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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.]

Glorantha is flat but does have a horizon—in-world "scientific" explanation here, with diagrams: [TL/DR - light, being a manifestation of Aether and thus properly belonging in the Sky World does not travel in straight lines. The elements always seek their own proper level in the bubble that is Glorantha, thus light tends to curve upward slightly as it flits along at a great pace. This is why you see the top of a mast as a ship approaches, then the sails, then the body.]

Call of Cthulhu is already out in a Korean translation; its crowdfunding campaign was the biggest game-related crowdfunding campaign in Korea to date. The Korean publisher Dayspring recently crowdfunded Masks of Nyarlathotep to great success too:

Tickets are now on sale for Carcosa Con, taking place in the atmospheric Czocha Castle near the Polish-Czech border on March 27-29, 2020. "Call of Cthulhu thrives on atmosphere, isolation and shadows. CarcosaCon at Czocha Castle has all that, plus incredible hosts and wonderful fellow gamers from around the world. It is an unforgettable experience, and the best possible place to lose your sanity for a weekend!"—Call of Cthulhu writer Mark Morrison. CarcosaCon is organized by Black Monk Games, publisher of the Polish edition of Call of Cthulhu. Chaosium is proud to be the Strategic Partner for this event! Tickets are limited to 350 places. https://carcosacon.com

We are excited that renowned French novelist, film director, and Eisner Award-winning comic book artist JOANN SFAR is contributing illustrations for the new French edition by Studio Deadcrows:

Arclight, publishers of the immensely popular Japanese version of Call of Cthulhu, have announced they will be producing Japanese and Chinese versions of Chaosium's Reiner Knizia board game Miskatonic University - the Restricted Collection. (And Call of Cthulhu in Chinese!) Arclight had demo versions of Miskatonic University to play at their Shanghai Wonder Festival Stand, and said it received "a fantastic reception". More details at the link: Some pics of the new version at Shanghai Wonder Festival last weekend:

Big news at the Shanghai Wonder Festival this weekend! Chaosium licensees Arclight, publishers of the most popular tabletop roleplaying game in Japan - CALL OF CTHULHU - have announced the Chinese edition is coming. Plus, Japanese and Chinese versions of the MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY: THE RESTRICTED COLLECTION board game too! https://www.chaosium.com/blogchinese-edition-of-call-of-cthulhu-and-miskatonic-university-board-game-announced Arclight are of course the publishers of the Japanese edition of Call of Cthulhu, the most popular tabletop roleplaying game in Japan.

The MISKATONIC REPOSITORY is going from strength-to-strength! Here are recent contributions from Call of Cthulhu creators from around the world - check them out on DriveThruRPG!: https://www.chaosium.com/blogmiskatonic-monday-a-whole-lot-of-new-community-content-titles-to-enjoy

Our friends the master prop makers at TYPE 40 are making RuneQuest swords, modelled on the sword from the cover of the RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha Quickstart - here's the first one, fit for Rune Lord!

67. After the horrors of the Iron Crusade, the surviving atheistic Ingareens gratefully accepted Talar Barat as their new overlord. Under the guidance of the Talar's wizards and by carefully mimicking his followers, Ingareen society has adapted many elements of Brithini culture. As a consequence, they too have taken on a measure of longevity, at the price of certain vitality and innovation. (T) 68. Once Ingareen ingenuity helped spawn the hubristic mechanical abominations of the Machine God Zistor. Now however, Ingareen originality tends to be directed to the more abstract—and harmless—arts of speculative philosophy, mathematics and game theory. (B — Leonardo the Scientist is perhaps the greatest counter-example, and he takes care to never make more than one of his physical creations, lest he be branded a Zistorite.) 69. Like the Ingareens, the neighboring Esvularing tribe were once atheists too, actively supporting the construction of the Machine God Zistor. But for them, the spectacular fall of the Clanking City led to a henotheistic revelation, and rather than take on the Brithini way, the Esvularings embraced the Aeolian variation of Malkionism, which holds that the Orlanthi gods are but emanations of the Invisible God. (T/F, R) 70. The Esvularings have a long-standing alliance with God Forgot, particularly the people of the neighboring Bandori valley. As the Brithini way of life is not especially productive here, many Esvularings come to labor for them in God Forgot. They are well compensated by the Talar, and look on him reverently as their Godfather. (T)

Love it. They probably run the caper out of here: 66. Doctor Hierogamos’s House of Pleasure is a smaller establishment than the Lupenar, but is famous for its mermaids. Current aquatic attractions include the so-called Zabdamar Princess of Kylerela and the fantastically obese Ouori-girl. (R — the Ouori-girl really is one of the walrus-folk, far from her home in the remote reaches of the Banthe Ocean, but in reality the so-called "Princess of Kylerela" is just an ordinary Ludoch-woman from nearby Seapolis with some magical augmentations and a fanciful costume.)

65. Red’s Globster on the Main Strip is a cheap and popular “all you can eat” buffet (provided you’re happy eating endless portions of vaguely fish-like material cut into various shapes then deep-fried or boiled). The proprietor “Red” hearkens from the Lunar Empire, and keeps a live walktapus out the back. Pieces are continuously hacked off for the pot. His first walktapus apparently escaped in the confusion during Harrek’s visit, and he’s only recently been able to import a replacement. Just what was Red serving up in the intervening time? (A) Thanks, have added to the above entry!