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New for Pulp Cthulhu! A COLD FIRE WITHIN: A Mind-Bending Campaign by Christopher Smith Adair. Available now in PDF. Purchase direct from Chaosium.com and you get the full price of the PDF off the physical book when it is released later this year. https://www.chaosium.com/a-cold-fire-within-pdf Also available from DriveThruRPG: http://bit.ly/2EF1xqi

[Wearing Moderator Hat]: I moved the discussion here. No one is being silenced. However this forum is the appropriate venue to discuss the Moongoose version, for those that wish to.

Yes, there is a license/ownership issue. Please do not.

A wonderful gathering of Call of Cthulhu creators and devotees today at the TERROR AUSTRALIS launch! It was a pleasure to have so many along to celebrate the extraordinary longstanding contribution Australian writers have made to the Call of Cthulhu RPG and wider Cthulhu mythos.

Final hours for the Disk of R'lyeh Kickstarter!

Congrats to our friends over at r/Lovecraft on reddit reaching 100K subs! To help celebrate, they've got three digital Call of Cthulhu Starter Sets to give away—just leave a comment over there to the question, "What is an adventure hook that you'd like to play, have played, written, or read?"

We will have copies of TERROR AUSTRALIS available for purchase at the official Chaosium book launch tomorrow - AUD$60.00 (cash or card). And you can get your copy signed by the authors attending! 1.30-3.00PM: Woodlands Hotel, 84-88 Sydney Rd Coburg, VIC Australia. This is an event celebrating the extraordinary longstanding contribution Australian writers have made to the Call of Cthulhu RPG and wider Cthulhu mythos. All are welcome - more details: http://bit.ly/2VKhHoc.

Here's some 13th AGE GLORANTHA Actual Play, for your listening pleasure. —EPISODE 1: http://bit.ly/2HQHAxz —EPISODE 2: http://bit.ly/2JCmpTu The adventure being played is 'Skyfall', as featured in the 13th Age zine Escalation (available free here: http://bit.ly/2wgAVaz)

Mark Morrison has written: In the 1920s Australia gave the world the strange Cthulhu statue in the Sydney Museum, and Vegemite. These things are clearly unrelated. There’s much more 1920s info in the fantastic new edition of Terror Australis from Chaosium Inc., for Call of Cthulhu. Penny & I originally wrote this in the 1980s with Lynn Willis and Larry DiTillio, and now it has been brilliantly updated by an all star team assembled by Adelaide legend Dean Engelhardt, and including our friends Marion Anderson, Phil Anderson, Geoff Gillan, Lynne Hardy, John Hughes, Mike Mason, Vian Lawson, Brian M. Sammons, Darren Watson, Richard Watts & more. Strewth! Melbourne chums, Michael O'Brien has organised a launch party this Sunday arvo in Coburg, all welcome! (details above)

The trophy for the CTHULHU MASTERS 2019, to be played at UK Games Expo in Birmingham next week (May 31 - June 2). Many thanks to the Keepers from the Cult of Chaos who will GMing for this event: Mik Parkin, Carol Tierney, Matthew Sanderson, Jayson Green, CJ Romer. The final will be presided over by Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition co-author Paul Fricker. BTW, there are still some slots left in the 2019 CTHULHU MASTERS! If you'd like to be the running for this magnificent trophy, register at the link (search for "Cthulhu Masters"):https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/bookevents.php?category=rpg

"The RuneQuest: Glorantha Bestiary opens up the world of Glorantha and Dragon Pass... Its combination of background and stats, friends and foes, supports Game Master and player alike and together serve to make (it) an essential companion to RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha."—Reviews from R’lyeh. https://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2019/05/gloranthan-friends-and-foes.html

Our friends at TYPE 40 have forged a sword - a RuneQuest sword, inspired by the weapon being wielded on the cover of the RuneQuest Quickstart. We hope to have this wonderful weapon on display at Gen Con.

RQ Companion now also available at DriveThruRPG: http://bit.ly/2YAgDFd

1983's RUNEQUEST COMPANION is now back in PDF, fully remastered and true to the original printing:https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-companion-pdf

Escalation, the 13th Age fanzine, has a new special issue dedicated to 13th Age Glorantha. It features a scenario for 13G, "Under Pressure" by Ulf Bengtsson, and comes with five pregen characters. Download load it for free at the link: https://escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2019/05/escalation-special-under-pressure.html

We did a cheerful Starter Set swap with Wizards of the Coast's Mike Mearls. The package from WotC has arrived just in time for #DnDLive2019 - but which one to start with???

As befits its antiquity, Sun County (Prax) has very powerful wyters - the four Guardians of the different directions. (There was also once as "Guardian of Above" and a "Guardian of Below", both of which make a reappearance in the post 1621 time-frame). Under RQG, I think the Sun County regalia would hold pools of Yelmalio rune points that the listed rune spells could be cast with.

