, they (and everything else) are 20% off: use the code DEAL20.

Great news - Windows and Mac versions of Six Ages, the 'spiritual successor' to King of Dragon Pass, announced and on the way... https://www.gog.com/game/six_ages_ride_like_the_wind

"Each year before Gen Con we always had a face-to-face board meeting with Greg at Chaosium HQ in Ann Arbor. Sadly, this will be the first year that doesn't happen. But we are very fortunate to have Suzanne Stafford and Alisha Hammer joining us on the board. In what turned out to be his final years, as company founder Greg was delighted to see Chaosium returning to its creativity, artistry and craftsmanship of old. Suzanne and Alisha are as keen to honour, sustain and build on Greg's legacy as we are." #WeAreAllUs https://www.chaosium.com/blogchaosium-board-of-directors-meets-for-the-first-time-since-greg-staffords-passing

Our newest Call of Cthulhu release Berlin: the Wicked City is due out in hardback next month*, but there's already been a lot of interest in Loïc Muzy's beautiful and evocative cover art. This image is now available as wall art, clothing, accessories and more at Chaosium's Redbubble store. *buy the PDF now and use it straightaway, and you get the full price of the PDF off the physical copy when it is out.

No worries, I didn't read it that way!

The leatherette will be available for anyone to purchase, along with the regular hardback version. They are getting shipped together, and we will have (limited) copies available from all three of our warehouses (US, UK, Aus) next month. If you buy the PDF from Chaosium.com beforehand, you will be able to apply your coupon off the cost of the leatherette instead of the regular hardback. Going forward, we are intending to do special leatherette versions of all releases (over a certain page count). We may even do a small run of leatherettes of existing 7th edition releases too, when it comes round to doing a reprint of them. We'll see what the interest is for the Berlin book. (We are proud of the Berlin book though, it has come out very nicely.)

Jason Thompson aka Mockman is a comic artist and illustrator, well known to RPG circles. You may have seen his popular series of walkthrough maps of classic Dungeons & Dragons modules ('Expedition to the Barrier Peaks', 'Tomb of Horrors', etc), enabling you to trace every step of the adventure. But did you know Mockman’s also a huge Call of Cthulhu fan? For his latest walkthrough, Jason has visited the infamous Corbitt house, setting of the classic Call of Cthulhuscenario ‘The Haunting’. This map follows the doomed path countless Investigators – perhaps even yourselves – have taken since Call of Cthulhu was first published in 1981. Sandy Petersen's ‘The Haunting’ has been in every edition of the game, and is currently available in the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Quickstart Rules. The Haunting Walkthrough Map is now available as wall art at Chaosium's Redbubble store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/works/39492215-the-haunting-walkthrough-map-by-jason-thompson The Haunting Walkthrough Map is ©2019 Chaosium Inc. All rights reserved.

Advance copies from the printer!—the rest are on their way by ship and will be available next month. In the mean time, pick up the PDF (http://bit.ly/2KZWODJ), and you get the full price of the PDF off the physical book when it is available.

Given that Glorantha looks "Earth-like", but clearly isn't, I think it is even more MGF to give a flat world a horizon analogous to our own, and come up with mythic = scientific explanations as to why that is so. Other questions to answer for a flat world that do not have prosaic terrestrial answers: why Glorantha has "gravity", how does Glorantha have an atmosphere, why is the sky blue, etc etc. But your YGMV.

What did the kid think of the game in the end? Great recounting of the tale, BTW.

The New York Review of Science Fiction on Glorantha and Greg Stafford, who looked at RPGS and saw in them "the potential for actual art."

"Glorantha is one of the richest and most vivid created worlds in fantasy, a world where everything from the dirt to the stars is literally made of mythology... (Greg) Stafford did more to advance the art form of role-playing games, and in more roles—as publisher, designer, editor, world-crafter, and inspiration—than anyone else after Gygax and Arneson." —EDITORIAL, The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 2019 https://www.nyrsf.com/2019/06/editorial-glorantha-another-magical-world.html

The crowdfunding campaign for RUNEQUEST: ADVENTURES DANS GLORANTHA (RQG in French) went live earlier today, and already 189% funded! (Funded in 90 minutes)https://www.gameontabletop.com/cf186/runequest.html

Here's some excellent ALONE AGAINST THE FLAMES actual play (audio), by first-time Call of Cthulhu player Adam Rowe, "a voice actor who plays Dungeons & Dragons":

Hey cool - for Free RPG Day LIFEHACKER suggests heading over to DTRPG's Miskatonic Repository to download "The Premiere of the King" (http://bit.ly/2MBQXXw), one of the new 'pay what you want' Call of Cthulhu releases there! https://lifehacker.com/how-to-participate-in-free-rpg-day-1835493595 And Geek Native notes that 'The Premier of the King' is also CURRENTLY in the Top 10 list of Free RPGs on DriveThruRPG ('pay-what-you-want' is counted as free): https://www.geeknative.com/66702/8948-free-rpgs-its-free-rpg-day Lining up the final details now. Later this month we hope.

klecser - you gave a great answer there to this commenter: Is this for real? It takes 7 videos and about 3 hours to make a character? Sounds like a complicated game. Many thanks for this excellent series!

Nicely done Bud and Pookie! [Note, in addition to being available as a free download and POD as stated in the review, a revised and full colour version of The Derelict (with new pre-gens) features in our 2018 release PETERSEN'S ABOMINATIONS. Available from Chaosium: http://bit.ly/2IsHdJ2.]