"Greg Stafford, who had already given us Glorantha, wrote his love letter to Sir Thomas Malory and 15th century Arthurian Romance. If Call of Cthulhu was Chaosium's greatest commercial success, this game was their greatest artistic one... If you like your games literary, thoughtful, and thrilling, Pendragon needs to be on your shelf."—Andrew Logan Montgomery reviews the 5.2 edition of Greg Stafford's self-avowed 'masterpiece'. https://andrewloganmontgomery.blogspot.com/2019/05/king-arthur-pendragon-52.html

With the imminent print release of Shadows over Stillwater, the second release in our Down Darker Trails line, we spoke with Chaosium president and head of production Rick Meints about what's happening in our "Weird West" RPG series: https://www.chaosium.com/blogrick-goes-west-and-weird-with-down-darker-trails

Call of Cthulhu's PETERSEN'S ABOMINATIONS has been nominated for BEST RPG ADVENTURE in the UK Games Expo 2019 Awards. Congratulations to Sandy Petersen, Mike Mason and the artists and other creators of Petersen's Abominations. And RuneQuest was also nominated for BEST RPG and 13th Age Glorantha for BEST RPG EXPANSION too - wonderful! The winners will be announced on Sunday 2nd June at 3pm at UKGE. There is also a People's Choice award that can be voted for using the UKGE app. https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/shortlist.php?

13th AGE GLORANTHA has been nominated for BEST RPG EXPANSION in the UK Games Expo 2019 Awards. Congratulations to Rob Heinsoo, Jonathan M Tweet and all the creative team and artists involved! Grateful thanks too, to the memory of Greg Stafford, without whom there'd be no Glorantha. And RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha was nominated for BEST RPG, and Petersen's Abominations for BEST RPG ADVENTURE - wonderful news! The winners will be announced on Sunday 2nd June at 3pm at UKGE. There is also a People's Choice award that can be voted on using the UKGE app. https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/shortlist.php?

Great news for Glorantha - not only has RUNEQUEST - ROLEPLAYING IN GLORANTHA has been nominated for BEST RPG in the UK Games Expo 2019 Awards, 13th AGE GLORANTHA was nominated for BEST RPG EXPANSION! Congratulations to all the creative teams and artists involved! Grateful thanks too, to the memory of Greg Stafford, without whom there'd be no RQ or Glorantha. (And Petersen's Abominations for Call of Cthulhu has been shortlisted for BEST RPG ADVENTURE - more wonderful news!) The winners will be announced on Sunday 2nd June at 3pm at UKGE. There is also a People's Choice award that can voted on using the UKGE app. https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/shortlist.php?

RUNEQUEST - ROLEPLAYING IN GLORANTHA has been nominated for BEST RPG in the UK Games Expo 2019 Awards. Congratulations to Jason Durall, Jeff Richard, Steve Perrin and all the creative team and artists involved! Grateful thanks too, to the memory of Greg Stafford, without whom there'd be no RQ or Glorantha. And 13th Age Glorantha was nominated for BEST RPG EXPANSION, and Petersen's Abominations for BEST RPG ADVENTURE - wonderful news! The winners will be announced on Sunday 2nd June at 3pm at UKGE. There is also a People's Choice award, in which UKGE attendees can vote using an app: https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/shortlist.php?

As part of the FG Unity Kickstarter campaign (currently at 993% of funding!), they've got a competition going to win the FGU Call of Cthulhu Essentials Pack (a Kickstarter Exclusive Bundle) and an Ultimate License to run it with: http://www.fantasygrounds.com/home/FantasyGroundsUnityPromo_CallOfCthulhu.php

GEN CON event tickets will be released for purchase by the public on May 19th. With our support of crack team of GMs and Keepers from the Cult of Chaos, our director of organised play Todd has out together a massive program of games in our dedicated 20 table event space. If you're coming to Gen Con, book early from May 19th: these events are all likely to fill fast! First off, conventions scenarios we've run at Gen Con before and will be running again this year, in #ThrowbackThursday: https://www.chaosium.com/bloggen-con-preview-1-chaosiums-massive-program-of-scheduled-games Here are the brand new convention scenarios we'll be debuting this year at Gen Con: https://www.chaosium.com/bloggen-con-preview-2-new-convention-scenarios-debuting-at-gen-con And, as part of our massive program of games at Gen Con this year, we're featuring the following VIP Creator's Series sessions: https://www.chaosium.com/bloggen-con-preview-3-chaosium-creator-series-vip-sessions And with Call of Cthulhu continuing to be one of top games with the highest unmet demand at Gen Con year after year, it's wonderful that there are many groups and individuals committed to running Chaosium games at the convention. Some of these other GM groups we know will be running their own Chaosium games at Gen Con this year are listed here (more are certain to be added to the program both before May 19 when event registration goes live, and in the lead-up to the con): https://www.chaosium.com/bloggen-con-preview-4-other-groups-running-chaosium-games-as-call-of-cthulhu-continues-to-be-one-of-top-games-with-the-highest-unmet-demand/